{"id":13247,"date":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-liberal-colleague-drops-an-absolute-bomb-on-christopher-pyne\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"former-liberal-colleague-drops-an-absolute-bomb-on-christopher-pyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-liberal-colleague-drops-an-absolute-bomb-on-christopher-pyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Liberal Colleague Drops An Absolute Bomb On Christopher Pyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cory Bernardi has launched an astonishing attack on Liberal frontbencher Chris Pyne, calling him a \u201ccancerous growth\u201d.<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking on Sky News on Wednesday, Bernardi said of Pyne:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cHe has been the most destructive, cancerous growth within the Liberal party. He is solely responsible for the lack of success in South Australia because he doesn\u2019t care about policy, he doesn\u2019t care about principle, he only cares about power. He will destroy the wellbeing of the body in order to cement him or one of his little gang into a position of influence.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou go through his track record in federal parliament he\u2019s never demonstrated loyalty to anything. He\u2019s never had a capacity to prosecute an argument or a policy\u2026 he is such a brutal player that people continue to keep him in the inner circle in the hope that he\u2019ll be the crocodile that eats them last.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHe is terrible. I\u2019ve know him seen he was seven &#8212; he was a dreadful bloke when he was seven and I\u2019m telling you he\u2019s getting worse.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/corybernardi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@corybernardi<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpyne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cpyne<\/a> has been a &#39;destructive, cancerous growth&#39; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiberalAus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LiberalAus<\/a> Party&#8230; &#39;he only cares about power&#39;. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pmlive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pmlive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AuLPkifhgB\">pic.twitter.com\/AuLPkifhgB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsAust\/status\/925674944796561408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Bernardi has launched an astonishing attack on Liberal frontbencher Chris Pyne, calling him a \u201ccancerous growth\u201d. Speaking on Sky News on Wednesday, Bernardi said of Pyne: \u201cHe has been the most destructive, cancerous growth within the Liberal party. He is solely responsible for the lack of success in South Australia because he doesn\u2019t care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Liberal Colleague Drops An Absolute Bomb On Christopher Pyne - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-liberal-colleague-drops-an-absolute-bomb-on-christopher-pyne\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Liberal Colleague Drops An Absolute Bomb On Christopher Pyne\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cory Bernardi has launched an astonishing attack on Liberal frontbencher Chris Pyne, calling him a \u201ccancerous growth\u201d. 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