Malcolm Turnbull is, without any shred of doubt, having a massively shitty day.
Cory Bernardi made the phone call to Turnbull’s office this morning to formally inform him that he planned to break away from the Liberal Party and form his own conservative party in the Senate. As part of that call, he told Turnbull something we probably all guessed anyway – the vultures in the Liberal partyroom are thinking about knifing Malcolm over his poor poll numbers.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Bernardi told Turnbull that a major reason behind his split with the Libs is Turnbull’s own scheming to boot Tony Abbott from power in 2015. He informed Turnbull that there were moves to make it happen again and he wasn’t keen to be part of it.
This follows numerous whispers that Malcolm’s garbage polling has spooked both moderate and conservative Liberals, who have allegedly been exploring options.
Bernardi was a strong supporter of Tony Abbott as leader, even though Abbott had rejected him from a frontbench role largely because he wouldn’t keep his mouth shut about his various pet obsessions.
Is it time to form our mouths around the forbidden syllables… it’s on? Is it on? Off? On? I don’t even know in this country anymore, to be quite honest.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald.
Photo: Getty Images / Stefan Postles.
