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May 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A senior Labor figure says he expects embattled MP Craig Thomson to ask parliament to leave him alone so that he can carry out his electoral responsibilities.
Mr Thomson, suspended from the Labor caucus following a damning Fair Work Australia report about his time as national secretary of the Health Services Union, is expected to make a detailed statement to parliament about midday on Monday.
Watch Craig Thomson’s speech live on ninemsn from 12pm (AEST)
FWA found the MP spent almost $6000 of HSU funds on escort services and about $270,000 on his 2007 election campaign.
Government whip Joel Fitzgibbon says he expects Mr Thomson to make a comprehensive statement.
“[He’ll say] he’s been a good Labor member doing good work in his constituency and that he should be left alone to continue to carry out his responsibilities as a parliamentarian,” Mr Fitzgibbon told ABC Radio.
“He’ll no doubt continue to proclaim his innocence [and argue] that his innocence or otherwise should be determined by normal legal processes, and not the politically charged House of Representatives-cum-kangaroo court.”
Opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne says Mr Thomson has a test to pass in parliament.
“Craig Thomson has to tell the truth today,” Mr Pyne told reporters in Canberra.
“He needs to be entirely honest to the parliament about the findings of the Fair Work Australia report.”
If the statement did not pass “the truth test”, there were actions the parliament could take.
“The greatest sanction the parliament can levy is to suspend a member of parliament,” Mr Pyne said, noting it had happened on three previous occasions.
The opposition intends referring the MP to the privileges committee over the non-disclosure of legal fees lent to him by the NSW branch of the ALP.
Independent MP Tony Windsor expects to still support the Gillard minority government by Monday’s end.
“I won’t be making judgments one way or the other on what he (Mr Thomson) says, unless he admits to everything that’s in the report and admits to a whole range of offences,” Mr Windsor told ABC Radio.
That was “highly unlikely”, Mr Windsor said.
Mr Windsor said he been through a similar situation when he was in the NSW state parliament at a time when then-premier Nick Greiner was the subject of findings by an independent corruption body.
“There were calls for the government to be brought down,” he said.
“I signed an agreement at the start of that and that agreement stood to the end of it. This one most probably will.”
Liberal frontbencher Scott Morrison said what really mattered was how the government and the crossbenchers responded to Mr Thomson’s statement.
“Will the Australian people believe his story? Who knows?” he told reporters in Canberra.
“I think Steven Spielberg will be taking interest in terms of the rights for the story.”
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