Jeff Kennett unloads on Malcolm Turnbull, page-4

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16/09/15

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Originally posted by stevo ↑

Lets hope so Hairy.
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John O’Sullivan wonders if Turnbull has it in him to placate a furious Liberal base:
One of the surest maxims about politics is that divided parties don’t win elections. Malcolm Turnbull has just divided the Liberal Party and taken control of it by the same action: staging a successful rebellion against Tony Abbott. He won but he did so against 45 per cent of his parliamentary colleagues and a much larger percentage of Liberal Party members in the country.
A good source tells me that telephone and internet messages into Canberra were running at well over the rate of 90 per cent for Abbott and against the parliamentary coup before and after the vote, with such messages as, “Are we mad?” and “We’re as bad as Labor”.
Electoral self-interest and party discipline will restrain and eventually pacify the disappointed former loyalists on the government benches. A reluctant National Party has already pledged fealty to Turnbull. Abbott will not join any cabal bent on revenge from the right, as his angry but dignified statement on Tuesday made plain. And the approaching election will surely strengthen all the instincts of party unity.
But these cold, necessary, Machiavellian calculations won’t greatly influence the Liberal rank and file who support a political party from tribal loyalty or ideological sympathy. Their discontent will have to be soothed, and their support will have to be won back by the new Prime Minister. It won’t be easy.
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Stevo Turnbull better make it a short run to an election.
He has form.
But then maybe Australia deserves Bill Shorten
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