CANBERRA: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is reportedly seeking to trigger a double dissolution election in coming months on the back of the shock news that his popularity is “slipping far behind” in the outer suburbs of our major cities.

In what government insiders describe as the PM’s “despair mixed with panic”, Albanese is understandably responding to a SkyLNPNews online post (above) in which Michael Kroger made some very stinging comments and election predictions while in conversation with SkyLNPNews host Sharri Markson and some old bloke called Graham Richardson (below).

Markson asked Kroger, a former president of the Victorian Liberal Party: “Michael, do you think that Labor is slipping so far behind that they might not even get to minority government?”

Kroger responded that Albanese seemed “too woke” and “too inner-city” and that the Prime Minister is “losing a lot of support in the suburbs”.

“He needs to reset his government,” Mr Kroger told the SkyLNPNews host.

“The Voice basically killed this government. It’s been a slow leakage of support ever since.”

Kroger suggested that Labor could lose 11 or 12 or 13 seats, giving Opposition Leader Peter Dutton the chance to form his own minority government.

The Bug‘s usually reliable source within the PM’s office told us: “The Prime Minister is acutely aware of not just the enormous reach of SkyLNPNews programs but the respect the views of its many hosts have in the electorate.

“As Markson said, Kroger and Richardson ‘are the two most experienced political operators in this country’ so Kroger’s comments have to be taken very, very seriously. So the PM is aware he’ll need to go to the polls as quickly as possible but what can he use as a double dissolution trigger?

“His government has outcunted the Opposition with his new harsh laws jailing refugees who came here by boat rather than plane and who won’t go home but he knows the LNP will cave soon and support that.

“He needs some other issue that can be rejected by the Senate ASAP so he can reintroduce it in three months time and speed out to Yarralumla while he’s still got a remote chance of securing a second term.”

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