Peta Credlin Burnt Turnbull On The Bolt Report Again, Because That’s Her Whole Thing Now I Guess
The smugness is overpowering.
Peta Credlin has been called a lot of things over the years, but ‘gracious in defeat’ isn’t necessarily one of them. Tony Abbott’s former Chief of Staff, Credlin has seemingly had a bit of an axe to grind ever since Malcolm Turnbull knifed her old boss in the back.
Of course things haven’t exactly gone smoothly for Tony’s replacement since last September’s coup, something that Credlin has been happy to remind people about at every possible opportunity.
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Her most recent chance came on tonight’s episode of The Bolt Report, where to mark the upcoming anniversary of Abbott’s unceremonious dumping, Bolt asked Credlin if she could name “one thing of importance Malcolm Turnbull has achieved in a whole year.”
Her response, after a pointed silence: “by the skin of his teeth, he didn’t lose to Bill Shorten.”
Peta Credlin struggles to name one thing @TurnbullMalcolm has done since the coup nearly one year ago #theboltreporthttps://t.co/nUTdGnA4OO
— The Bolt Report (@theboltreport) September 5, 2016
As no huge fan of the current administration myself, I find this whole thing deeply conflicting. On the one hand, I don’t know that I can think of much Turnbull’s done that I like, either. On the other, the combined smugness on display in this 52-second clip is enough to power a medium-sized country.
Credlin did manage to find her voice long enough to talk about the recent fiasco in the House of Representatives that saw Labor wrestle the balance of power out of the Coalition’s hands. “They’ve lost all the momentum they had,” said Credlin of the government. “It has been a case if one step forward and two steps back.”
Credlin also penned an article for The Daily Telegraph over the weekend, in which she likewise slammed a government with “no strategy, little anticipation, poor co-ordination, a lack of tactics and seemingly no one in charge.”
Good to see she’s got more than one string to her bow.