Dead Malcy walking
Posted by Scott on Monday 29 June 2009 Categories: Politics Tags: leadership, LiberalParty, MalcolmTurnbull |
Ahhhh, school holidays. You gotta love that feeling when you wake up on a Monday morning in the middle of the year and know you’ve got two lazy weeks while every other sucker is still at work. Thing is, you do tend to get bored during that fortnight if you’re not going away on holiday, so sometimes it’s nice to try and find a casual job to tide you over. With that in mind I got out of bed this morning, brewed a coffee, and got to browsing the job pages of backpacker networking site The Gumtree. And can you imagine my surprise when I found this ad:

It all made sense when I read this:
The Coalition and Malcolm Turnbull have received a devastating blow from the OzCar affair, with 53 per cent of voters saying they have a less favourable impression of the Opposition Leader as a result of it.
Mr Turnbull’s approval rating has plunged a massive 11 points while disapproval soared by 13 points in the Age/Nielsen poll taken on Thursday to Saturday. The Coalition’s two-party vote has slumped five points since May in the wake of Mr Turnbull’s call for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s resignation, which backfired spectacularly.
Even The Oz is anticipating Malcy’s political death.
Malcolm Turnbull’s political career has been smashed in just one week, and senior Liberals believe there could be moves within the party to remove him as Opposition Leader within days or weeks.
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According to a Newspoll survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian last weekend, satisfaction with Mr Turnbull’s job as Opposition Leader has suffered the single biggest fall in the survey’s 25-year history. His position is now worse than Labor’s Mark Latham ever was and is at, or lower than, the levels of Brendan Nelson when he was dumped as Liberal leader to make way for Mr Turnbull.
Accordingly, the GrodsBook is now open. Leave in comments your prediction for the date on which Malcy will resign or be forced out of the Liberal leadership. The winner, being the person with the closest prediction, will win the Liberal leadership.
