Barnaby Joyce likely to give Cabinet a kick-along

[icyfroth]

While the past couple of months have been described in the media as messy for the new Turnbull Government, the political stability the nation craves should come now that he has a settled fresh team in the Nationals with Barnaby Joyce at the helm, as well as having had the opportunity to promote worthy younger MPs to his frontbench to replace three ministers who have blotted their copybooks.

All political observers and commentators expect Turnbull now to switch to poll mode and to work toward securing an all-important second term for the Coalition Government.

Mr Turnbull has been able to promote talented younger MPs such as Victorians Dan Tehan, Alan Tudge and Scott Ryan, and Angus Taylor from New South Wales.

In the Nationals Fiona Nash, now the party’s deputy leader, and Darren Chester have been elevated to Cabinet.

Turnbull also has a new Deputy PM following the departure of the solid but low-key Warren Truss.

Labor is relishing the opportunity of having Barnaby Joyce as the Deputy PM, expecting his colourful and unpredictable style to be a rich source of “gotcha” moments.

If Labor can drive a wedge between the progressive, urbane and free market boosting Turnbull and the socially conservative, interventionist and bucolic Joyce, they expect to have a field day in portraying the government as a divided, and confused operation.

Portraying Joyce as a buffoon will be a standard tactic.

But it could also work the other way.  Having such different personalities and world-views in leadership positions in the Liberal and Nationals Coalition covers a large swathe of the spectrum of political opinion in Australia.

As Christopher Pyne put it, Turnbull-Joyce have the potential to make a formidable electoral team. “Malcolm and Barnaby are a great team because they’re the yin and yang in politics,” he told Channel Nine.

“They represent all sides of the political spectrum … except of course socialism.”

http://newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=57205

"Portraying Joyce as a buffoon will be a standard tactic."

As they did with Tony Abbott.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Socialism's only for poor countries like Norway,Mr Fixit,and if what we've seen thus far from Malcolm is progressive, then Micky Dolenz is my nephew.

[tezza2844]

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@icyfroth wrote:

"Portraying Joyce as a buffoon will be a standard tactic."

As they did with Tony Abbott.

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Wow, people can actually get things right.

[icyfroth]

How the media portray it, some unthinking ppl think it's right.

[tezza2844]

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@icyfroth wrote:

How the media portray it, some unthinking ppl think it's right.

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It's how Uncle Rupbert portrays is as well as "some unthinking ppl"

[esayaf]

Luckily actions speak louder than words. How people interpret those actions may be different.
Luckily for me I find all politicians to be buffoons.

[icyfroth]

I probably got that wrong. Most ppl are thinking.

Just that certain media like to direct ppls thoughts in one direction or another.

[esayaf]

Really? Then how come so many say that it isn't polite to talk politics or that other strange mob that don't even vote.
Yet prattle on for hours about sport. I understand that sports knowledge does require brain cells but is it thinking. I believe thinking requires more than just remembering a series of names, numbers and dates.
It's being able to absorb what is happening around you and being able to comprehend and formulate opinions.
So one is able to adapt and live in a dynamic society.
To understand change.

[tezza2844]

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@icyfroth wrote:

I probably got that wrong. Most ppl are thinking.

Just that certain media like to direct ppls thoughts in one direction or another.

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I'll have to agree with you on that one

[icyfroth]

Mr Abbott still has  a lot of support.