Poor Malcolm Turnbull, caught in a trap, a web, a snare, ambushed and assailed, boxed in and brutishly bushwhacked by Malcolm Turnbull.Malcolm Turnbull set the trap for himself on September 14, 2015. Standing on the parliament lawns, he announced his resignation from cabinet and challenged a first term prime minister who had been in the job for two years to a spill in the party room.
Turnbull gave three reasons. A lack of economic leadership. A lack of cabinet process and the loss of 30 consecutive Newspolls.
“The one thing that is clear about our current situation is the trajectory. We have lost 30 Newspolls in a row. It is clear that the people have made up their mind about Mr Abbott’s leadership.”
Last year he told Miranda Devine he had regrets.
“I do regret having said it only because it allowed people to focus on that, rather than substantive reasons,” he said.
This is classic Turnbull. He doesn’t regret making the statement. He regrets only that his words have been manipulated and misconstrued his words by others.
Full column here.
You know you are totally stuffed when you read these type of “supporting” headlines, Mr Insider and I quote: “Senior government ministers are rallying behind the prime minister ahead of an expected 30th consecutive Newspoll loss for the coalition”. Pack your bags Malcolm your “team” are right behind you ………. with political knives out!
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Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion , of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without condemning of one’s views and by trying to make it objectified , and by considering each and everyone’s valid opinion , I honestly believe that I completely forgot , what I was going to say … Thanks 🙂
Quick clip, Mr Insider, on “Malcolm’s Road To Canberra” as distinct from his “Slippery Dip Departure” to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzjmYk1xldM
Smoke (April 5 9.35am) – I avoid the popular conservative pastime of laying the blame completely at Turnbull’s feet. Sure, he took full and cynical advantage of an atmosphere of flakiness and ill-discipline that his predecessor had failed to address and had actually contributed to. Both Abbott and Turnbull have done their bit to help this situation along.
But it’s a problem that plagues the Liberals nationally and has done for at least a decade. It can’t be slated home just to the national and state / territory leaders who are either capitalising on it or falling foul of it. It seems to be a bigger problem than that. In fact, just sticking with the theme of leadership coups, I think the constant search for a Messiah – for The One who can work miracles and solve all their problems – might be a large part of it.
In 1997 / 98, when John Howard was plagued by ministerial resignations (six of them, born of breaches of his newly-revamped ministerial code of conduct), the resignation of a parliamentary secretary and his own chief of staff and many allegations of a type similar to those later levelled at Tony Abbott (lacks authority; no reform agenda; unlikeable; bigot) what did they do? They got their heads together, figured out a crazy-brave plan around the GST and went for it like a rampaging Mongolian horde. It nearly brought them unstuck but discipline, commitment and a willingness to serve under a less-than-perfect leader saw it eventually pay off. The rest is history. When they faced similar (and I would say, not nearly so severe) difficulties in 2015 what did they do? Chucked the chief under a bus, elected a more photogenic and likeable character and stood about waiting for miracles to happen. What a surprise that it didn’t work!
Sorry for the long posts, Jack. I’ll shut up now.
Pretty good analysis.
Thank-you.
yep this hoping for the messiah is a problem
[ if you’re holding only hope you’re holding the wrong position]
mainly in my view because any courageous policy wonks [messiahs ] are crucified by the vested or by the stupid or by the selfish……tsk tsk I repeat myself.
so said wonks leave for better paid positions and all that are left are the pusillanimous grubs serving now
, representing their donors not their constituents
There is a dearth of messiah’s, sadly.
Don’t forget to put your footy tips in. Go Blues for some and ‘Pies for others.
Pies went. Kicked straight for the first time in about twenty years.
The Looters must be really hard up when they have to wheel out war-mongering Howard and profligate Costello to take over the Looters. Just show you how devoid of leadership this mob are. Easter has come and gone and its too late to resurrect Costello. His pork barrelling is the reason we have so much debt now. Costello was the clown with Howard who created the catastrophe in the housing market, negative gearing and capital gains tax discount on investment properties. Costello was also the Treasurer who set up the superannuation system allowing the wealthy to shovel up to $1 million into their super funds at low tax rates to later become tax-free funds.The fact that a Costello comeback is now being considered while the party is in government simply compounds the leadership void. They have no one of substance.. The Fibs are only good at 1. Taking us to war 2. Governing when times are good.
