UGLY: Seething Sectarian Bigots Emerge From Labor's Left to Pour Hatred on DLP // Peter Kavanagh Emerges As Very Highly Credentialed MP

Disgraced former Victorian Premier John Cain, whose administration very nearly destroyed the Labor brand in Victoria as he nearly bankrupted the state, has been doing the rounds of their ABC and anyone else who'll listen. He reckons the DLP are a "sectarian snake":

JOSIE TAYLOR: John Cain was the Victorian Premier from 1982 to 1990. His father, John Cain Senior, lost his position as premier in 1955 as a direct result of the DLP.

John Cain Junior describes the DLP as right-wing and hysterical, but says while he's alarmed the party is making a comeback, he doubts it will have much impact.

JOHN CAIN JUNIOR: The Government will be able to get its legislation through, because it'll be supported by the other parties, I would think, most times.

It's the way the system has worked this time, and it's to be deplored.

JOSIE TAYLOR: If there's no real impact, though, as you say, is the surprise and the outrage of the DLP's entrance back into politics just a matter of bad blood?

JOHN CAIN JUNIOR: No, it's more than that. I lived through all that in my earlier days. And yes, there's memories along, but it isn't just that, it's more that, as I said right at the outset, the sectarian snake we thought had been tucked away for good, it's out again, and that's a bad thing for politics.

The only one raising the sectarian fist here is the former Premier. And it was sectarian bigots like his old man who substantially contributed to Labor's greatest crisis and most disgraceful episode.

The ABC prattles on with a total lie from some nutbag RMIT communist academic with an appropriate surname re-writing history:

BENNO ENGELS: Well, it's an incredible historical irony, because the DLP in the mid 1950s helped to destroy the Victorian Labor Party, and also helped do that federally for Labor, and the DLP helped to keep Labor out of power in Victoria for 27 years.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WITH THE DLP
Let's get it right.

The people who formed the DLP were the more than half of the members of the Victorian branch who were expelled from the ALP by a Leftist coalition led by Doc Evatt. In one despicable move two thirds of the branches in Victoria were expelled. It was Labor's Darkest Hour.

Those of an older generation in the ALP might forget this and focus on the carnage that followed where clearly both sides committed atrocities on the other. But that is the simple truth.

They were expelled. Quite improperly. Totally insanely. Their crime? Getting organised to combat and defeat a rising tide of communism within trade unions at the time. And in so going offending the ego of Federal Leader Nutcase Doc Evatt

They should have been awarded ALP medals for that valuable service not treated like outcasts.

But they were expelled in the ugliest and dodgiest of circumstances. So dodgy were the expulsions in terms of due process that the Supreme Court held that the DLP was actually legally the correct ALP. They got to keep the minutes and the assets and all.

And they continued basically as the DLP as a payback and a protest about the extreme left domination of the ALP.

It wasn't that long after the Split that they contemplated a merger with the ALP. But it never quite happened.

LABOR'S DARKEST DAYS OF THE SPLIT: WHAT WOULD IT MEAN NOW?
That's what caused the weakening of the VIctorian branch, it's the equivalent of the expulsion of everyone in Labor Unity from the ALP today. Can you imagine that the Victorian branch would expel Alex Hicks, Steve Bracks, Rob Hulls, John Brumby, John Lenders, and Theo Theophanous? Then they'd move on to purge power-player supremoLizzie Blandthorn, Steve Conroy, Bill Shorten, Jeff Jackson, Michael Danby, Nicola Roxon (hey that's an idea), Kelvin Thomson, Steve Newnham, Anthony Byrne, Fiona Richardson, David Feeney, Richard Marles and Michael Donovan. That's essentially what happened in 1955. It is mind-boggling stuff.

Historians now say Doc Evatt who made this happen was clinically insane. Not even our favourite Socialist villain Senator Kim Il Carr, friend of fascist regimes, approaches his perfidy.

One NSW union secretary at the time wrote [PDF]


When Evatt started the sectarian attack in November 1954 there was no one who did not think then that Evatt was insane - there is no one around today that does not think so as well.

What happened back then was terrible. And what followed was terrible conduct from both sides. But we will not allow the left to continue to blame the victim of Doc Evatt's excesses for the whole debacle. Their fight against communism in trade unions was very important - much more so than we can probably realise now.

FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
Listen to Jim Macken's description of the brutal struggle:

When the Split came I was working on the waterfront as a union secretary and whatever you might like to think of unions in this day and age, the waterfront in the middle 1950's was no kindergarten. The fight to maintain the relevance of Catholic social teachings against a tide of communism backed with intimidation and violence was difficult if you will pardon an understatement. It was a ferocious engagement against a well organised enemy in his heartland.

I have seen grown men cry at the thought of their having to go before another stop-work meeting of wharfies and other unions and carry what was then an ALP banner. There were no Bishops and no priests to help us then and, as it was a lay milieu, we did not seek from them anything but their prayers. For that fight to succeed we knew we had to maintain a national organisation as the ballots and the struggle was a national struggle.

The struggle continues to this day. Marxist academics can spin events all they like. They have no more monopoly on writing history. The winners get to write it after all. The "Groupers" position on Communism was vindicated. Their position on the ALP needing to be moderate was vindicated.

THE AGE IS FULL OF LIARS AND FOOLS RUNNING SOCIALIST LEFT ERRANDS
The Aged in its puffed up pretension is seeking to denounce the ALP for a preference deal with the DLP. They even get rent a quote John "Sectarian Snake" Cain, Moaning Joan Kirner and others in on the act. Small problem. DLP preferences helped get the ALP elected in two seats, in south eastern metropolitan and in western metropolitan. The battle in Western Victoria is between Labor's Elaine Carbines and the DLP's Peter Kavanagh, so ALP preferences there are a non-issue.

So The Age's advertorial writer Farrah Tomazin is trying to blame the Labor Right for the DLP. It's so pathetically, obviously wrong that you'd think even they would avoid such a flagrantly flawed analysis. Mind you, she might be trying to catch up in the Dufus Stakes with her boss Paul Austin who predicted huge gains for the Liberals, a wiped out National Party and stated emphatically before election day that Ted Baillieu had "won the election campaign" and colleague Michael Bachelard who predicted his mate Stephen Mayne's party would win two seats in the upper house. They got 1% of the vote.

It looks like DLP candidate Peter Kavanagh will get elected by a narrow margin. And while leftist buffoons seek to denigrate him, check out his credentials, he is probably one of the most accomplished people to have ever been elected to the Legislative Council.

A teacher, lawyer, he speaks three Asian languages, has more degrees and diplomas than I've had hot dinners and is steeped in politics.

If he gets elected, Victoria should consider itself lucky to have Peter Kavanagh as one of its elected representatives. He will serve with distinction.

So John Cain, the bitter son of the pipe smoking sectarian Premier John Cain Sr., can stick that in his pipe and smoke it.

Game on.