Five words, that's all he had to say

Originally posted by Justis: ↑

Before Abbott was dumped LNP had been trailing in the polls, Shorten was ahead as preferred PM and Turnbull way ahead as preferred Liberal leader. All that suggested removing Abbott and replacing him with Turnbull would benefit the LNP, indeed it did, LNP went from 47% 2pp to 53% 2pp virtually over night

If Abbott had not been replaced LNP would have lost 29 seats, a poll conducted in the week before the election shows that.

Federal election 2016: Coalition would have been smashed if Abbott was still PM
Samantha Maiden, National Political Editor, The Sunday Telegraph
June 25, 2016 10:00pm

TONY Abbott’s survival as Prime Minister would have killed the government at the election according to voters across Australia.

An exclusive Galaxy poll commissioned by The Sunday Telegraph has vindicated the Prime Minister’s decision to knife his predecessor.

It finds Labor leader Bill Shorten would have been elected as Prime Minister with a majority of 29 seats if Tony Abbott were still the leader.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...m/news-story/6fa66dde73235da49e316ee882cd2811

Conservative wake-up call: Election result would have been worse under Tony Abbott
Renee Viellaris, The Courier-Mail
July 11, 2016 9:11am

THE Conservatives in the Turnbull Government need a wake-up call - not to mention a pill for their short-term memory loss.

As they puff their chests, share their wisdom about why they nearly lost the election and demand rewards for having such insight, they forget one salient point: they would have been slaughtered under Tony Abbott’s leadership.
Let me reinforce that point. If Tony Abbott was still the PM when the election was called, Bill Shorten would be Australia’s new leader.

A poll published in The Daily Telegraph on June 26 reinforced that point. Asking how they would vote if the contest was between Mr Abbott and Mr Shorten, respondents would have handed Mr Shorten a majority of 29 seats.

In terms of two party-preferred, it fell 53-47, Labor’s way and the Coalition’s primary vote would have plummeted to just 38 per cent.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...t/news-story/cdbae1923011ae8094e2e52d8c5ca961

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Why are you wasting your time Justis, there will always be a minority of Abbott cheerleaders who think he would have been able to do better at the last election, they live in their little cave and only talk to like minded people.
That delusion knows no limit, would it even surprise you if they were to tell you that he would have increased his majority?
Anyone I spoke to in my liberal dominated industry was cheering when he got punted, the same way we were all cheering when Dutton looked like an idiot.
Wake up it’s 2018 not 1978, people’s attitude change, but that’s too hard to understand for 5-10 dinosaurs within the party.

Thank god B.S. is the leader of the opposition, just imagine if it was anyone but him, we would be lucky to get 35 seats the next time around.