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Malcolm's Boom, Boom, Bust! He peaked early on achievements with Dames and Knights, should have paced himself.

Tuesday, 08 March 2016

Newspoll: Malcolm Turnbull’s satisfaction rating on the slide

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Voter confidence in Malcolm Turnbull’s performance has ­tumbled to a five-month low and ­dissatisfaction with the Prime Minister has reached the highest level since he seized the leadership from Tony Abbott in ­September.

The latest Newspoll, taken exclusively for The Australian, also shows that despite stronger than expected economic growth figures last week and the release of its defence white paper, the ­Coalition has failed to lift its standing, remaining deadlocked with Labor at 50-50 in two-party terms.

Bill Shorten has posted the third consecutive rise in his stocks, lifting satisfaction with his performance to a level not seen since Mr Abbott was prime minister, although Mr Turnbull still remains overwhelmingly the preferred prime minister.

The latest Newspoll of 1815 people taken from Thursday to Sunday shows the massive popularity Mr Turnbull enjoyed late last year has dissipated as the government has fumbled its tax policy and been wracked by continuing internal division.

Read more and see more of the Newspoll results at The Australian.

 

And a reminder of the arrogance obvious in the first month of Malcolm, we published this on:

SATURDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2015

Newly installed back-room-deal PM lectures NSW Libs about backroom deals. They laughed. Loudly.

In this short clip, newly installed Prime Minister Turnbull courteously delivered 3 pieces of what seemed to be news to the NSW Liberal Party.

  • We are not run by factions
  • We are not run by big business
  • We are not run by back room deals

There was something about the first 12 excruciating seconds of being laughed at that Malcolm missed.

Leaders either back up controversial statements or graciously accept a hostile audience's feedback.

First Turnbull tried to wave the laughter away.   Then, as if he was desperate to prove suspicions about his arrogance, he said "You may dispute that, but I can tell you from experience, we're not run by factions".

The message was received loud and clear.    Malcolm knows things other people don't.    Malcolm has experience beyond the reach of mortals.  And Malcolm doesn't need  feedback from you lot thank you very much.

He lost them at "I can tell you from experience we're not..." but Chairman Mal's arrogance dial was set to 11 and he ploughed on.

The former Chairman of Goldman Sachs told the newsagents and chemists their party was not run by big business.   That changed the mood from mockery to something much darker.   Even Malcolm felt it, right in the nose (about 20 seconds in)

Why on earth did he bother proceeding to point 3?   

Just weeks after stitching up a backroom deal befitting a factional-number-crunching-merchant-banker-from-the-big-end-of-town, the deal-personified told them their Party was not run by this sort of rubbish (courtesy of the Australian Financial Review)

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Chairman Mal's party relies on the ideas, and the energy and the enterprise of its membership.

That would be the people right there Mal, right in front of you.  

"Who?"

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