It’s open warfare now:
Political commentator Peta Credlin says cabinet ministers are losing faith in Malcolm Turnbull and suggesting he will knife the Liberal Party, and defended Tony Abbott amid allegations he is undermining the government.
Ms Credlin, who was Mr Abbott’s chief of staff during his prime ministership and previously worked for Mr Turnbull, hit out at the Prime Minister over comments he made on the weekend suggesting he would resign from parliament if he lost the prime ministership.
“I think they’re extraordinary comments, actually,” Ms Credlin told Sky News last night.
“The comments yesterday where he said basically ‘sack me and I’ll quit’, reinforced a lot of the concerns everyone’s always had about Malcolm and the Liberal Party.
“(The weekend’s comments) reinforced this question mark people have always had over the Prime Minister that it’s not about the Liberal Party, it’s not about conservative values, it’s actually about Malcolm, and as one of his cabinet colleagues said to me today, and this is extraordinary, he said; ‘This is the guy that knifed Peter King to get the seat, knifed Brendan (Nelson) to become leader, knifed Tony Abbott to become Prime Minister, and the next knife’s obviously coming the Liberal Party’s way,’ and I thought if colleagues are prepared to say that sort of stuff now, I’m not a journalist, I’m a former staffer, so they know me well, but that’s a pretty extraordinary comment to come from a cabinet colleague,” Ms Credlin said.
Amazing how Incredlin turned from Murdoch punching bag to Murdoch attack dog.
Poll crash ahead.
