The unlamented Malcolm Turnbull has joined the ranks of former Australian prime ministers, being succeeded by Scott Morrison. According to a couple of commenters, Morrison's only apparent advantage is that he isn't Turnbull.
Now, as is well known, I'm generally considered to be something of an expert on the Australian political system; however, I am not really up to speed on the individual personalities. Are there any up and coming Liberals who offer the promise of sound leadership?
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Tony Abbott who was PM from 2013 to 2015 is the only tested conservative leader. Not up and coming, he was gotchered by the press until Turnbull overthrew him. Peter Dutton was supposed to replace Turnbull, but yesterday was bait and switch. Dutton is a good man but probably couldn't stand up to a full press onslaught, he only won his seat by a few votes for one thing.
For example they get Tony Abbott's lesbian sister to speak on TV and criticise him. They dragged up some college incident where he lost his temper.
What Bruce said.
Dutton has stood firm as Immigration Minister. If you can judge a man's worth by the enemies he attracts, Peter Dutton is a reliable conservative. The Greens despise him with almost as much venom as they showed for Abbott.
Morrison has been tagged as Turnbull lite. I'm not inclined to disagree.
And I wouldn't be surprised if Turnbull sticks around to try a comeback. Labor gave us Rudd, Gillard, Rudd. Turnbull, Morrison, Turnbull isn't beyond the realms of possibility - particularly given that Turnbull has a Rudd-sized ego.
Both Bruce and Gregory are correct. Turnbull always reminded me of Rudd. Too many selfies and absolutely no political nous. He white-anted, leaked against and destabilised Abbott in his lust for the top job before knifing him. Once Turnbull got it he did not know what to do with it. Populist policies driven by SJW's and global warming. Here is the man who called for unity when his position was threatened. A true hypocrite.
The media rubbished Tony Abbott for being a surf life saver and bushfire brigade volunteer. Remember the clip of him out fighting a fire and tripping over a hose. Oh how they laughed. I know people who hated and despised him. They had never met him mind you but they were fed the hate by the media. Here is a man who truly wants to serve for the betterment of Australia and its people. The media was extremely hostile to him. I have read his book, Battlelines, and it gives you a great insight into the man. A man of principle.
Turnbull was leading the conservatives to the left and had lost them around two million votes, which all went to minor conservative parties. Turnbull (a narcissistic incompetent and professional back-stabber) thought that by moving left the base would stick as they had no choice and he'd pick up lefty votes. Instead the lefties laughed and the base broke away.
Oops.
He's just that sort of anti-genius. So he doubled down.
The election is in nine months and they were looking at annihilation. It's a 150 seat lower house. Currently the coalition (two conservative parties) holds 76 seats (60 Liberal party - conservatives out here) and 16 national). A one seat majority (Turnbull lost 14 seats at the last election!)
Turnbull was looking at a loss of a further 30 Liberal seats!
Minimum.
OK, what happened. No-one knows really yet but it looks like this.
Finally, the conservative wing cracked, and were immediately ambushed by the Liberal left of the party using a pre-arranged plan. Turnbull called a leadership spill which flushed out and disorganised the conservatives, who were not expecting it. Turnbull then stalled for time because his left-wing factional party boss (a bottom-dwelling creature called Michael Photios from New South Wales) absolutely owns both him and Morrison. The time allowed him to fix the numbers and Morrison won the second leadership spill.
Outcome: the party left wounded but still in charge, the conservatives, who can see the tsunami coming, disorganised and enraged.
Morrison might reduce the coming apocalypse to a mere cataclysm, and keep losses below 20 seats. But I do not think so.
To win (and that would be easy to do), he'd have to implement the conservative action plan (dumping the Paris agreement, cutting all green subsidies, reducing the size of government, balancing the budget) BUT he's wholly owned by Photios and the left AND Turnbull is pulling down the temple by leaving parliament completely, reducing the government to minority status. So he won't do that and cannot even if he wanted to.
So, we are entirely screwed.
The ALP has shifted even further leftwards, chasing the Greens, and are both corrupt and staggeringly incompetent to boot. A shorten ALP government will have the economic smarts of Maduro in Venezuela, the competence of Trudeau, the policy framework of Greenpeace and the corruption level of Mugabe.
Bad times coming.
Gyro Cadiz
Another globalist.
Seriously, I'm starting to have second thoughts about the "Port Arthur Massacre".
At the time, there were reports of a "yellow complexion man, wearing a blonde wig" doing the shooting.
God only knows, any more.
Screwed we are.
Tits Peanuthead and the 4 harpies of armageddon are a shoo in for the next election.
Well be lucky if they only make us tuck our penises rather than line up in front of the little guillotine.
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