No place for Julie as boys’ club boss
ELEVEN votes is all Julie Bishop received in the first round of Friday’s Liberal leadership spill before her elimination.
That’s all she received in return for more than a decade of service as deputy leader; for all her immense popularity and her competence and intelligence.
Peter Dutton, a man who before last week was best known for his remarkable likeness to the dullest of vegetables and for a tasteless quip about rising sea levels, received 38 votes in that first round before ultimately losing to grey man Scott Morrison.
Bishop should be prime minister today, but the Liberal Party chose to self-immolate rather than to be led by a thoroughly capable and outstandingly popular woman.
They’ll be destroyed at the next election because of their stupidity and spitefulness.
A snap Roy Morgan poll conducted the day before the spill showed what was blindingly obvious to all but the conga line of indistinguishable men in blue ties queuing up to ON FEDERAL POLITICS
Bet (Dutton) is not feeling so good about the hand of Tony planted some place the sun will never shine now. James Neill
(Dutton) was never going to be PM he was only the fall guy to test the water for Scott , they aren’t stupid, they knew what they were doing. Brett Kucks
Putting (Bishop) in as PM would be the quickest way to get sold out to the UN and the cheque book to be used at insatiable rate!! Len Welbourn take Turnbull’s job – Julie Bishop was the Liberals’ only chance to save a bit of the furniture.
She held a commanding 64 per cent lead as preferred prime minister with daylight coming in second, followed by Bill Shorten at 36 per cent.
By comparison, the polling showed our new prime minister Scott Morrison in an un-
Stitched up. Turnbull and Dutton gone in one go . Walked straight into that one, Sucker!! Claudio Guajardo
I always said a potato couldn’t run the country! I’m so glad 45 Lib MPs agreed with me! Bron Brosnan
(Dutton) should do the honourable thing and leave the Parliament. Why is it expected the former PM resign and yet the challenger who fails left to continue stirring? He has played a big part in destroying his party and should have the decency to bow out before his electorate kicks him out. Peter Pitcher splittable dead heat in a head to head match up with Shorten.
Dutton was only slightly more popular than a gastro outbreak on a school camp.
He didn’t even poll well in his home state in Queensland, despite the fact the Longman by-election annihilation was being used as the flimsy justification to roll Turnbull in the first place.
It’s not as though the Liberals are ignorant to Bishop’s popularity – she is well known for being a fantastically bankable fundraiser and a reliable campaigner for lesser-known local members.
Bishop’s appeal was broad and she was the preferred Liberal leader across all age It’s not over yet. Nige Melling
So glad (Bishop) lost out, otherwise the Aussie checkbook would have been opened at full throttle for any overseas donations. She was the worst candidate. Kerry Hancock
Are you serious??? Like the rest of the muppets in Canberra the only thing (Bishop) is interested in is her own self interest. Alison Tabone
Maybe, just maybe, it didn’t have anything to do with gender. They may actually believe Morrison would be better. Heather M MacLean
There won’t be another female PM for years. It’s not in the interest of powers that be to distil their privilege and power. And they wouldn’t know how to. Systemic discrimination prevails. We could try education ... oh wait. That means people need access to quality education, the kind that teaches you how to think, not just what to think. Judy Lovell
Until misogyny is eliminated from the Liberal Party, there will never be a female Liberal Prime Minister. Cheryl Salter
Julia Gillard ruined it for any women in politics..... Ray Medlicott
The only female PM Australia will ever see is Pauline Hanson Only then will we move forward. Alayne Charles Stuart
I am not a liberal but would have voted for Julie Bishop. Melinda Anne Saw
Julie we really admire you and you professional style. Pam Hudson ON WHAT YOUR GO-TO DRINK SAYS ABOUT YOU
I wonder what 14 beers mean. Tania Mace That you’re going to be a trash bag? Terrianne Hicks