The most singular part about Malcolm Turnbull leadership is that he has no desire to lead anywhere except where others also on the left already want to go. On not a single issue that I can think of does he have a view in any way different from the ones held by Mark Scott, say, or the usual leftist loons at the “national broadcaster”. He is as personally empty of any deeper thoughts than the usual socialist maunderings of the mental midgets who populate our ABC. If he really does make Martin Parkinson his Chief of Staff, it will only be because he wants to rub salt in our wounds.

The first poll since the change in leader has the Coalition up at 51-49, an inconsequential improvement on the 48-52 when last taken under Abbott. This is with all of the one-sided pro-Turnbull coverage by The Australian-ABC media axis. If that part of the Parliamentary donkey vote for Turnbull were reading the comments on this blog, rather than those unrepresentative columnists in The Oz, never mind listening to the dyed-in-the-wool left media on the ABC, they might have had a better understanding of what the actual views of their own constituency are. To find that half the Parliamentary Liberal Party are Labor voters at heart is a dismal revelation that won’t be soon forgotten. If their stomachs did not turn at the very idea of voting for Turnbull, they are sitting on the wrong side of the House.