Liberals sharpening their knives already for John Brogden?

As the blame game flares, shell-shocked Liberals are asking whether it is worth persisting with Mr Brogden or whether the experiment should be terminated and a new leader chosen.
The front-runner is Barry O'Farrell, MP for Ku-ring-gai and a former Liberal state director, but he has indicated he will re-nominate Mr Brogden for the leadership at the first post-election meeting of MPs.

I remember when Paul Keating challenged Bob Hawke for the ALP leadership in July 1991 and lost, he vowed not to do it again. As we all should know, by the end of that same year he'd not only challenged him again, he won that time. Moral of the story being, of course, that the mere fact that a politician says something doesn't mean shit, especially not when it comes to questions of leadership. Not to say that Mr O'Farrell necessarily will stab Johnny boy in the back when the crunch come, but you never can tell...

posted by James Russell | 6:57 PM