Abbott "overthrown in next 9 days" - Bob Ellis

I dunno how right or wrong he may be, but I'm starting to think something's afoot in Canberra reading it. Bob Ellis has declared that Abbott will be gone in nine days. What's more, he reckons smokin sloppy Joe will go soon after. It's becoming clear that there is trouble in the Lieberal ranks.

It’s likely Abbott will be overthrown in the next nine days and his successor Dutton, Hunt or Turnbull will rapidly and brutally excise Hockey from the Treasury; not certain, but likely. 

Why do I say this? Well, in Question Time today he, Tony, was very strange indeed, his face calm but his voice arching upwards huskily into polecat soprano as he asserted repeatedly that ‘not one dollar’ had been cut from Health and Education, though Plibersek waved a government document saying eighty billion dollars had been, and his backbenchers’ faces behind him, and the Ministers’ faces beside him, were melancholy-dire. He seemed mad, and it was clear they’d given up on him, the worst policy-salesman in their history (he had lost, in seven months as PM, 1.3 million votes), and were making frantic plans in hugger-mugger to be rid of him. more