Turnbull the Traitor

[Black Orchid]

THE ABC has been thrown into further turmoil, with a senior journalist being suspended following a complaint by Malcolm Turnbull’s son.

The rest is pay walled so I cannot see it. Turnbull's son? For God's sake the whole family should be sent packing.

Try here - ABC reporter suspended for two months after complaint by Alex Turnbull to chairman - no paywall.

Thanks.

[LEFTWINGER supreme]

The only chance you had at winning election and you got rid of him because of Poll results, you know just like McKermit said you did.

[Rorschach]

Dear DickforBrains LWhinger.... for your education I have posted now several times on this site why he was deposed, yet you in your abject stupidity and ignorance keep avoiding the real facts and try on the aLP propaganda lines ad nauseam.

[Rorschach]

Maybe I'm sticking to the points already brought up.
And the topic itself.
Did you miss the article I already posted on why Turnbull was dumped.
It was excellent and BTW was exactly what I've continuously been telling that other LW PROG LWhinger.
Even when he's allowed to bring it up over and over again.
If I get time I'll repost it here.

[Rorschach]

Sorry, takes a while to go over so many posts just to find 1.
So how many times before have bwian who does ignore me and any relevant points and LWhinger stops making the some dumb statements?
Too many apparently.

Turnball was knifed in the back for trying to live up to his party's name. Tut, tut. That such a thing could happen in a party which was once proclaimed to be a "broad church" by it's founder. Oh, dearie, dearie, me.

Well we know that is bullshit.
He was trying to change the party to make it progressive. His version of Liberal is not the version menzies had in the day he named the party.
But hey I already told you that.
You just cant be told apparently.
Live in delusion then, just don't spread lies...

The new Prime Minister emerged amid a disastrous situation, with scant likelihood of turning the ebbing tide into an election victory within the impossibly short time frame available — seven months at most before an election must be called. For some of the cabinet ministers who moved against Malcolm Turnbull the primary aim was just to remove him as leader, regardless of who succeeded him, in the belief that under Turnbull the Coalition would lose catastrophically and the nature of the Liberal Party would be changed forever.

Seems only dumb people don't know why Turnbull was removed after all.

The LINOs - Liberal in name only.
By Maurice Newman
11:00PM October 18, 2018

In the Liberal Party pantheon of former leaders, it is doubtful Malcolm Turnbull will find a place. After all, he is a Liberal in name only: a LINO. As confirmed by Glenn Milne in The Sunday Telegraph (August 23, 2009), his instincts are Labor. “Mr Turnbull approached at least six senior ALP figures, including former prime minister Bob Hawke, ¬actively seeking their endorsement to join the ALP,” Milne wrote. Hawke contends Turnbull approached him at Sydney’s Marriott Hotel in November 1999. These approaches were rebuffed.
Even as prime minister, being a Liberal seemed to grate. Indeed, rather than use the Liberal Party badging, he preferred to run his campaigns under the slogan “The Turnbull Coalition Team”.

If Turnbull saw the Liberal Party as a flag of convenience, so did the electorate. The Liberal supporter base watched with dismay as under his leadership, his leftist, aptly named Black Hand, colleagues comprehensively trashed Liberal core values of thrift, free enterprise and smaller government.

This may have played well for the “progressives” in Wentworth, but not for the base. Long-time Liberal voters lost confidence in the Turnbull government’s agenda, which constantly changed when challenged. In the battle for hearts and minds, the Coalition became barely distinguishable from its left-wing opposition.

Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating aptly summed up the Liberal leader’s disposition, saying: “If you needed to know what Malcolm Turnbull truly believes in, what he would die in a ditch over, you would need a microscope to help you find it.”

It is his policy ambiguity, inept leadership and his lack of conviction that caused Turnbull’s parliamentary colleagues to replace him. For the party that misguidedly gave him the honour of representing it, Turnbull rapidly lost voter support. Apart from losing 38 consecutive Newspolls, the Coalition’s 35-seat majority in the House of Representatives secured by Tony Abbott, the prime minister Turnbull deposed, has, in a single term, shrunk to just one. Now, even that slender majority will be tested in tomorrow’s Wentworth by-election.

Understandably, voters in Wentworth, with a general election at best six months away, are annoyed that they are forced to go to the polls. It didn’t have to be. -Indeed, asked by The Wentworth Courier if he would stay on if he lost the leadership in a future vote, a spokesman for Turnbull replied “Yes”. In the event, Turnbull resigned and, with wife Lucy, retreated to their Central Park West New York apartment.

