Samantha Maiden

That said, at this stage, at least they've got the brains to say, well, we're not going to neck him now.

Why would we do that, right?

Yeah.

I still think the kind of problem with Andrew Hastie is that he's quite brittle and he's got quite a thin skin and, you know, like he gets really offended when people criticise him.

And I think he has had a really tough time with the criticism that has erupted over the Ben Robert Smith stuff.

Like I won't go into all the detail but, like, the short version is that, you know, he was obviously in the SAS interview

He didn't like what he was hearing about Ben Robert Smith and he tried to support people that were complaining about it and gave evidence in the defamation trial.

And as a result of that, he's been attacked by Ben Robert Smith's mum, by Gina Reinhart and by Pauline Hanson.

The ladies are ganging up.

Yeah, and young, you know, handsome young Andrew Hastie is being bashed by ladies.

I think he's going berserk about One Nation in part because of this male fragility issue that he's got around being called a traitor.

He loses his bottle and he's like, how dare you, Pauline Hanson, gang up on me with Gina about this stuff?

Like, I'm going to take you all out, right?

And it's personal for him.

We got up in the party room and talked about having to upgrade security because there are all these nutters on the loose now who are targeting him and his family and online threats.

So it's really personal.

And I think that he believes that supporters of One Nation are kind of drumming that up.

And I think that's what explains it.

I don't think it's the end.

I don't think it's the beginning either.