The bull will turn. Ol’ Malcolm will be back!

He’ll take up a sensible part of the Green agenda by actually doing something meaningful about climate change, or I should say; about weaning our society off of its critical addiction to oil.

Well….hopefully his concern about climate change will lead to this.

And he’ll ignore the stupid part of the Green agenda which would be to allow the boats to continue to come and in large numbers. He’ll stop the boats, and hopefully boost our input into refugee issues in other ways – via our formal offshore aid programs.

Yep, he certainly does seem like the most sensible politician, ex-party leader, potential new leader and potential PM, around at the moment.

I reckon there is a very high chance of him being PM in three years time.

One would expect Mr Turnbull to take over the reins of Liberal leadership at some point. My prediction on other threads was that Labor would scrape in and Turnbull would be reinstated as a consequence. As the election campaign developed, it became clear that things were going to be a trite more complicated.
My opinion is that Turnbull reversed his decision to leave politics in the wake of Mr Rudd's all but dumping of the ETS - the thing that Malcolm stood up for, and which ultimately lost him the top job.
I must admit that I was rather inspired when I heard that he was coming back for more (and I'm more inclined in Labor's direction). I popped onto his website shortly after his announcement to return and was intrigued by the number of people leaving comments of support who claimed that they were Labor voters but would happily vote Liberal if he was leading that party.

"...the number of people leaving comments of support who claimed that they were Labor voters but would happily vote Liberal if he was leading that party."

Well that just says it all doesn't it?

Unfortunately standing for a principle is not enough. The principle has to be sound in the first place. There's plenty of politicians who stand for the principle of socialist grabbing.

If Julia gets up in the next couple of days, Abbott will be dead meat. The Liberal Party will then have to decide whether to let Lord Turnbull rule the roost again despite his gross treachery.

Politics is a strange thing and it attracts strange people, many of whom are closet megalomaniacs. Malcolm is one of them! Rudd was another as was Howard.

Julia? It remains to be seen.

Standing for a principle is great, as long it is for your own principle, and not just "The party principle" as I've heard others say so often, and is in all of the parties demand when you join their party, " I promise to agree with the decisions of the majority of the party". If you stick to what you know and what you truly believe in, I can't see where you can go wrong - that is of course as long as your intelligence is up to scratch, and then people can decide on YOUR decision, and not on that of half a dozen people who have promised that they have no integrity and not much intelligence, which seems to be the trouble most of the time. I certainly am hoping for a group of people who are intelligent, and have the utmost of integrity and courage, it would certainly be a breath of fresh air, and a turning point towards honest, prosperous government, wouldn't it, we need it.

Turnball, the man who stood for something? Yes, but not what you're thinking I imagine.

The only reason he stood for an ETS is fear that the coalition would get wiped out at a double dissolution election, he was terrified that PM Rudd would carry out his threat to go to the polls over the greatest moral issue of our times, able supported by Julia Gillard, right up till she realised the ETS was not a showstopper, and dumped it.

Turnbull stands for whatever is convenient to his own position, the only principles being power and money, well he has buckets of money so that only leaves .. power.

He still thinks an ETS might get up and he's already so committed that way he can't back down, he's personally protected by his wealth from any "possible" effects, and you never know, there might be a buck in it - and with Turnbull, the buck will stop with him. Unlike our current flock of ALP liars who "take responsibility", but don't do they, he really will see it through.

Abbott won't be deposed if the coalition don't form government, he has proved he is a man of conviction, and a TEAM player, unlike Turnbull was was clearly not a team player - the coalition is a team.

The independents all left the Nationals for various reasons, mainly big egos,, let's see how they survive in the ALP/Green/Whatever Wilkie is/Independents government - may they spin themselves out of government next term forever.

What we need then is a double dissolution election, so we can exterminate the full senate as well, and get back to responsibility in government.