In the six weeks since his resignation, Turnbull has yet to offer Scott Morrison or his Wentworth successor, Dave Sharma, any formal electoral support. In fact, apart from a congratulatory tweet, he has yet to even publicly endorse Sharma.
According to Sharri Markson in The Daily Telegraph: “Dissatisfied with the outcome of a new-look government getting on with the job, Turnbull is now trying to force the issue and facilitate the downfall of the Liberal government. There have been leaks designed to damage Morrison from Turnbull’s closest confidants . . . .”

This vindictiveness has become a family affair.

Son Alex Turnbull is encouraging voters to put their money on Labor in the lead-up to the by-election, re-tweeting a post by candidate Tim Murray instructing people to donate. As he sees it: “My father fought the stupid and the stupid won.”

And if the Turnbulls’ scorched-earth policy is not handicap enough, Sharma has been ¬attacked by another LINO, former federal leader John Hewson. He wants electors of Wentworth to register a substantial protest vote against the government “or any other candidates that don’t understand the magnitude and urgency of the climate change challenge”. Hewson is a global-warming activist and a renewable-energy investor, yet rather than speak from this platform, he artfully chooses to abuse his Liberal Party credentials to inflict maximum political pain on Sharma. The Wentworth aspirant must wonder: with Liberals such as Hewson and the Turnbulls, who needs enemies?

Still, he is turning the other cheek and says he was appalled by the way his party treated Turnbull. He should hope that this wins some sympathy at the polls. Clearly Turnbull has decided his loathing for the party is greater than his regard for Sharma.
Sharma’s credentials are impressive. A Sydney businessman, he is a former public servant and was the youngest person, at 37, to be appointed as an Australian ¬ambassador.

The seat he is contesting has been held by the Liberals for 60 years. It is a wealthy electorate housing many captains of industry and prominent professionals. There is a large Jewish population and an active LGBTI community. In the plebiscite, 80 per cent of voters backed same-sex marriage. A large slice of the population is inner-city and pro-renewable energy, hence “climate change” GetUp advertising trucks urging voters: “Don’t vote Liberal”. Moreover, a leaked government-commissioned report, airing the possibility that faith-based schools could exclude people based on their sexuality, plays particularly badly in Wentworth.

Despite the 17.7 per cent buffer, recent polls are showing Sharma’s victory is not assured. Leaked Liberal Party polling shows him trailing green-left independent Kerryn Phelps by 10 points.

Time will tell. Revenge may be sweet, but there is more riding on the outcome of this election than just Wentworth. If the Liberal Party loses, the government’s majority vanishes and the state of the federal parliament becomes unpredictable. There could be many unintended consequences. Should the Liberal antagonists get their way and Sharma fails to win, it will be final confirmation that Hawke was wise to deny Turnbull so that he could work for Labor from the Liberal Party benches.

[Rorschach]

Just how many times do you need to be told Whinger?????

[LEFTWINGER supreme]

The only chance you had at winning election and you got rid of him because of Poll results, you know just like McKermit said you did.

Let's stick to the facts

[cods]

The only chance you had at winning election and you got rid of him because of Poll results, you know just like McKermit said you did.

Let's stick to the facts

we wanted you to have him back ltard... hes all yours for the next election....get him before anyone else does...

dont forget he wanted to join the ALP before he sucked in the Lib party.....

and hes already primed with HATE for the Libs... hes all yours pet...

[Black Orchid]

Maybe he can take over when they dump Shorty?

[Black Orchid]

Bitter Malcolm Turnbull has started following an Instagram page committed to ousting rival Tony Abbott from his parliamentary seat.

The ex-prime minister appeared to throw his support behind the fledgling social media campaign along with his wife Lucy on Tuesday morning.

Mr Turnbull's social media activity comes after he individually named Mr Abbott among the nine 'insurgents' he claimed conspired to depose him in August's leadership spill when he appeared on the ABC's Q&A program.

The bitter rivals have had a fractured relationship over the past decade, with Mr Abbott deposing Mr Turnbull as Liberal leader in 2009 before the latter returned the favour in 2015.

The campaign has only amassed 76 followers on the social media site, but two of them are Mr Turnbull and his wife Lucy.

Entitled 'Vote Tony Out', the page was started by resident Mark Kelly on Sunday and includes testimony from others in Abbott's Warringah seat in Sydney's north-east.

35 followers (or 76 according to the article) and 2 posts. Big whoop

Malcolm is enlisting the whole family in his vendetta. He needs to get over it and stop trying to fractionate the whole party before an election. All of our politicians are just scum and only in it for themselves and I object to having to pay them huge pensions for life just for being @holes.