An imminent train wreck that has been coming a long time…
Supporters of an overthrow of the Australian PM are phoning in, numbers are being tallied:
by Simon Benson, Dennis Shanahan, Joe Kelly, The Australian
The leadership crisis engulfing Malcolm Turnbull has deepened, with cabinet ministers privately accusing the Prime Minister of cobbling together his plan to cap retail power prices in a last-minute bid to save his leadership.
The Australian is aware that a number of MPs called Home Affairs Minister and leading Queensland conservative Peter Dutton at the weekend to pledge support should he seek to challenge Mr. Turnbull.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott told a Tasmanian Young Liberals meeting at the weekend he was looking forward to serving under a “Dutton government”.
Even PM’s allies ask: what use is he to us?
Simon Benson, National Affairs Editor, The Australian, says the word is that the challenge is “inevitable”.
Malcolm Turnbull is in full capitulation mode. In the face of a possible and increasingly likely challenge, he has buckled to rebel MPs, and in the process surrendered the future of his leadership to the demands of a few.
It’s not the demands of a few, it’s the preference of about 4.8 million voters. Let’s do a plebiscite?
A defining moment has arrived for a decision between two competing ideas. Does the Liberal Party return to the conservative values that have provided the ballast for its most successful periods in government, aligned with a center-right orthodoxy, or does it continue with the moderate, centrist experiment?
At the heart of it are two interpretations of the Menzies era. Turnbull has argued that the founder of the modern Liberal Party was a moderate. Conservatives violently disagree. They are forced to this crossroad largely through human folly.
What centrist? Since when was mass taxation to change the weather a centrist experiment? Since when did centrists control almost every aspect of the market, supply, demand, the product, the price, and call it “free”?
Four prime ministers look set to be taken down in their first term. The real problem is that the nation is bullied into not discussing big ideas, like the plan to stop storms with our electricity generators (and there are other sacred cows too).
Politicians are trying to foist a fantasy plan on the masses. The masses are not happy.
Get your popcorn. The ABC and Fairfax (or what’s left of it) will be slapped by reality again.
The ABC tonight has the insipid: “Turnbull plans more energy policy changes amid internal pressure‘
While The Australian was talking to key players, the ABC was quoting twitter and interviewing the opposition and the Greens.
Along with that non-event, at the top of the ABC-politics page is the classic Lara Tingle Analysis “Abbott’s Influence waning within Coalition”.
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As we all know by now Liberals always want more rules and regulations on everybody and restiction’s as well and say THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS but want themselves exampt from those same rules and regulations
The Liberal government in the province of Ontario Canada tried the Hail Mary cap energy prices tactic after running the province into the ground and it was far to little to late after screwing generations through virtue policy mistakes . They also committed outright fraud trying to cover their tracks while destroying documents . A chapter out of the Clinton play book . $Billions in added unnecessary costs to tax payers and
no measurable effect on the earths temperature . A stupid waste of money .
Good luck Australia … kick the virtue pretending politicians out before they do the same thing .
From the article, “cobbling together his plan to cap retail power prices in a last-minute bid to save his leadership.” The reality is price controls almost always lead to shortages.
On another note, it is too bad that other places such as California and Germany haven’t had a revolt against action on climate change. Perhaps in these locations the media has been more successful in keeping the facts from the people.