I have said for a while that Turnbull's fait has been removed from his own hands and is now in the hands of Bill Shorten, god help us.

This is yet another election that is there to be lost, not won, and it's merely a case of whether or not Turnbull looses badly enough to allow Shorten to win.

I am still of the opinion the reason Turnbull will go to the polls early is not due to the threat from labor, but more due to the threat from within as I feel he has cooked his own goose. In fact, I feel he will win the election, but then face challenges from within fairly swiftly.

Just think, since 2007, just nine years, we will have three more X pm's on their tax payer life support, with perhaps a fourth to follow, either early July, if labor wins, or soon after if they don't.

It kinda makes you want to work harder so you can pay more taxes doesn't it! God knows we need more just to provide life support for those duds. Three, maybe four in just nine years is simply a joke!

Wasn't Turnbull the one in favour of the idiotic carbon tax, insisting his mate taking photos of nude girls is art, has pushed for perverting the marriage act, would never have stopped the boats and now expects conservatives to vote for him after undermining (along with the abc/national broadcasters) the elected PM. As others have pointed out Malcolm Rudd's slogans and bumbling rants make the one he knifed look like a genius. How Morrison, the treacherous Bishop and others must be kicking themselves for allowing self interest to panick them into such a foolish decision.

Runner, I thought Turnbull was in favour of an ETS, not a carbon tax which was simply a permit to pollute.