GOODBYE SCOTT AND JOSH AND OUR FUTURE

THE Federal Government is about to lose the Wentworth byelection and its parliamentary majority. In a worst case outcome it could be forced to an election before Christmas or early – too early – in the New Year.

The “best case” outcome is that Prime Minister Scott Morrison and treasurer Josh Frydenberg are going to lose control of both the political and the policy agendas.

But “best case” or “worst”, they will be sliding to inevitable – and, only just slightly less certain, crushing – defeat.

Again, in this worst case outcome, Frydenberg wouldn’t get to bring down even one Budget – repeating the experience in (almost) similar circumstances of Labor’s Chris Bowen in 2013.

Although, in irony of ironies, it would be Bowen who would be bringing down that 2019 Budget; and even more, would actually be unveiling the return to surplus that Frydenberg is “cleverly” keeping under wraps.

Whether or not a Treasurer Bowen would actually get to deliver a Budget surplus is an with the departure of the “incompetent-in-chief” to New York, that hope had been quickly laid to rest before this week.

And then we got the “efforts” of the government this week – just what you’d “call for” in the last week of an election campaign; that’s if, your name was Bill Shorten.

No, it does not demonstrate that it was a mistake to get rid of Malcolm Turnbull, but the exact opposite. Turnbull should have been dumped at least a year ago.

He should also have been replaced by someone – the one – who could project a very clear policy differentiation from the utterly disastrous mix we are now going to get from a Shorten-led Labor-Green government.

It’s going to make the Labor-Green government of Julia Gillard look like an exercise in stunning rationality in comparison.

A few thousand pampered virtue-signalling inner city harbourside residents on Saturday are going to condemn their fellow 25 million Australians to a very, and literally, dark future.