You know, there’s something awfully embarrassing about Malcolm Turnbull’s hurry to become P.M.
Safe in his position as the moderate leader of a reformed Liberal Party, Malcolm used to even agree with some of the Government’s policies, even its proposed new IR laws , on the grounds that the public gave the Government a clear mandate to ditch the mean Howard Costello efforts.
But that all changed when Peter Costello began to have shorter lunches, play less golf, and appear in the House now and again. Now we have the tough, no nonsense Malcolm who’ll show these Socialists a thing or two. Where he was going to pass the new IR Bills Malcolm,now taking a leaf out of Peter’s book, decided that there wasn’t a mandate at all. So his Party found all kinds of nits to pick, and it was left to the Greens and Senators Fielding and Xenophon to reap the glory leaving Malcolm to reap the facial eggs.
Funnily Peter was nowhere to be seen in Parliament House. He had an urgent speaking engagement in Melbourne and was no doubt carving another little picture of a top hat next to the others on his desk.
Oddly enough, although he’s now topping Malcolm in the opinion polls, one can’t help feeling, going on his past record, Peter would make a lousy leader. Imagine him now if he were PM facing the hard decisions PM Rudd has to make on a daily basis? And don’t forget he hasn’t got Geo. Dubya’s coat tails to hang onto. No man of steel, now. Just a ham faced, spoiler without his smirk and no ticker to speak of.
Maybe ‘honest John’ was really being being honest for a change.
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