I think this might be an option also........................
Malcolm Turnbull might want to call a spill after 30th Newspoll trailing Labor
With little more than three weeks left before Malcolm Turnbull clocks up his 30th consecutive Newspoll trailing the Labor Party, it is abundantly clear he will need a strategy to deal with the fallout.
The Prime Minister’s critics will call for him to resign, having measured up to the yardstick for failure he used to prise Tony Abbott out of the top job. But that battle cry presupposes a viable alternative to Turnbull, which at this stage there certainly is not.
Which is why Turnbull’s best strategy to end criticism of his long-run polling deficit would be to call a leadership spill, win the vote handsomely and carry on as Prime Minister, hoping finally to unpick Labor and its leader, Bill Shorten, in time to be competitive at the next election. This week Turnbull indicated that his intention is to go to the polls in the first half of next year, likely in April.
His conundrum is that the bold move of spilling the leadership in three weeks would help to end speculation about his Newspoll failure — by employing the “put up or shut up” philosophy — only if any opponent, or an empty chair if there is none, fares badly.
