Liberal leadership declared vacant.

[Jezza]

This is eery...

48-35.

[Pies4shaw]

Here's an opinion piece about the problem at the core of this present dirty little power-struggle.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/22/whats-the-point-of-the-liberal-party-if-it-just-panders-to-an-ever-narrowing-base

Enjoy.

[stui magpie]

So that's the 3rd opinion piece, all from different perspectives.

We seem to be definitely heading toward some kind of schism where the actual far right and left are moving further away from centre and the vast majority at various points in the middle cop the fallout.

[stui magpie]

Interesting

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/here-are-the-differences-between-turnbull-and-dutton-supporters-20180822-p4zz0b.html

[Pies4shaw]

As you say, interesting but I don’t get the impression that there’s any policy basis for this. The marginals want to keep their seats and it looks like Abbott et al merely want to install Dutton with a view to taking the spot when he stuffs up and, in the short-term, to get some revenge against Malcolm. Tony hasn’t suddenly given up his desire to be PM - if he had, he would have left Parliament and taken an actual job somewhere.

[Wokko]

http://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/breaking-petition-calling-for-liberal-partyroom-meeting-circulating/

On again apparently

[stui magpie]

^

If he really loved the party as he professed, he would have retired at the last election. Instead, he sat on the back benches doing everything he said he wouldn't do while drawing a salary. Just like KRudd did.

The key difference is, KRudd was actually popular with the public, so Labor put him back in as PM expecting to lose and hoping he'd minimise the losses. Abbott is not popular personally, never has been (although he has a low bar to beat in Shorten) so they'd be certifiable to put him in charge again.

[Pies4shaw]

Or not. It’s difficult to say. You could have a look at The Age’s live blog, if it doesn’t offend your religious sensibilities to do so. They seem to have reporters who are out and about trying to track down what’s actually happening and work out who is or may be shifting sides.

[Pies4shaw]

[stui magpie]

[Jezza]

A letter requesting a party room meeting is being circulated among Liberal MPs, but the party whip's office says there is no meeting scheduled for tonight.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-22/liberal-party-leadership-dramas-august-22/10150662

[Pies4shaw]

Stui, it probably depends a little upon whether or not First Dog On The Moon’s cartoons - repeatedly depicting him with a cabbage for a head - stick. I think it’s a little unfair - I’ve come across cabbages you might have a reasonable conversation with - but I accept that my position on these things, preferring as I do that the country not have a PM with an IQ more than 2 standard deviations below the mean, will be “elitist” and “sneering” to many on here, like everything else I post.

[stui magpie]

^

fairy Nuff P4S. I don't read the Guardian as a rule, I did try for a while, but found it bad for my digestion. FWIW, typical of The Guardian, he's generally known as potato head, not cabbage head. I'm sure there's similarities somewhere.

Turnbull is possibly the most intelligent PM we've had in living memory, that hasn't served him well so far

[swoop42]

For mine a federal election should be automatically triggered if political parties wish to remove the Prime Minister of this country.

Time to stop this nonsense.

[Pies4shaw]