Re: Where's the judicial inquiry?
Where is the judicial inquiry? Malcolm Turnbull called for it. Devoid of propaganda surely it would root out who is telling the truth.
The trolley boy is pushing another empty thought into a parked ute.
Devoid of substance he echoes his leader's now forlorn pleas for some justice: A judicial inquiry no less.
But into what?
Turnbull reeled off a list of issues as long as his windedness would allow. He was on a pure and simple fishing fishing trip. Baited with empty words and a burley attitude he cast his desires into the House time and again and managed only to foul his line before badly hooking himself.
Meanwhile Labor, in the Senate, realising Turnbull was bleeding, called for an inquiry into the mischievous hook.
What happened?
Well, you might think that Turnbull's aides might have wanted to get to the truth. But they knew the hook had been poisoned, and any injury would lead to subsequent complications. Whose hook was it? Who knew that it could land the tosser more heavily than the tossed?
They are all good questions.
But the Senate sided against an inquiry.
In that context, a move for a judicial inquiry looks superfluous, if not just plain silly.
But none of the above would cut to the truth of utegate.
That truth lies in the motivation of the perpetrator of the original email
and the exceptionally well calculated estimation of Turnbull's character.
There are many ways to look more deeply at this point, but brevity is of the essence.
If we use "motive" as the driving force for utegate, then Labor will not have had a hand in the email. Hockey will be Turnbull's successor and Rudd fears him more than Turnbull.
If the Opposition was truly interested in finding the "source", they would have done so by now. My suspicion is they know, and they are not telling. Their objective is to win the next election. And as smooth and sartorial as Turnbull may be, he doesn't cut the numbers where they count. The Libs know an election with Turnbull as leader is, at best, a 49:51 bet, with Labor returned.
Presently the key reason that Opposition is failing is their inability to fight to their strength - economic management. With Costello out of the picture there is nobody capable of plucking the ugly duckling who has been allowed to turn into a Swan. And even if there was, Labor would replace him with Tanner.
Opposition strategists know that Hockey is what they need. Some very clever people within have toasted Turnbull's reign with a poison chalice. And true to form, he didn't sip, he swallowed - hook line and sinker.