Say Good Bye Mal, page-2

sorry - watso posted this previously on the wrong thread
and via bolts blog

Dennis Shanahan:

The government has lost the political argument on penalty rates, Malcolm Turnbull has lost his fleeting dominance over Bill Shorten and the Liberal backbench is losing hope.

The Prime Minister even lost his voice as the government’s previous momentum on lower energy prices faltered and trailed away in parliament yesterday.

All week the Coalition has failed to address a disciplined, deadly political attack from Labor over cuts to penalty rates for weekend workers. For more than a week the Coalition’s response to the Fair Work Commission’s cuts to weekend penalty rates has lacked economic justification, examples of benefits, appeals to job creation, and a simple argument that cafes and shops don’t employ anyone on any pay if they don’t open...

In the final question time of the first parliamentary week in March, Turnbull flubbed his chance to recover, he was stilted, hard to hear, unconvincing, treated with contempt by Labor and ignored by his colleagues. When Labor’s Brendan O’Connor can win a parliamentary moment over Malcolm Turnbull, QC, by simply telling Coalition MPs “wakey, wakey” it’s a bad day for the Coalition and a demonstration of just how hard it is to be prime minister.


all those bed wetters - well a lot of them anyway, will be having second thoughts on their silly decision to dump abbott. despite what the turnbull luvies might proclaim, it is obvious that turnbull is leading the government to disaster - and against a labor party, who are still full of incompetents from the krudd/gillard years
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