• NSW Liberals want a fed election 'this arvo' as Canberra's damage ‘unbelievable’
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New South Wales MPs agree Canberra politicians have made the Liberal brand so toxic that an early federal election is the Berejiklian Government's best hope of holding onto power at the ballot box in March. One MP told the ABC: "If we had our way, we'd like ScoMo to call an election this afternoon." However, most are not holding out hope that Prime Minister Scott Morrison will heed his predecessor Malcolm Turnbull's advice to call an election as soon as possible after the summer break. "Look, there's Buckley's chance of that happening, but it could save our bacon if it did," one minister told the ABC. "Malcolm Turnbull is just saying what everyone wants — an early federal election," said a backbencher. "The damage from the feds is just unbelievable — without an early federal poll we're going to be taken out as collateral damage and for no reason whatsoever." Two polls published over the weekend show Labor has nudged ahead of the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis. A UComms/ReachTel poll published by Fairfax newspapers suggested 50 per cent of people believe the woes besetting the Morrison Government would impact their vote in the state election. Many NSW MPs and ministers have privately hoped for an early election for months, with some previously telling the ABC they were secretly wishing the Federal Government lost the Wentworth by-election to increase the likelihood of a federal poll before the state ballot. But now they are discussing ways to distance themselves more clearly from their federal counterparts if the NSW Government is the next to face voters' judgement. ... Read more at NSW Liberals want a federal election 'this afternoon' as Canberr.. Tl;dr the New South Wales state election is scheduled for March, but Scott Morrison is likely to announce the next federal election for May. The NSW Liberals fear that all the bullshit by the federal Liberals will cause electoral disaster (as it did for the state Liberals in Victoria last week) unless the federal election is held before the NSW election.
Damn, beat me to it lol. It's interesting the state libs recognise the huge fuckup ScoMo's coup is and not the feds.
It was hardly ScoMo’s coup, given that Scotty was a tactical candidate put forward to prevent Dutton winning the spill, and Scotty was Malcolm’s own preferred successor. Quite a few of the federal Libs have recognised just how bad things are fucked, most notably Julia Banks.
I'm down, give me 30 mins and I'll be ready.
The tactical candidate would have been to leave Malcolm where he was.
I have to say, watching the Liberal Party collapse in on itself has been incredibly satisfying to watch. No wonder Malcolm Turnbull never got anything done, he must have spent his whole Prime Ministership trying to keep the party unified and to no avail.
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