Abbott's Mad Monk Monkey Pod meetings - let them eat cake!

Team Abbott in exile/"The Resistance", has been plotting against Turnbull via of late regular meetings for lunch amongst like minded Team Abbottours. The meetings are being held in (wait for it) the "Monkey Pod" meeting room in Canberra. How deliciously ironic given that Abbott is well known online as the "Mad Monk" :)

These efforts to unstabilise Turnbull's stratospheric polling have included the recent conga line of conservatives saying Turnbull is weak on TERROR!© and that we must send troops to Syria to stop the death cult! Strangely, the people that have been saying that in the media are exactly the same people attending the Mad Monk's Monkey Pod meetings.

Of course you can't arrange an insurrection by national security alone. So whilst the "send in the troops" line fizzled miserably (including in the Lieberal party itself I suspect) they employed another parallel strategy; a cake lunch.

At the same time Mr Abbott, Mr Dutton, Mr Nikolic and Mr Sukkar all attended the latest lunch on Tuesday, with the former prime minister bringing cake for his colleagues.

The quartet of conservatives were joined by fellow conservative MPs, senators and Abbott supporters Angus Taylor, Zed Seselja, Natasha Griggs, Craig Kelly and Ian Goodenough for the take-away meal. Sydney Morning Herald

None the less this double destabilisation strategy did nothing more than raise a collective WTF? from the rest of the Canberra Lieberal party. The overall consensus when the press gallery interviewed a number of them?

The overwhelming view of those MPs is that, as one minister put it, Mr Abbott's supporters were "hanging on to the last vestiges of the Abbott days, when conservatives thought they could do or say whatever they liked". 

"Government is actually functioning well again after the last two years, we are actually focusing on things that matter. Some of their comments on national security show an enormous naivety. We aren't concerned by these clowns." Sydney Morning Herald

Let the clowns eat cake! Hah!