Next Liberal leader - 2025

[Gough]

Can anyone imagine either of these 2 being a future PM?

May Lucifer help us all...

When the Welcome to Country was booed Taylor and Price where among those who agreed that those Nazis might be onto something.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Lib's have to be very careful. They run the risk of the WA liberals. They get smashed, then pick someone entirely unlikeable, who can't win back any seats and they get smashed further.

They need to pick someone likeable, even if they aren't ideologically "pure" otherwise they have Angus Taylor and Price leading them to a half dozen seats at the next election and oblivion.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Almost every decision the Liberal Party takes from here needs to be seen through a twenty five year old's eyes. It's all very well for someone my age demand that they move further right but that's not going to impress younger people who aren't voting for them because they offer nothing for them.

You mean catering for the constituency who are dying out while getting the growing constituency offside isn't a winning policy?

 

[Gough]

Lib's have to be very careful. They run the risk of the WA liberals. They get smashed, then pick someone entirely unlikeable, who can't win back any seats and they get smashed further.

They need to pick someone likeable, even if they aren't ideologically "pure" otherwise they have Angus Taylor and Price leading them to a half dozen seats at the next election and oblivion.

All the voices pushing Price as a leader are the same ones that desperately tried to sell Peter Dutton as PM material when in reality you have two dull, incurious and fairly unintelligent people who are well out of their depth.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

All the voices pushing Price as a leader are the same ones that desperately tried to sell Peter Dutton as PM material when in reality you have two dull, incurious and fairly unintelligent people who are well out of their depth.

Yeah it's the faceless men, that the libs like to accuse Labour of being beholden to. They want someone they can control.

It's no secret i don't like the liberals, but having a viable, healthy opposition is important in a democracy. They really run the risk of becoming a rump party if they continue down the path they are setting.

 

[jim boy]

It's no secret i don't like the liberals, but having a viable, healthy opposition is important in a democracy. They really run the risk of becoming a rump party if they continue down the path they are setting.

Need the second-coming of Don Chipp to fill that space that the Libs have vacated.

 

[Vindicater]

Jesus...

Tim Wilson is about to put his hand up...

 

[nobbyiscool]

Jesus...

Tim Wilson is about to put his hand up...

Meh, why not?

A moderate, openly gay party leader might be the final kibosh on the Libs and Sky/Murdoch just proper setting fire to each other.

 

[schneebly111]

Meh, why not?

A moderate, openly gay party leader might be the final kibosh on the Libs and Sky/Murdoch just proper setting fire to each other.

An IPA shill is not a "moderate". Heck I read today that Jane "Chinese Australians are CCP spies!" Hume is considered a "moderate"

The only real moderate I can think of in recent Lib memory was Bridget Archer, the rest are conservative reactionaries.

 

[Gough]

Meh, why not?

A moderate, openly gay party leader might be the final kibosh on the Libs and Sky/Murdoch just proper setting fire to each other.

I'm with Andrew Scott, we never hear about openly heterosexual accountants.

Andrew Scott is right – it’s time to retire the phrase ‘openly gay’ | Ryan Gilbey

The actor’s suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots

www.theguardian.com

 

[Crankyhawk]

I'm with Andrew Scott, we never hear about openly heterosexual accountants.

Andrew Scott is right – it’s time to retire the phrase ‘openly gay’ | Ryan Gilbey

The actor’s suggestion in a roundtable interview is more common sense than provocation, the phrase speaking to a homophobic media that no longer calls the shots

www.theguardian.com

Though perhaps still relevant for LNP politicians (as a sign of relative diversity)

 

[QuietB]

An IPA shill is not a "moderate". Heck I read today that Jane "Chinese Australians are CCP spies!" Hume is considered a "moderate"

The only real moderate I can think of in recent Lib memory was Bridget Archer, the rest are conservative reactionaries.

I think they mean a moderate using Matt Canavan or Jacinta Price as their baseline.

 

[schneebly111]

Littleproud has fended off Coal Boy Canavan's takeover bid so tepid net zero support stays for now

 

[Gavin Excell]

Littleproud has fended off Coal Boy Canavan's takeover bid so tepid net zero support stays for now

Solid and appropriate use of the word "tepid"

 

[Gavin Excell]

I can see Ley getting the vote and then white anted from day 1

 

[schneebly111]

I can see Ley getting the vote and then white anted from day 1

7 News for a hold of an internal count of pledged voters showing Angus has a small lead over Ley so likely to win, no idea about deputy but if they pick Price say hello to 3 years of laughter

I mean I can already see the Betoota headline tomorrow:

“In order to reconnect with young, female, urban multicultural voters Liberal party selects a near 60 year old white rural male as leader and in order to move back to the political centre they select a MAGA hat wearing extremist who wants to ban abortion”.

 

[Gough]

I can see Ley getting the vote and then white anted from day 1

We sent Temu Trump packing so obviously Temu Thatcher is the next option for the Liberal Party.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

I wonder if Ted O’Brien can do a Steven Bradbury.

 

[Gavin Excell]

I wonder if Ted O’Brien can do a Steven Bradbury.

Aka as a Scomo

 

[Gough]

I wonder if having Price on his ticket will be seen as a net negative for Taylor in the end where outside of the Gina faction in the party she's viewed as disloyal and untrustworthy.

 

[Bont2Bruce]

I wonder if having Price on his ticket will be seen as a net negative for Taylor in the end where outside of the Gina faction in the party she's viewed as disloyal and untrustworthy.

I read somewhere that her choice to sit with the Liberals rather than the Nationals could deny the Nationals a funded party whip because the Nationals lost a senator and would be down to 4 and the party whip funding kicks in at a minimum of 5 senators.

The Nats bean counter wouldn't be happy with that, if that's how it works.

 

[spinynorman]

I can see Ley getting the vote and then white anted from day 1

Yeah, I imagine if the Hard Right don't get their way now they'll undermine Ley until they do.

Also, Wilson is in the Moderate faction of the Liberals, so when they're talking about a moderate option, I imagine that's with a capital M. I think it's fair to say some in the Hard Right would be outraged at the prospect of a gay man leading them (as opposed to the normal response of taking issue issue with such an enormous prick leading them).

 

[Gavin Excell]

Yeah, I imagine if the Hard Right don't get their way now they'll undermine Ley until they do.

Also, Wilson is in the Moderate faction of the Liberals, so when they're talking about a moderate option, I imagine that's with a capital M. I think it's fair to say some in the Hard Right would be outraged at the prospect of a gay man leading them (as opposed to the normal response of taking issue issue with such an enormous prick leading them).

A gay man leader and an indigenous deputy leader

The party of diversity

 

[Tadpole]

Sussssssssan Ley has been elected leader of the dead man walking party.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Sussssssssan Ley has been elected leader of the dead man walking party.

Oh boy. Is this actually confirmed? DUmb and Dumber were fighting it out, so it was never going to be promising whoever won.

Does make Jacinta Price the odd one out given she switched parties to run with ANgus.