>”Sussan Ley was handed a club shit sandwich when she inherited the leadership after the Liberal Party was shirtfronted by the electorate in two consecutive elections,” Barry says.
>”The magnitude of the losses we’ve recently seen at state and federal levels point to a more complex explanation that means moving beyond the timeless Liberal pastime of searching for a scapegoat and a messiah.
>”Having terrorist cells operating inside the Coalition is not a pathway to electoral success.”
>And he warns that if the party room does “neck” Ley, “you can be certain that Labor figures like Penny Wong, Tanya Plibersek and Clare O’Neil will all be elbowing each other to get to a microphone and reinforce an existing prejudice among soft voters that the Liberal Party has a women problem.”
>”If the party room were to roll Sussan Ley so soon after the election it would be an act of total madness and stupidity, which is why we can’t rule it out,” Barry tells me.
>”The Liberal Party had to work really hard to lose 34 seats in three years. It is going to have to work a lot harder to win them back within the next two electoral cycles.”
The ABC needs to get quotes from this guy more often. For those of us who are Labor voters but who are nevertheless unhappy with the performance of the current Federal government, the lack of any viable opposition is doing real damage to Australia. Dutton’s completely inept strategy & campaigning has let Labor get away with loads of things that they should have been held to account on.
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The coalition hates women, that being said it hates itself more, but it also hates women.
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From former Liberal Party strategist Tony Barry:
>”Sussan Ley was handed a club shit sandwich when she inherited the leadership after the Liberal Party was shirtfronted by the electorate in two consecutive elections,” Barry says.
>”The magnitude of the losses we’ve recently seen at state and federal levels point to a more complex explanation that means moving beyond the timeless Liberal pastime of searching for a scapegoat and a messiah.
>”Having terrorist cells operating inside the Coalition is not a pathway to electoral success.”
>And he warns that if the party room does “neck” Ley, “you can be certain that Labor figures like Penny Wong, Tanya Plibersek and Clare O’Neil will all be elbowing each other to get to a microphone and reinforce an existing prejudice among soft voters that the Liberal Party has a women problem.”
>”If the party room were to roll Sussan Ley so soon after the election it would be an act of total madness and stupidity, which is why we can’t rule it out,” Barry tells me.
>”The Liberal Party had to work really hard to lose 34 seats in three years. It is going to have to work a lot harder to win them back within the next two electoral cycles.”
The ABC needs to get quotes from this guy more often. For those of us who are Labor voters but who are nevertheless unhappy with the performance of the current Federal government, the lack of any viable opposition is doing real damage to Australia. Dutton’s completely inept strategy & campaigning has let Labor get away with loads of things that they should have been held to account on.
The coalition hates women, that being said it hates itself more, but it also hates women.