Meet your new deputy PM, courtesy of The Daily Telegraph
It’s hard to keep up with who’s in charge in the post-Howard era, something Dr Mumbo and The Daily Telegraph know all too well.
This week alone we’ve had Malcom Turnbull (Prime Minister), Peter Dutton (almost Prime Minister), Julie Bishop (wannabe Prime Minister) and ScoMo (new Prime Minister).
But what of the deputy PM?
It used to be Barnaby Joyce, Dr Mumbo recalls.
Now, however, The Tele says it is Josh Frydenberg.
Not quite.
Frydenberg may be deputy leader of the Liberal Party (for now), but he is not deputy Prime Minister.
That remains the title on the business card of Michael McCormack, leader of the National Party – the ‘NP’ in the ‘LNP Coalition’.
Still, Dr Mumbo can’t wait to meet Frydenberg, as promised by the folks at The Tele.
Good pick up Dr Mumbo, but let’s also correct another inaccuracy: the LNP is the Liberal National Party of Queensland, which came about when the Libs and Nats in QLD decided to merge. That happened in QLD only. At a Federal level, I believe the correct phrase is Liberal- National Coalition, or Coalition for short.
Clear as mud.
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The Tele has a wonderful reputation for getting things right … NOT!
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The post-spill Newspoll came out today.
29 more to go and bye-bye Sco-Mo.
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Just as amusing (and pathetic) is News Corp (Tele and Australian, SkyNews) plus 2GB’s “what me?” response to widespread comments that they deliberately, editorially fomented the leadership crisis.
It’s laughable to anyone who has read, listened or watched any of them attacking Turnbull while lauding Abbott and/or Dutton that they are now putting on such a display of outrage to such comments.
For goodness sake fellas (+Peta), we read/heard you! Don’y tell us now that you never spoke. Why not just agree that you had an editorial agenda?
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And Julie (keeping her powder dry) Bishops beats Shorten to the PM spot in an election next year…
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