The Liberal party under Turnbull is in strife
It is not particularly far-fetched to claim that the Liberal Party is in big strife.
Some would say it’s nearing an existential crisis, particularly at the national level. Party membership over the last three or four years has fallen precipitously.
The numbers aren’t made public but some guess it’s about half what it was.
And many of those who on election day manned (to use a word no doubt banned in today’s ultra- PC Australian military) the polling precincts and handed out the ‘how to vote’ cards – to say nothing of knocking on doors earlier – well, they simply refuse to do so under this Team Turnbull/Black Hand manifestation of the Liberal Party.
I speak from personal experience on that front from the last election and can assure you that the party base is even angrier now than then and that volunteers will be even thinner on the ground next federal election if the leadership remains as it is
There is a fascinating force at work in Australian politics. Have you noticed how Fairfax, the ALP-Green axis, the ABC and virtually every miserable handwringer keeps attacking Tony Abbott? They are besotted with destroying him and I have wondered why this is so, given that he is no longer in office
. I think I have found the answer and it is because they are afraid of him. So they want to discredit him utterly before he comes back to lead the coalition parties. The universal Left in all its manifestations attacks virtually no-one else in the government and certainly attacks no-one with the venom and enthusiasm they direct at Abbott. And who can blame them for ignoring the others? They are simply no threat. The critics are afraid of virtually none of the allegedly major figures in the government, including the PM because they pose no threat and generate no fear. After the Queensland election, the internal ructions, leaks, bad polls and alienation of the base, Mr Turnbull is a dead man walking at the head of a zombie army staggering to an inevitable fate that they brought on themselves. The Liberal party cannot go on like this or it will be destroyed. It needs someone who can strike fear into its opponents, cut through the mush and mirrors that surround every issue, actually believes in some basic principles and gives the followers a reasonable hope of winning.
That person is clearly Abbott. Now, the big argument against this is that Abbott was suited to opposition but not to government. What those critics overlook is that the coalition parties are now in de facto opposition. What they need is someone who can demolish Shorten and his crazy socialism and strike fear into the Left. They and the media will froth at the mouth with rage and fury at the return of Abbott and that is the point. The choice is clear. To continue the zombie march to oblivion or generate enthusiasm behind a leader who fills the other side with terror.
quote from Spectator
There is a fascinating force at work in Australian politics. Have you noticed how Fairfax, the ALP-Green axis, the ABC and virtually every miserable handwringer keeps attacking Tony Abbott? They are besotted with destroying him and I have wondered why this is so, given that he is no longer in office
. I think I have found the answer and it is because they are afraid of him. So they want to discredit him utterly before he comes back to lead the coalition parties. The universal Left in all its manifestations attacks virtually no-one else in the government and certainly attacks no-one with the venom and enthusiasm they direct at Abbott. And who can blame them for ignoring the others? They are simply no threat. The critics are afraid of virtually none of the allegedly major figures in the government, including the PM because they pose no threat and generate no fear. After the Queensland election, the internal ructions, leaks, bad polls and alienation of the base, Mr Turnbull is a dead man walking at the head of a zombie army staggering to an inevitable fate that they brought on themselves. The Liberal party cannot go on like this or it will be destroyed. It needs someone who can strike fear into its opponents, cut through the mush and mirrors that surround every issue, actually believes in some basic principles and gives the followers a reasonable hope of winning.
That person is clearly Abbott. Now, the big argument against this is that Abbott was suited to opposition but not to government. What those critics overlook is that the coalition parties are now in de facto opposition. What they need is someone who can demolish Shorten and his crazy socialism and strike fear into the Left. They and the media will froth at the mouth with rage and fury at the return of Abbott and that is the point. The choice is clear. To continue the zombie march to oblivion or generate enthusiasm behind a leader who fills the other side with terror.
quote from Spectator