Re: Liberal Leadership Challenge
Reply #26 –
....after I get mine!
One of the things that some folk harp on both in this situation is that it's "for the people to select a PM not the party."
We vote for a representative who in most cases is part of a party.
We entrust them with the responsibility to make decisions on our behalf.
Included in those decisions is the 'party housekeeping' things like leadership.
While a leader can influence some peoples views it's more the policy that determines where our votes go.
Labor had every right to choose who led them during their time...the Libs had the same right to make the change they did last night.
Abbott, ever the politician, made an issue of it because it was a tactic designed to cement his position.
The shock-jocks will run with it today.
Price, Jones, Bolt... their heads just might explode! Deeply conservative, these d1ckheads now have to contend with 'their' party in power but with a leader who openly criticises them as clowns/insignificant. Notice that Janet Albrechtsen has quickly switched camps and gotten behind Turnbull... ah, what a day. There is a god and he/she/it/they aint your friend, Tone.