Turnbull’s ‘bedwetters’ shown the door

MORE than two-thirds of Liberal MPs suspected of voting Prime Minister Tony Abbott out of office in 2015 are no longer members of parliament. 

In a purge that has continued since September 2015, when Malcolm Turnbull’s 54 “bedwetters” knifed a first term prime minister, only 16 remain as serving MPs. 

Losing 21 disloyal henchmen in 2016 almost cost “Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition” its hold on government, squandering Mr Abbott’s huge seat count.
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Last month’s federal election saw the latest seven to go, bringing the total number of departures up to 38.

The biggest clean-out, however, occurred at the 2016 federal election immediately following Mr Abbott’s knifing, when 21 of the 54 packed their bags and left Canberra for good. [see graphic below.]

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They included former Mackellar MP Bronwyn Bishop, a once close ally of Mr Abbott, who lost her Liberal Party pre-selection to Left-leaning Jason Falinski, who subsequently departed the parliament at last month’s federal election.

Notable among other 2016 departures was first termer Wyatt Roy, who arrived in Canberra in 2013 as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-year-old.

He became Mr Turnbull’s excitable “gofer” in organising the 2015 plot and was rewarded with an assistant ministry portfolio shortly before being turfed from his Queensland seat of Longman just months later.

Losing 21 disloyal henchmen in 2016 almost cost “Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition” its hold on government at the July 2 election, squandering Mr Abbott’s huge seat count of 90 down to a single seat majority of 76.

In 2018, after a record-breaking string of opinion poll disasters, Mr Turnbull’s prime ministership was terminated in September and he left Canberra (and the country) almost immediately.

The bloodletting continued into the 2019 federal election with another eight Turnbull backers departing.

These included Mr Abbott’s disloyal deputy Julie Bishop who, after conspiring with the Member for Wentworth to roll her boss, was duly elected his deputy instead.

She left parliament in a huff in 2019 when it became clear her double-crossing activities had cost her all trust and that she’d never assume the Liberal leadership.

Sarah Henderson, the Victorian member for Corangamite, also lost her seat in 2019, however, has since been parachuted back into parliament by her factional buddies – this time as a senator.

In 2021, the Victorian senator Scott Ryan left parliament to take up a role as High Commissioner in Canada.

AFFAIRS

The seven suspected bedwetters to leave Canberra last month include Bennelong’s John Alexander, Robertson’s Lucy Wicks as well as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Ken Wyatt.

Of the 16 remaining, five are senators who remain secure as long as they retain internal factional support, while 11 are lower house MPs.

All but one lower house MP suffered primary swings against them – in some instances three to four times the average against the Liberal Party.

SUFFERED

They include Bradfield’s Paul Fletcher with a primary swing of -15.2 per cent (54-46 two party preferred), Mitchell’s Alex Hawke (-9.33%, 61-39 TPP) and Forest’s Nola Marino (-9.34%, 55-45 TPP).

Farrer’s Susan Ley is the only suspected bedwetter to improve her primary vote (1.63%), however, she suffered a TPP swing of -3.5 per cent (66-34 TTP). She has since been elected deputy Liberal leader to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. PC

MAIN PHOTOGRAPH:  Malcolm Turnbull (L) & Julie Bishop. (courtesy ABC News)

Malcolm Turnbull’s suspected ‘bedwetters’

Source:  truebluenz.com

5 thoughts on “Turnbull’s ‘bedwetters’ shown the door

  1. To all the climate change disciples…
    HOW DARE YOU! PEOPLE ARE DYING! PEOPLE ARE FREEZING! PEOPLE ARE TOO SCARED TO HEAT THEIR HOMES BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO PAY FOR THE SKYROCKETING POWER BILLS, OLD PEOPLE, YOUNG STRUGGLING FAMILIES CANT AFFORD TO KEEP THEIR CHILDREN WARM! WHAT A DISCRACE! YOU SELFISH,
    PAMPERED, SELF INDULGENT, NUMPTIES!

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  2. It’s good to know that some good came out of those election results. Notably the weather Gods don’t like Turnbull either. He suffered a recent ‘rain bomb’ on his property in the Upper Hunter NSW, and a shopping centre named the Turnbull shopping centre suffered a similar fate. He was reported to have fled to New York after those events. More than a Global Warming on him! Developers should take note!

  3. Bedwetters shown the door.

    Which goes to prove that the “black hand” of fate should not be under rated.

  4. Please don’t forget what is taking place now at the start of winter, even Albo Labor appear to have abandoned their election campaign policy to achieve over eighty per cent so called renewable (unreliable) energy supply to the electricity grid, an exercise any engineer could explain would be a very expensive exercise in futility, meaning reliable baseload electricity generators cannot be replaced by intermittently operating wind and solar, even with the expensive back up “firming” supporting them.

    This fact is now forcing Northern Hemisphere renewable energy experiments to be examined and the countries experiencing rising electricity costs and supply disruptions to revert to coal fired power stations and other reliable generators.

    Even Matt Green has joined the desperados here begging for more coal and gas generator supplies of electricity.

    The fools should have consulted private sector engineers and studied the transition to unreliable energy in other countries before falling for Labor’s RET and several billion dollars every year in subsidies for profit handed to private sector wind and solar energy businesses. And handicapping coal fired power station businesses resulting in reduced plant maintenance, lower generating hours to accommodate the intermittently operating wind and solar energy minority of grid supply sources.

    As a former manufacturing industry company manager I know how dangerous accountants and lawyers can be if involved in engineering based subjects, and I wouldn’t consult an engineer for accounting or legal advice.

    I hope Australia 2022 has finally reached the tipping point, a return to engineering based electricity generation decisions regardless of climate hoax politics (as compared to natural climate change) and crony capitalism investment into unreliable energy at the expense of we the taxpayers and consumers.

    1. By the way, one of the best descriptions of unreliable energy, based on the AEMO Capacity Factor which is the average energy supply over time being 30 to 35 per cent of Nameplate Capacity, that being the design maximum output operating continuously in perfect conditions, so Nameplate Capacity of 100MW is on average 30MW to 35MW Capacity Factor rating, is that energy production will take place 2.1 days a week, but what days cannot easily or mostly be predicted.

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