As another branch drops off the dying Liberal Party tree – federal director, Tony Nutt – Terry Barnes in The Spectator today opines that Nutt is a scapegoat for “ for the lacklustre and unimpressive election campaign of the prime minister himself.”

This sounds pretty right. Turnbull is starting to look like the John Cleese character, chopped to pieces by another 'knight', still screaming defiance and acting like a winner.

Turnbull sowed disloyalty and will more than likely reap disloyalty.

It,s time to call an election, we can not do any worse surely. We are going no where.
Australia is in auto mode. Nothing accomplished and nothing gained.

Would you place your trust in this man?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf4nlIEHfaU

Leoj,

Shorten is irrelevant to any discussion on Turnbull. No sane person would want Shorten as PM; no sane person would want a socialist Labor government made up of its current politicians, given the mess Labor dropped Australia in.

But, that's no excuse for Turnbull, who has done absolutely nothing to repair Labor's damage. The reason that Turnbull is not the leader of the Labor party is that the Labor party rejected him. Leadership, or what passes for leadership with him, is all he is interested in: he has no values at all - he stands for nothing except Malcolm Turnbull. He's a 'nothing' person.

doog,

can it get worse? You just need to remember Krudd and juliar

A timely quote from today's Spectator:

"Turnbull is a second term prime minister who squandered his predecessor’s mandate and who’s passing would be mourned mostly by people who vote Labor"

The mandate left for him. That mandate was built on lies and deceit. And you know where he ended up. He won an election on the back of a scam, which had nothing to do with his intentions. A self styled dictator, that his own party could not hack.

doog,

How would you describe this man, the pretender for the throne?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf4nlIEHfaU

ttbn,

I am not a blind supporter of Turnbull.

However I will say that both LNP and Labor leaders have so often been 'supported' by yes-(wo)men and by ministers and a back bench who are busily taking care of themselves. Imagine a rowing crew where all but the Stroke are doing whatever they please and then blaming the Stroke for a wayward, floundering boat.

That suits the media who stereotype to dumb-down the public, sensationalise and play 'gotcha'. Not many real journalists required for that. Or in the case of the ABC, the overflow of journalists can hang over the coffee machine.

Turnbull takes far too much notice of the media circus. That is understandable I guess where that very large publicly-funded outfit, the ABC, has a lean to the green left and is banging away every day and for decades past on socialist 'Progressive' themes.

leoj.

You are too intelligent to support any Australian politician blindly.

I loathe the Opposition and dread its return; but I cannot see anyone in the Coalition who is a proper conservative or worth a pinch of poop. I have reached the dreadful conclusion that Australia is rooted, and and conservatism is dead. The problem can be cured, but I doubt that it will be.

I doubt that at all. Turn bulls passing would be appreciated by labor voters. His hand has been directed by the far right. And that is why he has a hostile senate
If his legislation was any good it would pass without delay.

If he was going to get voted out it would have happened at the last election. He's helping out his rich mates, will ride out the low popularity, and campaign like crazy to look like he's a good guy to ordinary Australians come the next election. And on it goes...

That is a prediction without reservation. You must reckon Australians are idiots.
With 22 seats lost at the last DD election he was lucky to be there. He must have been sweating like an overgrown pig.
Hamstrung by the conservative element of the liberal party. He made noises like a middle ground man, but that cannot be.

and yes Shadow...Fuhrer Abbott...I shudder to admit, at this low point in our political history - bereft as we are of anyone resembling a "leader"...even he would have been a better bet than the ex Australian Republican Movement, ex Labor wannabe currently warming the furniture at Kirribilli. You and your ilk evidently voted for Mal Function (or at least the Liberal Party), so you got what you voted for...ha ha ha !

A country run by public opinion polls to decide the leader needs to seriously look at itself in the mirror.

Alfie my Abbott can not be leader because he was judged unsuitable by the voters of Australia.

We were fed an enormous amount of lies, the level of dishonesty was with out bounds.
And that is what good Australian citizens took to the election that saw the worst liar in history elected as prime minister. But as history shows it was all a fraud. The Australian people were dumbfounded by his actions and rightly rejected his position on the throne.

This candidate can never be trusted with any sort of language. It is going to take a labor govt to bring the imposter to justice.

That is why the runty bloke on the back bench can never be leader. So let's not insult the intelligence of the au people.

This disgusting little man has followers, I believe them to be as disgusting as he is. They excuse his dreadful behaviour, his never ending lies fed to the au voters as OK in their view.

"I am not a blind supporter of Turnbull" The words of a blind Hansonite. No one is pushing the Lovely Pauline for PM barrow these days. What happened? Joh's dead, Clive's gone. who do you guys have left? Corny Banana.

Big swings against the Liberals in NSW by-elections, up to 25%