ALL bets are off regarding the future of the Coalition should the Liberal Party change leaders on Tuesday, member for Riverina Michael McCormack has declared.
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"People get thoroughly sick of this ... we are in a joint partnership and the joint partner is not playing ball," he said.
Reacting to news that two Western Australia-based backbenchers have brought on a spill motion for the Liberals' senior leadership positions, Mr McCormack said he was "very annoyed" and had some choice words for the dissenting element in the party.
"Some of the Liberals doing it, you wouldn't want to be beside them in the trenches," he said.
"There are some who have jumped ship very quickly."
Due to the looming spill, Mr McCormack will now fly to Turkey on Saturday night to represent the government at the G20 Finance Ministers Meeting with Treasurer Joe Hockey, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann required in Canberra for the vote on Tuesday.
Asked if he could foresee a course of action that would see the Coalition dissolve should Tony Abbott not be Prime Minister after Tuesday, Mr McCormack declined to provide an answer either way.
Mr McCormack acknowledged the polling for the government had been poor but blamed the media for turning the leadership speculation into a "raging inferno".
"The polling isn't great but there's only one poll I've been interested in," he said.
"That's the ballot box poll - the ballot box said they wanted to step away from a chaotic and dysfunctional (Labor) government."
However, Mr McCormack conceded that at the current point in time, the Liberal Party may not look much better than the previous Labor government, which changed prime ministers twice in three years.
