Should Malcolm Turnbull resign from tonys cabinet

[Black Orchid]

I can access it, no problem.

[IQS.RLOW]

It would be nice if occassionally people actually posted the text and not just links that not everyone has access to.

Why can't you access the site Mel posted? It's just an Andrew Bolt opinion piece.

The Herald Sun has that fangdangled new whiny bitch blocker software installed, is my guess.

[boxy]

It would be nice if occassionally people actually posted the text and not just links that not everyone has access to.

Why can't you access the site Mel posted? It's just an Andrew Bolt opinion piece.

If you block cookies by default, you wont get through without allowing them for the site.

And frankly, just to read Bolt's usual rants, not worth the effort

[mellie]

The site loads badly and I suspect IQS is right re- cookies etc.


So I will put an extract of the interview here.

HERALD Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has pointed the finger squarely at Malcolm Turnbull after today’s failed Liberal leadership spill vote.

Andrew Bolt told Channel 10 after the vote: “If Tony Abbott doesn’t seize this last gasp opportunity ... Malcolm Turnbull will be prime minister.”



He said: “There’s not a person in Australia that doesn’t know that Malcolm Turnbull wanted that job.”

Bolt said many Liberal figures would be questioning the point of it all.

“A lot of Liberal members who were already saying they were going to tear up their membership if Turnbull got in would be saying Malcolm Turnbull, you have caused all this damage to the party ... you have really trashed the place, and got this result?

“Turnbull could have ended this by these simple words — ‘I will not stand, if nominated I will not accept’.”

Bolt also said he didn’t think Chief of Staff Peta Credlin will be a casualty despite having been a ‘lightning rod for discontent”.

Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott in the House of Representatives after the party meeting.
Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott in the House of Representatives after the party meeting.
“I don’t think she’ll go, but if he doesn’t broaden his circle ... he’s finished.”

Bolt said the onus was on Abbott to respond to the message.

“Rather than sack Peta Credlin, he must change.”

In his Herald Sun blog, Bolt wrote:

“(Abbott) won more votes than he feared but fewer than he’d like.

“All that damage caused by Malcolm Turnbull and others - for this?

“You would assume Abbott has been given a last chance of some months.

“But Turnbull may do this maths:

Number of ministers, parliamentary secretaries and whips who were obliged to vote against the spill: 35. (Let’s assume none, even Turnbull, ratted in the semi-secret ballot.)

“Number of ministers, parliamentary secretaries and whips who would, if allowed, vote for Turnbull: say, 13:

“Add the 13 to the 39 who voted for the spill: 52.

“That is a narrow majority of the 102 Liberal MPs.

“But did all the 39 who voted for the spill want Turnbull? I know some preferred Julie Bishop. “There there’s the one informal vote and the Queensland MP, Ross Vasta, who couldn’t make it to the meeting.

“So what’s Turnbull’s next move? What’s Abbott’s?”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victor ... 7213047311

[mellie]

I really am getting tired of the sloppyness of the heralds reporters, re- typo's etc.

I feel compelled to edit and spell check their articles.

[Black Orchid]

I go crazy trying to read the illiteracy of online articles. The spelling is woeful and the grammar is even worse. ESL or just the shame of the education department?

[mellie]

[boxy]

Liberals, eating their own... but still, not like the Labor party

Cool story, bro

[mellie]

I am an animal lover, and especially love cats.

This is why Malcolm and I will never see eye to eye.


http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/18/lov ... unearthed/


Here kitty kitty.....


Apparently (Diamond) Jim McClelland, Fiona’s step-father was disturbed by her story about the cat. He said of Turnbull:

He’s a turd. He’s easy to loathe, he’s a sh-t, he’d devour anyone for breakfast, he’s on the make, he’s cynical, he’s offensively smug.

What on earth would have given him that notion?

[mellie]

And what did Malcolm Turnbull say when Tony won the leadership ballot?

"Theres more than one way to strangle a cat."


And he would know.