The Turnbull Government

[Logique]

Blogger SpencerofBrisbane has reviewed the Coalition leadership options. My view? Might have to look further afield. I don't know how the national treasury would keep the frocks up to a PM Bishop.

SpencerofBrisbane
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/a...e/news-story/eb9e987c39fd77c50ff598e1d1c89aca

Bishop ? She's a value-free zone inclined to go Left. I'd never vote for her.

Morrison ? Not sure. He plummeted in my estimation once he got the Treasury portfolio and got big-governmentitis.

Dutton ? A possibility, but only if he cleans out the Bishops, Hunts, Pyne's etc from the Front Bench.

Frydenberg ? A definite, NO. Hugely disappointed whenever I hear him speak. Has fallen into line with Party leftism. His Q & A performances were excruciatingly weak.

Abbott ? The obvious choice. He has always had the measure of Labor, and in a 2nd incarnation as Liberal leader, I suspect he'll unleash his mongrel Conservative side.

 

[Tisme]

Labor strategists must have seen Turnbull's very similar outburst on 7:30 and used it as a cattle prod... they got him where it hurts and it works. Otherwise there seemed little point in moving a motion against the Govt in parliament.

It worked for Abbott - he did it 75 times in 3 years.

Now he has to own Credlin's insult forever LOL

I can imagine every hand he shakes from now on will be connected to a thought bubble: "Mr Harbourside Mansion" smirk.

 

[PZ.]

Blogger SpencerofBrisbane has reviewed the Coalition leadership options. My view? Might have to look further afield. I don't know how the national treasury would keep the frocks up to a PM Bishop.

Her name is Julie, she was a showgirl
But that was thirty years ago, when Liberals used to have a show
Now it's a disco, but not for Julie
Still in dress she used to wear
Faded feathers in her hair
She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind
She lost her Brendon and she lost her Tony
Now she's lost her mind

 

[Tisme]

If these two were part of your immediate family how red would your face be? LOL

Even Mr Embarassment himself Pyne is crawling into his coat sleeve.

 

[PZ.]

They're still at it too. Shouting like a team of Chelsea supporters when they're 8 points behind.

http://www.news.com.au/national/bre...n/news-story/3b68aec7f6b77e1e97e33ab95284d3da

 

[Tisme]

I wonder how Pauline takes to this, being one who sold fish&chips, but didn't run a pie shop:

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce thoroughly enjoyed Mr Turnbull’s spray and joined in this morning.

“(Mr Shorten) couldn’t run a pie shop and the thought of him running the country just fills me with dread,” he told ABC.

Mr Joyce said if he had a choice between someone running the country with “the arse out of their pants who has never made a buck” or someone who had actually got ahead, he’d back the latter.

“He might be leader of the Labor Party but it looks like you’ve never done a day’s labour in your life,” Mr Joyce told ABC radio of the Labor leader.

“We’re not going to have Mr Shorten going out there, bucketing on us and just keep on taking it on the chin everyday.”

 

[wayneL]

I think this is the agenda this year: to play the man instead of the policy. Very Abbottesque, but requires a certain amount of ingrained hate, which means Malcolm is not going to be the man his wife married at the end of it.

Its okay for Short 'un to play the man, but not Mal?

 

[Tisme]

Its okay for Short 'un to play the man, but not Mal?

No. But he isn't the Prime Minister who also took a beating from Trump and his own ex Senator.

I don't like Shorten and I don't vote Labor, so I don't know what your question is angling at really.

 

[Tisme]

Anyone notice how Shorten was devastated by the onslaught? Look at the anguish on his face : LOL

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/turnbull-and-shorten-trade-barbs-during-question-time/8252540

 

[McLovin]

I thought it was great... dead accurate.

About time Malcolm got fired up.

We agree for a change.

 

[pixel]

And what did that outburst prove with regard to Labor policies?
In a word: Zilch!
The PM simply demonstrated that the pressure of trying to lead an incohesive coalition against a hostile Senate is getting the better of him. His repetitive invective went way over the heads of the majority of listeners - assuming there were many to begin with. And the outburst would hardly have persuaded any Labor voter to switch allegiances. That's why Shorten could remain rather calm and poker-faced. No danger from that kind of vitriol.

 

[SirRumpole]

And what did that outburst prove with regard to Labor policies?
In a word: Zilch!
The PM simply demonstrated that the pressure of trying to lead an incohesive coalition against a hostile Senate is getting the better of him. His repetitive invective went way over the heads of the majority of listeners - assuming there were many to begin with. And the outburst would hardly have persuaded any Labor voter to switch allegiances. That's why Shorten could remain rather calm and poker-faced. No danger from that kind of vitriol.

The Libs still have the stinking fish head policies of negative gearing and corporate tax cuts with little relief for the majority, and in fact less for the majority via reductions in FTB.

Protect the wealthy, hit everyone else like Tories always do.

Unless they change those policies they will lose the next election, Shorten or no Shorten.

 

[PZ.]

LOL @ Tony Abbott 6:50...

 

[moXJO]

Tbull wants to do away with the $100 and there was talk of the $50 as well. India just tried something similar and there were massive problems.

 

[Tisme]

I have a feeling this author is not impressed:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...y-against-shorten-just-highlights-his-elitism

On Friday, Malcolm Turnbull’s tanty at Bill Shorten continued. No doubt encouraged by the rare praise of the newspapers who hyped up his petulant spit on Wednesday as a “withering put down” and an “aggressive new course” from the prime minister, he called his opponent a “hypocrite” on radio.

But I can’t blame my media colleagues for giving it a go. Here they are in the business of selling newspapers yet all the recent political news from Canberra has less tension than a shrivelled balloon on a damp day.

It’s a metaphor that defines the very character of the Turnbull government. The Liberals and Nationals have started the new parliamentary year with no national vision, no new policy and no great willingness to face the actual challenges of the global moment...........

 

[moXJO]

I have a feeling this author is not impressed:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...y-against-shorten-just-highlights-his-elitism

She had a dressing down by a conservative after shrieking about feminism, which only made her even more hysterical. At the moment all the right is the enemy of third wave feminists

 

[Tisme]

She had a dressing down by a conservative after shrieking about feminism, which only made her even more hysterical. At the moment all the right is the enemy of third wave feminists

So she's a " Malcontent" ..boom boom

 

[Tisme]

 

[SirRumpole]

Barnaby Joyce, the biggest dill in any Parliament in the country.

And they could have voted for Tony Windsor, what were they thinking ?

 

[noco]

Barnaby Joyce, the biggest dill in any Parliament in the country.

And they could have voted for Tony Windsor, what were they thinking ?

They were thinking Tony Windsor was a turncoat who deserted the National Party and could not be trusted.