Andrew Bolt's Blog,22/10/18; Abbott and the Conservatives need far less of a swing against them to be obliterated;

 Buffett certainly doesn't bother about Murdoch's men

 

The person with the most to fear from Wentworth debacle

"swing even as half as big as the one in Wentworth would likely end Tony Abbott's 25-year career in Parliament. "

"These are ominous signs for Abbott's future. The former prime minister played a key role in the demise of Turnbull and has led the charge against any substantial policy to reduce Australia's emissions. Who can forget Abbott once said the science behind climate change was "absolute crap"?
Warringah sits across the other side of Sydney Harbour to Wentworth but has some remarkably similar demographics. While the Liberal Party risks losing Wentworth from what should be a very safe margin of nearly 18 per cent, Abbott holds Warringah by a much smaller 11.1 per cent."
 

SHOCK: SHARMA MAY YET WIN

The Liberals may yet win Wentworth: Dave Sharma is winning an astonishing 64 per cent of the postal votes (after preferences), after winning just 48 per cent of votes at the ballot box. This has so far slashed Kerryn Phelps' margin to 884 votes. But it also suggests that the Liberals' last week of campaigning disasters were critical to the result.

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 Bolt can only hope. His banner "Shock" is typical Bolt. All style but little analysis or meaning of his own. What there is, taken from Fairfax's Age with a panic coating inserted by Bolt for, style like a cheap suit. The intent is to claim he was right and if the dominoes fell his way to brag incessantly. If wrong buried not mentioned again it's a Bolt method repeated time and time again. It's what has been called loose commentary by wiser men. 

Generally, over the years Bolt's been wrong yet claimed the high ground as he moves on as if nothing happened. This swing against Sharma no matter win or lose has been a disaster and no more so than for Bolt's conservatives and his foremost dog in the forthcoming poll in 2019 Tony Abbott. The referencing of Abbott as Bolt's dog, by the way, was Andrew Bolt's. He used it when Abbott lost his leadership and Turnbull was facing his first election. Bolt said he's lost interest in politics as he hadn't a dog in the race.
Dr Phelps had a lead of 1626 votes in the update posted by the Australian Electoral Commission at 6.45pm on Sunday, securing 37,719 votes in two-party terms compared to 36,093 for Mr Sharma.

TURNBULL IS THE ENEMY OF THE LIBERALS

Surely the Wentworth disaster will force the Liberals to draw a line. Right through Malcolm Turnbull’s name.  The former prime minister must be damned as a traitor and unwelcome at any Liberal function after what he’s done to them - and not just in Wentworth.

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 It seems as if all Liberal leaders die and are placed on the totem pole of shame by Conservatives. Using the laws of cause and effect, however, Dutton, Abbott's puppet tried to roll Turnbull it wasn't the other way round. Here we have Bolt attempting to frame Turnbull for the result in Wentworth. The dominoes fall in an order clearly seen by the electorate and the electorate voted the Liberals out not Turnbull. Bolt's never really been a leader when it comes to either commentary or news he relies on the opposition to cherry pick from and lead his work. In this case it's been the Fairfax Age and more often than not the ABC.

SACKING TURNBULL WASN'T THE REAL PROBLEM

The Liberals didn’t suffer a huge swing in the Wentworth by-election just because they sacked Malcolm Turnbull. The massive difference in support for candidate Dave Sharma in the postal ballots sent before Saturday (63.6 per cent, after preferences) and in the ballots cast on the day (47.5 per cent) points the finger at Scott Morrison, too. 

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What did I say in my last night's post above? Bolt would choke before saying he was wrong. The "shock" of a near win has been left behind forgotten replaced by " the AEC has updated the count, by my point remains.". Bolt has placed himself as the leader on the media podium above all other commentators.
He ignores the fact that he was wrong. He not only ignores the fact that the defeat was a historic 19% but he ignores the fact that if it had been the "election" not the Liberals would have been gone but all the Conservatives would have been gone.
The postal vote only tells us that those voting from overseas simply don't have a clue as what is happening on the ground here in Australia. It tells us how this country's events media wise go simply  unreported. We are a backwater even in Murdoch's Anglosphere and that Andrew Bolt is a media star only in his own lunch time and hasn't an audience. The sacking of Turnbull has actually saved the Menzie's Party.


 

SAUDIS ADMIT TO EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH

Saudi Arabia first said Jamal Khashoggi walked out of its Istanbul consulate. Then it said he had died in the consulate in "quarrels and an altercation". Now its Foreign Minister says Khashoggi was killed in the consulate in   a "criminal" act by individuals in a "rogue operation ... outside the scope of their authority".  Lies, lies and lies.

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In all of this Bolt fails to even mention why the POTUS Donald Trump has declared the Saudi explanations as reasonable that the arms deal struck with the Saudis by the Obama Presidency will remain in place and  how it came to be that Donald Trump, Israel and Putin enabled, set the framework for this gruesome event to take place and lie about it. How is it Bolt always edits the full story and deflects it from the reality of why did the Saudis only now feel so entitled?

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