Just stick a fork in the collective arse of the Victorian Liberals: they’re cooked. Yet again, the ‘moderates’ of the party are determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. If the ‘moderates’ were moles planted by the Teals, they couldn’t do more damage.
Meanwhile, in the premier’s office Jacinta Allan can no doubt scarcely believe her luck. Just when the Libs were passing Labor in the polls, and Brad Battin was easily beating Allan in the preferred Premier polls… along come the ‘moderates’. Again.
Brad Battin has lost the Victorian Liberal leadership and early losing a spill motion in the Melbourne partyroom, paving the way for Jess Wilson to become leader.
She duly did and Labor started popping the champagne corks.
The new Victorian Liberal leader said her main priorities were to bring the budget under control, end the crime crisis, increase access to healthcare, and make home ownership more accessible for all Victorians.
“I will work every day for Victorians to make sure at the next election they have a clear and credible alternative to vote for that gives them hope for the future of Victoria,” she said.
She’s not fooling anybody. Wilson is yet another one of the limp, wet, lettuce-leaf ‘moderate’ whose baleful influence has destroyed the Liberal party’s electability and state and federal level, and given the worst Labor governments a free run to wreak havoc. Wilson was the only Victorian Liberal to support the ‘Voice’ referendum. Worse, for Victorian voters hoping to overturn the state’s ludicrous ‘treaty’, Wilson is a vocal supporter.
Everywhere they rule the roost, the ‘moderates’ are poison to the Liberals’ election chances. Having handed Canberra and Melbourne to Labor on a silver platter, they’re now doing the same in Sydney.
The NSW Liberals are set to hold on to net zero by 2050, in a move placing them out of step with their federal counterparts and NSW Nationals counterparts.
It’s understood the decision to retain the net zero target was made in today’s meeting of the NSW Liberal partyroom.
The NSW Nationals have endorsed their federal counterpart’s position on dumping Net Zero, while the federal Liberals have also axed the 2050 target.
It could be a matter of days, though, before NSW leader Mark Speakman also faces a leadership challenge. Speakman is yet another wet, who publicly supported the ‘Voice’, and wants gender quotas for the Liberal party room. So, good riddance?
They can always do worse.
Vaucluse (eastern Sydney) MP Kellie Sloane, a moderate, has been sounded out repeatedly for the leadership, while factionless Wahroonga MP Alister Henskens is also a contender.
Mind you, Henskens voted for the anti-protest laws that were later used to jail his own climate activist niece. Which is pretty based, if nothing else.
Down south, here in Tasmania, with the only Liberal branch to actually win multiple elections in the last five years, federal Libs are warning the rest to pull their heads and get their acts together.
Jonathan Duniam has called on his state Liberal counterparts to “get on with it” after speculation over leadership spills in both Victoria and NSW, but downplayed threats to Sussan Ley’s leadership.
The newly minted shadow home affairs minister and senator from Tasmania, now overseeing the development of the coalition’s migration policy, revved up his state counterparts calling for the Victorian opposition to topple “the ridiculous Allan government”.
“Do what you have to do, and get on with it … a government is only as good as its opposition and that government absolutely needs to be taken down,” he said.
“They are the worst government in the country and I hope the Libs there get their act together.”
The worst government: with the even-worse opposition conspiring to keep them in government.
