Troy Buswell Resigns

[the_great_she_elephant]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-10/premier-announces-buswell27s-future/5310162

what a waste! An intelligent man and one of the current WA Government's ablest politicians - but a loose cannon and constant liability in his personal behaviour.

[catsnknots]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

  we all need a big gate locked gate to avoid drunk driving charges it seems. what is it with these LNP types that makes them think  driving drunk acceptable ?

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I am not excusing the behaviour. It is totally inappropriate to drink and drive... I also think that after his chair sniffing episode it was silly to put him on the front bench. I don't get why both sides allow this to happen. There are plenty of people that can take their place in any party. 

Was he caught drink driving? Or was it jsut assumed he was drink driving because his gate was locked? I mean if crashing into your gate means you have been drink driving then I know lots of people that should have been charged. 

[debra9275]

I don't know much about him, apart from the stories of his past behaviour.  Perhaps he should've resigned earlier if he wasn't well enough to face the stress of the job

[lakeland27]

yes, he appears to have got away with it.  there seems little doubt he was intoxicated, witness accounts point to erratic driving consistent with dd and intoxication.

[polksaladallie]

Maybe the police cover-up should be investigated.

[boris1gary]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:

maybe  a few polititions and a few people on here should take note, this is where charicter assination leads to, they maybe polititions but they are people to and even the strongest of people can not stand before the wind for ever

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please

he was drink driving and didn't want to face upto the consequences

he had done too many other things.........new the press would be all over him

appears that he is a binge drinker

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had the same thing from a NSW liberal (former now) Minister, drunk at work and gets a month off (with pay) - ha the hypocrites - sacked but not before gutting the NSW workers comp - finally sacked for breaching the ministerial code of conduct.

[lakeland27]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Maybe the police cover-up should be investigated.

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 its odd, one rule for him and another for everyone else.

in any other DD investigation they would have gained entry to breathalyse

[freakiness]

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@catsnknots wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

  we all need a big gate locked gate to avoid drunk driving charges it seems. what is it with these LNP types that makes them think  driving drunk acceptable ?

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I am not excusing the behaviour. It is totally inappropriate to drink and drive... I also think that after his chair sniffing episode it was silly to put him on the front bench. I don't get why both sides allow this to happen. There are plenty of people that can take their place in any party. 

Was he caught drink driving? Or was it jsut assumed he was drink driving because his gate was locked? I mean if crashing into your gate means you have been drink driving then I know lots of people that should have been charged. 

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The reports said that the car was being driven erratically, which is why the police were called. By the time they found it he had ran into the gate and locked the car inside the yard.  

[mugssy65]

Don't know the answer to this, maybe you should ask Alana McTernin? Lol

[mtnlane]

.....or any of the others also mentioned in this link.  A little 'dated' but pertinent nonetheless!

http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/10/drink-drive-bloody-member-of-parliament/

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@mugssy65 wrote:
Don't know the answer to this, maybe you should ask Alana McTernin? Lol

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Good point, Mugssy. the difference is though she was arrested, fined and stripped of her portfolio - she wasn't seen by the public to have 'got away with it.'

If a full account of the Buswell incident had been released immediately after it happened, there might well have been sympathy for him - mental llness of any kind is is a horrible thing to live with.  It is not usually accepted as a mitigating circumstance in cases of drink driving though, and given the extraordinary secrecy and lack of police action following the cras,h the perception of special treatment and a coverup is - rightly or wrongly - going to be very hard to shake..