Wilson Tucky

[Jovial Monk]

Emailed all his colleagues to say Attabull was too arrogant and inexperienced yadda yadda. Of course, Ironbar didn't do the emailing, creting wouldn't know how to!

I think the cretin wants the Fibs to run the next election on "No ETS" oh please Fibs, please please do it!

[Jovial Monk]

No comments? Wow!

Anyone noted that the Fibs are in self-destruction mode?

An old idiot like Tuckey, I think is over 70yo is staying in a safe Fib seat. As is Ruddock aka The Cadaver and various other wastes of space, e.g. Bronnie Bishop. What preselections they have held have ended up with hacks selected as candidates. Where is the new blood they need going to come from? They have to put up with Uturnbull because there is no one else up to the job. Not a single alternative leader about.

True Jensen the creationist lunatic has lost preselection but that happened last time and he got preselection back on appeal.

[Biff O'Hara]

No comments? Wow!

Anyone noted that the Fibs are in self-destruction mode?

An old idiot like Tuckey, I think is over 70yo is staying in a safe Fib seat. As is Ruddock aka The Cadaver and various other wastes of space, e.g. Bronnie Bishop. What preselections they have held have ended up with hacks selected as candidates. Where is the new blood they need going to come from? They have to put up with Uturnbull because there is no one else up to the job. Not a single alternative leader about.

True Jensen the creationist lunatic has lost preselection but that happened last time and he got preselection back on appeal.

The obvious extension of your "age doesn't equal intelligence" theory would lead one to assume that youth equals intelligence. Peter Garrett, Penny Wong and Alex Hawke would tend to disprove your theory.

I have no time for Tuckey but I do like the way he told Turnbull to stick to the script.

[Leftofcentresalterego]

"I have no time for Tuckey but I do like the way he told Turnbull to stick to the script"

I just like the way the fibs are squabbling amongst themselves, trying desperately to find some direction.

Remember the movie " Lord of the flies"?

Hmm. Will Turnbull survive all the way to the next election as leader? Will he get bumped off? Great live theatre

[Jovial Monk]

Oh man. we have had Uturnbull, Tuckey, Abbott and Minchin speak on the ETS giving us 4 different versions! This is better than live theatre and is so deliciously protacted!

Make a nice big batch of popcorn and enjoy!

$1 will get you $5 the Fibs will split b4 the next election!

[Jovial Monk]

After hiding for the last two days Uturnbull has surfaced and they will pass the ETS with amendments. Betcha Rudd tells them to pass as is, they are in no position to make big demands.

[Jovial Monk]

I wonder if the bookies are giving odds on:

Nuts splitting from Fibs, i.e. leaving the coalition

Fibs splitting: an unreconstructed Howardista group splitting off from those who have more than 10 brain cells + those who may have less but want to be re-elected


Talking about re-election, a startling number of Fibs are in seats that are charitably described as marginal, i.e. if Labor/Rudd don't lose the plot Labor wil win those seats next election. The redistribution in Qld sees Dutton pretty much homeless, so fireworks as incumbents try to find the safest of the new seats. The Fibs stand to lose up to 20 seats at the next election according to internal party polling (or looking at Newspoll etc.) I bet Rudd tells them to pass the ETS Bill as-is and that may precipitate some splits.

Stupid Fibs, still have no policy, Uturnbull has no authority in the party and they do and say what they want. Nothing at all done about the demographic trainwreck facing them: int he last 10 years about 1m Australian voters have moved leftwards or enough preboomers have died off and young people joined the rolls to give the same effect. Either way, the Fibs are looking minor party status in the face and not doing one thing about it!

[Jovial Monk]

Which brings us back to Tuckey. His "strategy'' would give Rudd all the moral high ground on global warming and go to the polls before the pessimistic economic scenario that even Rudd now admits to takes hold.

It's an act of political genius really. Scratch most journalists in the Parliamentary Press Gallery and they'll tell you privately that Tuckey is barking mad, and ought to have been rolled for pre-selection by the Liberals' WA division long ago.

For evidence, you only need watch him in Parliament: the man talks loudly to no one in particular in Question Time. Every Question Time.

Even the Speaker treats him gently, behaving much like a hospital wards-man helping someone back to their room after they've become lost in the corridor.

The only reason Tuckey was given a trot in the media, apart from the fact of Turnbull's perceived weakness on this issue, is that he represents a battering ram for the Right.

But even they will ultimately think twice before putting Turnbull to the sword over climate change - for the simple reason there is no alternative as leader.

Not that Tuckey would care because he has form. The sum of his contribution to the Liberal Party is undermining every leader the party has had.

He was instrumental in toppling Howard after the 1987 election and then crippled his replacement Andrew Peacock, by going on Four Corners to admit that the plotters, in league with Peacock, had lied to the media and their colleagues.

While Howard was in power he chipped away constantly at Costello when the rational option was to preserve the then Treasurer as a natural leadership successor.

Then, when things were becoming untenable for Howard in August 2007, he distinguished himself by suddenly sending the then Prime Minister a fax urging him to step down.

He says mistakenly, but again Tuckey sent it around the Liberal caucus. It was a debacle for Howard, who was desperately trying to shore up his position with voters who were increasingly turning to Rudd.

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