There is an unspoken reason why Malcolm Turnbull, GetUp! and global warming groups are frantically trying to get Tony Abbott kicked out of politics in the May election.
This huge drive to defeat the former prime minister isn’t because Abbott holds a marginal seat. He doesn’t.
It isn’t because his Warringah seat is the one seat keeping the Liberals in government. There are dozens of more marginal Liberals seats, and the fall of any one would hand the election to Labor.
And it isn’t simply because Turnbull and global warming groups hate Abbott’s guts, though they most certainly do. Turnbull is almost insane with rage that Abbott, in his mind, cost him his own prime ministership.
No, only one factor explains this huge effort to defeat Abbott.
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