Bassy,
Could you do a time line on negative gearing please. In long before Costello and Howard. By the way if there wasn’t an incentive for investors to invest in the property market there would be an awful lot more homeless families out there. Before you crap on about only rich people are investors you need to consider heaps of investors in the residential market are just average mums and dads trying to get ahead. Tradies, teachers, coppers and so forth.
Good one Razor, I support that.
Costello comeback that’s genius BASSMAN, don’t know why I didn’t think of that and that may just work for the Libs. All they need to do now is get someone to resign, creating a By Election then pop Costello up and hey presto Malcolm is toast! Cheers
pjk can wear NG bassy and u know it…got rid of it til the shtf and he rolled over
https://www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-dashboard#nem-dispatch-overview
http://www.kane.id.au/data.php
The figures are at 22:30 so solar does not come into the picture.
Anybody want to go completely renewable??
Brilliant post JS! Pretty much sums everything up.
Batteries have been used for over 2000 years, In the 18th century a number of people produced more “current” type of batteries that we are familiar with. Mr Volta in 1800 made advances again, on and on these Agile and Innovative people improved batteries. They will be used to store power for use in homes and industry as is already with case with the Hornsdale battery in SA which has been providing free electricity and reducing the cost overall, along ensuing the NEM frequency is maintained at levels needed when fossil fuel generators drop out as the have 53 times since the start of last summer.
Anyone continuing to state Renewable energy and dispatchable power are not viable and going to lead to more efficient reliable power are deliberately disingenuous and uniformed.
https://theconversation.com/solar-pv-and-wind-are-on-track-to-replace-all-coal-oil-and-gas-within-two-decades-94033
What ? When Jesus was playing halfback for Jerusalem? Man, that was a miracle!
Could be referring to assault & batteries perhaps, Mack?
My old great, great uncle Lord Armstrong had mercury vapour lamps in his stately home before Edison invented the light bulb, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t have batteries. Anyway, he was more of a hydraulics engineer and he also invented the first cannon with rifling I believe.
JS here you go right on cue. “The Australian Energy Market Operator has hailed the initial performance of the Tesla big battery in South Australia, saying the results of its first four months of operation shows it is faster and smarter than conventional turbines”
https://reneweconomy.com.au/faster-smarter-grid-operator-hails-performance-tesla-big-battery/
Your ability to not to look into the facts and muddy the pool is renown Dismayed.
What that post said was, at the a particular time, renewables contributed stuff all to the electricity consumption and NO battery in existence or even one in your imagination could have sustained the short fall.
Wrong as usual JS.
JS you and your mates are on the wrong side as usual. Add batteries to this solar and Australia will so be able to convert the old coal clunkers into Gas peaking units in the next 20 years.
“Since Turnbull came into power in late 2015 – after unseating Tony Abbott, but not his predecessor’s climate and energy policies – the rate of uptake of rooftop solar in Australia has more than doubled.” “It is now running at record levels of around 120MW a month, with 18,000 new installations on households and businesses around the country in March, and a total of 55,000 installations, and a record 351MW of capacity installed on rooftops in the first three months of the year.”
https://reneweconomy.com.au/consumers-are-sick-of-coalitions-coal-fantasy-they-are-going-solar-29278/
Razor says:
APRIL 4, 2018 AT 1:21 PM
Er what were you saying about Dutts being very popular Bald?
Liberal Leader at next election betting:
Turnbull $1.44
Bishop $4.50
Abbott $6.00
Dutton $11.00
Politics is about timing Bassy. I said to TV he would lead the Liberal party. I never said at the next election.
Hope he does!
Just because
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSljt0i3TI
abbott IS inferior to turnbull and turnbull is the best the conservative coalition have to offer. The next generation are mostly IPA graduates so far right they don’t represent more than about 3.5% of the Nations voting population. this is what happens when you have a narrow minded, divisive ideology at the forefront of everything you do as the cons do.