Oakeshott and Windsor ‘sold out’: Truss


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Federal Nationals leader Warren Truss has continued the attack on independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor at the party’s state conference, saying the MPs had “destroyed” any illusion independents could be “some kind of honest broker in politics”.

Echoing statements made to the conference by NSW Nationals leader Andrew Stoner on Friday, Mr Truss said the landslide at the NSW election in March, where independents were defeated by the Nationals in a number of seats, showed voters had rejected the “so-called new paradigm” of Mr Oakeshott and Mr Windsor.

“The two independents in federal Labor’s pocket, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, have destroyed the independent brand and any illusion that independents can be some kind of honest broker in politics,” Mr Truss told delegates on Saturday at Port Macquarie, on the NSW mid-north coast.

“The fact that the Nationals picked up seats from both independents and Labor is telling. The spectre of the carbon tax hung heavy over those events in March and has been reverberating around the state and the nation ever since.

“Both Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor sold out their core constituencies to support Labor, and people are not happy.”

Mr Stoner, who yesterday refused to rule out a move to federal politics to contest Mr Oakeshott’s NSW seat of Lyne, described the two federal independents as “turncoats” for supporting the Gillard government.

“These two blokes told their electorates that they were conservative independents and then they turned around and gave them a Labor-Greens government and a killer carbon tax,” Mr Stoner said.

“These are not the sort of people you want to have alongside you in the trenches – you simply can’t trust them.”

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