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Liberal Party powerbrokers are today grappling with the unimaginable. It’s the prospect of seeing a district of some of Australia’s richest people deciding to vote in a Labor candidate.
This comes as Malcolm Turnbull announced his plans to vacate his seat as the Member for Wenworth in affluent eastern suburbs.
Mr Turnbull has held the seat since 2004 and won it with a 17.7 per cent margin at the last election.
He has announced plans to resign from the Parliament on Friday, after being dumped from the nation’s top job in a Liberal leadership spill last week.
According to the ABC’s election analyst Antony Green, Mr Turnbull’s vote had gone up more than most other Liberal electorates in Sydney since his election, thanks to his popularity and high profile.
However, the Libs are now at a fork in the road. Who do they run?
While there has been close to a hundred rich white people throw their hands up for the pre-selection, the party has struggled to find anyone without a full blown cocaine problem.
“This has proven much tougher than we thought” said one Liberal Party organiser, Corey Prett-Tagscutts.
“Literally no one has been able to past a simple swab. They’re all up to their noses in the Bondi Marching Powder. Malcolm was the last bloke from this area who was able to keep off the shit”
While it is not yet known if Labor will bother running a half-decent candidate in the electorate, there is growing concern that anyone as vaguely well-spoken as Malcolm Turnbull who acknowledges Climate Change could steal this seat in a minute, regardless of their party.
