Peta Credlin: Entitled grandees like Malcolm Turnbull trying to teal Liberal votes
Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t seem grateful the Liberal Party once gave him the prime ministership. What’s with these entitled grandees thinking their personal political preference is all that counts? Peta Credlin asks.
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With the government fighting for its life against bad polls, an unfavourable redistribution and the wear and tear that comes from being nine years old, the last thing it needs is “friendly fire”.
But that’s just what it got from Washington last week from someone who doesn’t seem very grateful that the Liberal Party once gave him the prime ministership.
Mind you Malcolm Turnbull wasn’t the only ingrate, even if he was the most predictable. Former Liberal senate leader Fred Chaney also dumped on the party that had put him into parliament, announcing that its supposedly hard line views were forcing him to vote for his niece, who’s running as one of the teal independents in Perth’s poshest seat of Curtin.
What’s with these entitled grandees thinking their personal political preference is all that counts?
With the Opposition leader doing his best to lose the election via repeated gaffes, Labor’s best hope of victory – certainly its insurance policy – may be a hung parliament, with the prime ministership then in the hands of so-called independents: the teal wannabes, assembled by Simon Holmes a Court (another entitled millionaire who stands to get even richer out of his renewable energy investments if his teals gain influence), now campaigning against the Liberal Party for supposedly not doing enough on climate change and integrity in government.
No prizes for guessing whom they’d prefer out of Albanese or Morrison.
As Albanese stumbled on the NDIS last week, out came Turnbull to try to save him, virtually begging Liberal voters to switch, saying that, “if more of these teal independents win, it will (stop) the capture of the Liberal Party” by what he calls the hard right even though what he regards as ‘hard right’ polices are actually what the Liberals used to stand for before he stole the top job and tried to wrench the party to the left.
When door-stopped after his vitriolic speech in the US, the former Liberal leader was shameless, pointedly refusing to say he’d vote Liberal.
You’ve got to ask, haven’t you, what possessed the Liberal Party to make this bloke leader – not once, but twice?
Although there is some irony here: it’s the bedwetters who made him PM in 2015 that are most at risk of losing their seats this time around.
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