Liberal Party Archives - Page 9 of 10

A blue ribbon seat doesn’t equate to blue ribbon service.

by Jim Ball | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Infrastucture, Liberal Party

This is a metaphor for the political inertia and torpor that comes with being a blue ribbon seat. The Wakehurst floods quite regularly, probably once or twice a month and would simply not be tolerated if Mackellar was more marginal. Last weekend during the big storm...

And this is on his home turf. Malcolm Turnbull facing 10% swing in Wentworth as his popularity plummets

by Jim Ball | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog, Liberal Party

Malcolm Turnbull is facing a 10 per cent swing against him in his Sydney seat of Wentworth, according to polling that shows more than half his local electors think less of him since he became Prime Minister. The ReachTel poll conducted across the blue-ribbon Liberal...

Random Note. Pauline Hanson/Malcolm Turnbull

by Jim Ball | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes

My random note to the letters column of the Australian (below) made the cut yesterday. This triggered the complimentary response also below, in today’s Australian. “..Malcolm Turnbull just lost the election I suspect. I further suspect that his comments...

Andrew Bolt gets it right on Falinski

by Jim Ball | May 25, 2016 | Blog, Jason Falinski, Liberal Party

A brief, passing but laser accurate observation by Andrew Bolt on Jason Falinski in a broader column on the “Odious” Photios faction of the NSW Liberals. Who’d vote for these Liberals, Falinski is a “moderate” only if you put him in the Greens party....

Well, golleee. Whowouldathunkit!!!

by Jim Ball | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Liberal Party

This should come as no surprise to anyone with a pulse. “….The Liberal Party is so demoralised by Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership that some in its upper echelons are now contemplating the previously unthinkable in the event of a shock election defeat: a...