Matthew Guy must decide whether to remain as Liberal leader after second consecutive Coalition defeat‘Hope always defeats hate’: Labor claims 2022 Victoria state electionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastInteresting conversation from the Insiders panel this morning with comments from Nikki Savva that the mood within the Coalition has turned sharply against Scott Morrison. She says there is a belief inside the party that they were loyal to Morrison, but he took it for granted.They are furious with him and I think the general view is that he showed contempt for them, for the people who were closest to him, who followed him religiously in many ways, and were loyal to the fold, and he treated them with contempt.He treated Cabinet with contempt and he treated Parliament and parliamentary processes with contempt, for whatever reason. None of the reasons that he has given stack up, except, it sounds like he was deluded.Serious point - the Labor Party thus far is winning the realignment war. They did federally. They did at the state level. Both of those results could have resulted in minority governments. It didn’t in either contest.We see Peter Dutton doing some weird Tony Abbott re-boot, despite seeing a Federal result and now a state result that suggests that that is quite dangerous as a political strategy. I think the Liberal Party is in danger at this point of becoming a regional party. We are in danger of a reverse Coalition, where the National Party is the dominant player in the Coalition. Continue reading...
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