Parkinson’s symptoms

parkinsonPrime Ministers come and go, but Martin Parkinson labours ever on.

Friend of Quadrant and regular contributor James Allan draws readers’ attention to a post at Catallaxy Files, where the topic is Martin Parkinson:

…That Morrison has seemingly learned nothing from this experience by retaining Parkinson as Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet spells disaster with ongoing dysfunction in government and an electoral flogging of epic proportions looming cometh the election.

The electoral wipeout of the Coalition in 2016, and the ongoing polling woes to this day stem from two hopelessly flawed budgets that bookended the Coalition’s first term in office.

Both were significantly influenced by the advice of Parkinson as Treasury Secretary and later Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Both were economic and political failures of epic proportions. Both sold out the Coalition base. Both failed on economic management. Both were shambles in the preparation and implementation.

The final straw (to which Morrison owes becoming Prime Minister) was the utter shambles of energy and climate change policy that resulted in the sham National Energy Guarantee. To think that Parkinson (Former Secretary of the Department of Climate Change) didn’t have his green fingers all over Turnbull and Frydenberg’s “signature” policy is implausible.

For these reasons Martin Parkinson must be considered the Coalition’s greatest blunder, one that Morrison seems destined to repeat, and one of Labor’s best weapons. Morrison has gifted Labor a progressive Left insurgent that will tear his government apart from the inside and destroy any chance of re-election.

The post can be read in full via this link or the one below.

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