C'mon Justis, that description is far more apt for Malcolm Turnbull than Tony Abbott.
In 2003 Turnbull announced that he would challenge King for the seat and successfully defeated him to become the Liberal candidate. During what was a bitter preselection campaign, King accused Turnbull of branch stacking by having local members transferring their membership to a branch that would decide the pre-selection, what King referred to as "branch stripping"
Incidentally, during the campaign, Turnbull spent over $600,000 on his own campaign.
(That grew to $1.75 Million in 2016 to buy the job of PM)
On 16 September 2008 Turnbull challenged Brendan Nelson for the leadership . He won the ballot by four votes and became Leader of the Opposition.
Following persistent leadership tensions amidst poor opinion polling, a leadership spill motion was moved against Tony Abbott on 9 February 2015.
Although the spill motion was defeated 61 votes to 39, "Turnbull had been reported as considering a run for the leadership if the spill motion had succeeded."
Before the motion Turnbull had told reporters that "if, for whatever reason, the leadership of a political party is vacant then anyone, any member of the party can stand, whether they be a minister or a backbencher, without any disloyalty to the person whose leadership has been declared vacant
Turnbull is a snake and cannot be trusted. He did not, right up until after the next Party spill, ever voice his intentions of taking the elected PM's job...
He will be totally responsible for the election of Bill Shorten and the ALP to Government in 2019...
Expand
