The appalling Liberal Party performance in the five Super Saturday by-elections confirms what has long been obvious.

This is that if Malcolm Turnbull remains leader, the next election will result in a Bill Shorten Labor government, with a far-left agenda.

Once again, Turnbull has demonstrated that he is a self-indulgent, ineffective campaigner and that to the electorate, his LINO (Liberal In Name Only) agenda seems little different from Labor’s, and that they might as well try them.