After disastrous election results, conservative party acknowledges the need for change and....

...tries winding the clock back 10 years.

That's the best they can do?

We have 30million people in Australia, and they need to recycle old men who lost an election years ago?

Nailing the coffin shut.

Abbott and co played their part in the purge of moderate so-called small l liberals and now they are a minor party that unsurprisingly fails to represent the broad interests of right of centre voters.

You can hate the ALP right for keeping public schooling down to look after religious schools, backing socially conservative policies, neo-liberal economics increasing the wealth divide, an erosion of workers rights and govt services, anti environmental policies and being the mates of big business and foreign lobbies. But they keep the ALP relevant to a wider range of voters than a socialist workers party ever could and keep them in government. The Libs had breadth and a huge brand and they chose to give it up because they couldn't see the big picture.

Now someone on the right might as well go for ON or a teal or perhaps even the ALP.

This is going to be hilarious. The libs are already completely out of touch, then they put Tony Abbott in charge. Tony Abbott the lizard-person... Famous for always choosing the unpopular path. You can't make this up. His legacy was already mud now he wants to be party president just as the party dies.

Liberal leadership is flailing about looking for some way to avoid going extinct, and a bright spark decided let’s pull an ex-PM out of retirement and see if he can do the job.

John Howard is too old, and won’t do it. Malcolm Turnbull is too rich, and won’t do it. Scott Morrison is too busy waiting to be raptured, and won’t do it.

Who do we have left…?

As a vehemently left winger, ha!

But also, I like a stronger centre right to keep the left wing in check too and be more representative of the actual predominant feeling of the electorate. But Abbott? Please. What a terrible but utterly predictable outcome that will produce nothing beneficial to the liberals and arguably leave them in the doldrums for many years to come. If they're trying to get those that have moved towards the Nats and ON back on their side they've got it wrong yet again.

Sloan Zone (just before his current hiatus) touched on this topic and unsurprisingly, the Liberals have chosen to double-down on barreling towards irrelevancy as quickly as possible.

Never forgive him for the NBN cluster thingy, amongst other things.

What a piece of .... I suppose Peta Credlin will appear soon as Deputy President!!

I almost thought someone posted an old article here as a joke

@Quokka What could possibly go wrong?