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Dismantling the Liberal bomb…
The two most important things we’ve learned about Malcolm Turnbull of late are these: that he should probably have joined the Labor Party, and that he’d probably make a very good prime minister.
The former is a hypothetical; the latter fast becoming one.
For many reasons, the former barrister and investment banker is the proverbial square peg in the round hole. And as much as his dwindling group of supporters keep hammering him in, Turnbull just isn’t going to fit. Too many others – both inside and outside the Liberal Party – are busy hammering shut his political coffin.
At a Liberal Party celebration last night, the Opposition Leader declared Kevin Rudd the “Bradman of boredom”.
There’s a lot of things you can say about the Liberal Party leader – boring isn’t one of them. Yet his dynamism, his barely-concealed radicalism at least from the prevailing political centre, is largely responsible for his slow demise.
To continue the analogy, he’s the brilliant limited-overs slogger who’s exciting to watch but rarely sees out the innings.
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