Mark Steyn describes the Liberal party as “gangrenous and pustulating”, following the latest coup. He makes special reference to his “friend” Julie Bishop, whom he describes as “the Black Widow of the Liberal Party - she mates, she kills - but this time it all went awry and she shot the venom into her own leg.”

After explaining to his American audience that the Australian Liberal party is supposed to be a party of “classical liberals”, he opined that it is now “a loveless ménage of conservatives, semi-lefties and finger-in-the-windy opportunists”; an “uneasy coalition transformed into a disciplined electoral powerhouse under John Howard”, but which “now lies ruined”. He says it's easy to blame Turnbull, “because it's true”, and that Turnbull was “stupid in a way that only clever people can be”.

Steyn has had personal contact with Turnbull, and describes him as “thin-skinned and undisciplined. And that's not the kind of guy you want to make party leader”. Unfortunately for we Australians, the Black Hand gang and their toadies did just that. If only they had consulted Steyn before they knifed Abbott!

Turnbull could have justified stabbing Abbott in the back if he had governed “brilliantly” after the act; but, says Steyn, Turnbull “governed ineptly, selfishly, and pettily”, as some of us know only too well.

Turnbull was “a wealthy globalist disconnected from the concerns of the electorate” (how true), and he “decided to be the anti-Abbott by minimizing any differences between his party and the opposition”, thus giving us the 'Labor lite, (not all that light) we had to endure for far too long.

Turnbull “went in small and came out smaller”.

It's a great pity that Australians are not as perceptive whenit comes to our politicians as this foreigner is.

pity that Australians are not as perceptive whenit comes to our politicians
ttbn,
New Australians seem to be more patriotic than those educated here.

OK. Let's then take a look at the new leader who the
Liberal Party has chosen to replace Turnbull with -
Scott Morrison.

He was a Liberal right wheeler and dealer positioned in
NSW and was always going to go places.

A man who counts John Howard as his political inspiration.

So lets look at Morrison's record.

He led the charge on Australia's tough immigration policy.
He voted to give banks a $17bn tax cut. He cut $17bn
from schools. He cut $700m from local hospitals. He
supported cuts to penalty rates. He voted to raise the
pension age to 70 and to cut the pension. He voted against
the Banking Royal Commission - 26 times. He voted against
same sex marriage.

All in all when it comes to middle and working-class
Australians - it appears that the man is out of touch.

So yes, the man is definitely not Malcolm Turnbull in a
cheaper suit. But is he the man to win the next election
for the Liberal Party?

Let his voting record speak for itself.

Hands up who likes Josh Frydenburg?

Me, Me, Me!

The bloke's got great potential.

I don't know about newcomers being more 'patriotic' individual, but the lack of interest in things that affect all Australians is embarrassing. There is no need for fanaticism, but people saying that they are not interested in politics are pretty dumb. There is not much that isn't political theses days.

Foxy,
if, what you state is correct about the pension age & pension then He's already a goner.
Unless of course he manages the country's econonmics so well that workers can afford to pay into Super funds but that still leaves the retirement age. Anyone who works outside & on building sites & other physically demanding places then that alone is sufficient to write him off already & anyone supporting these heinous policies.