The Napthine government - On the way out?

[SirRumpole]

Are the first cracks in the Coalition wall starting to appear ?

Labor has a 59%-41% lead over the Liberals in Victoria.

That will be hard to recover from.

Labor has extended a crushing lead over the Napthine government as fallout from the federal budget, ongoing chaos in the Parliament and internal Liberal Party ructions continue to erode the Coalition’s re-election hopes.

Five months from the November 29 state election, an Age/Nielsen poll reveals the state government failed to gain political traction from the May budget, despite a $27 billion major projects agenda.

The poll of 1000 Victorians reveals the Coalition is now deeply mired, trailing Labor 41 per cent to 59 per cent in two-party preferred terms based on voters' intended preference allocations.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/l...-to-41-in-agenielsen-poll-20140625-zslo3.html

 

[Knobby22]

Yes, it's upsetting. We finally get a good government and the Feds manage to make the name Liberal a major hindrance.

 

[drsmith]

Yes, it's upsetting. We finally get a good government and the Feds manage to make the name Liberal a major hindrance.

Is that a serious statement about the current Victorian government ?

It's not something I follow but the optics I see from a distance don't look good.

Perhaps you could enlighten further.

 

[Knobby22]

There is an issues with a dishonest Liberal MP from Frankston who had to go independent and is causing the Government trouble (and will probably side with Labor to win a vote of no confidence), but from my view, they have made big savings, have an excellent infrastructure agenda and look the goods.

 

[drsmith]

There is an issues with a dishonest Liberal MP from Frankston who had to go independent and is causing the Government trouble (and will probably side with Labor to win a vote of no confidence), but from my view, they have made big savings, have an excellent infrastructure agenda and look the goods.

Then the best thing they can do is market themselves and their achievements which is something that historically, the Libs have not been able to do as well as Labor.

As for the Feds, the world will not end on July 1 and soon after that the carbon tax will be gone. All other things being equal, I'd suggest the Libs will come back to around 2PP parity with Labor during the second half of the year.

Betting odds still have the Coalition winning the next federal election.

http://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting...deral-politics/outrights?ev_oc_grp_id=1192309