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1binders
sep 14, 2015, 10:13 pm

I'm actually shocked and disappointed, despite not being a liberal supporter.
Can anyone explain what they were thinking?

2Lman
sep 15, 2015, 12:30 am

>1 binders:
Can anyone explain what they were thinking?
Err... That Tony was not an acceptable prime minister and that they would not win the next election with him as said leader?

I mean ... that's all it's about in politics these days ... holding onto power.
True leadership is sadly lacking, IMHO, anywhere much in this country.

3dajashby
sep 15, 2015, 1:18 am

#1
If you read any of the major daily newspapers, not to mention The Guardian or Crikey, you will find enough assorted explanations to keep you occupied for the rest of the week.

Do you want links to a sample?

4binders
sep 15, 2015, 4:58 am

The consensus seems to be about the tactical thinking behind it - timing, numbers and so on.
But not much on the apparent contradiction between yesterday's regime change, and the Lib's and the media's almost universal agreement that it was switching leaders that cost Labor government.
If (almost) everyone agrees that that scuttled them, then what makes them think this will go down any better?

5dajashby
sep 15, 2015, 8:11 pm

I think you're begging the question about universal agreement but anyway, here you go. Don't thank me, thank The Monthly:

https://www.themonthly.com.au/today/sean-kelly/2015/15/2015/1442301376/strange-t...

I'm sure you'll get over the shock. Just lie back and think of Australia ;-D

6Seanie
Bewerkt: sep 16, 2015, 12:53 am

Tony was an embarrassment as PM, IMO there was NO CHANCE liberal could win the next election with him as leader, so they had to get rid of him to give themselves a chance. I just hope the voting public remember that even with the embarrassingly idiotic puppet gone, the same puppet masters are still pulling the strings...

It has made for some funny Facebook fodder tho!
Leadership spills are a lot like Time Lord regenerations.
The face changes, but it's actually still the same guy underneath.

7gimboid13
sep 16, 2015, 4:13 am

4> If (almost) everyone agrees that that scuttled them, then what makes them think this will go down any better?

I think the difference is that once the Murdoch press is used to the shock of losing their hero they'll resume the task of convincing the ordinary punter that voting Liberal is in their interests.

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