If you were to compile a list of people whose lives you wish you were living right now, Malcolm Turnbull would not figure particularly highly. According to the latest Newspoll, voters have swung even further to Labor, and Turnbull‘s stand as preferred prime minister has plummeted.
According to he polling, published in The Australian, Labor now leads the Coalition 55-to-45 on a two-party-preferred basis, and the Coalition’s primary vote has fallen from 35 to 34 percent.
The polling was conducted in the wake of the citizenship scandal which has rocked the entire Parliament, but the Coalition worst of all. It seems voters aren’t too keen on how that reflects on ol’ Malcolm. They’re making that clear through his personal ratings: he’s dropped like a stone in the preferred prime minister stakes, from 41 to 36 percent.
Bill Shorten still lags here, but only by a bee’s dick – he’s sitting pretty at 34 percent. This probably just proves that nobody in Australia particularly likes any offering they’ve been given for prime minister. Though voters are much keener on the idea of Julie Bishop as leader of the Liberal Party:
#Newspoll Preferred LIB Leader: Turnbull 27 Bishop 40 Dutton 11 #auspol
— GhostWhoVotes (@GhostWhoVotes) November 12, 2017
Labor is now in the strongest overall position they’ve been in since Turnbull knifed Tony Abbott all the way back in September 2015. Remember 2015? Things were so simple then.
With the same-sex marriage result looming, and the citizenship issue likely to get worse before it gets better, it looks like things aren’t so swell for Turnbull.
