From raging troglodyte Peter Dutton today with Ray Hadley:
Mr Dutton also said the Coalition needed to “expose” Labor’s scare campaigns and turn the polls around in the lead up to the next election.
“One of the things we didn’t do at the last election was neutralise the GetUp!! and the Labor Party’s scare campaigns on Medicare and otherwise,” he told 2GB Radio.
“It’s easy to scare people in politics and Shorten has mastered it. And we have to expose it and if we do that and continue to do that in the run up to the election then we will see the polls turn around.”In Monday’s Newspoll Mr Turnbull lost ground to Labor leader Bill Shorten as preferred prime minister, with his lead reduced to only 41 per cent to 32 per cent.
…Hadley: “Now we’re up to 10. So at what stage does Mr Turnbull say well look I’m almost half as bad as Tony Abbott was, I (sic) better just pass the baton to someone else.
“What happens after five more, he gets to 15 does he say then enough is enough? Because he raised the spectre on that day of Newspoll being a measure of the fact that he was challenging for the Prime Ministership. That’s what he did.
Dutton: Well Ray that’s a fair point and Malcolm Turnbull wouldn’t step back from that point. What we need to do is to turn polls around if that’s the measure we have to make tough decisions as the Howard government did, as the Abbott government did.
“They are not always popular; it’s hard when you’ve got a budget that’s going close to half a trillion dollars’ worth of debt that Labor racked up and we’ve got a Senate that’s made of independents.
Folks don’t blame Labor they blame you, Pete. You’re the government. It’s a basic truth that does not seem to register with the political hacks.
As for five more Newspoll failures, it might well be one hundred more. The Coalition faces annihilation unless and until it cuts immigration to destroy One Nation.
The next election is probably only eighteen months or more away owing to the double dissolution last time so I would probably wait until early next year before dumping Do-nothing then ride the immigration cut honeymoon into a Q3 poll with whichever troglodyte is chosen to replace him.
