James Patterson is getting high on his own supply and thinks he’s the wunderkind of the Liberal Party. Despite what he and the establishment thinks, populism, (the will of the people) is the Liberals only ticket back.
Think, Reform UK. The last thing they need is more of the Matt Kean mindset.
The Liberal Party rot and decay precedes Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Price by many, many years. All they’ve done is read and articulate the public mood.
For far too long the Libs have been timid and risk averse.
There’s no can-do dynamism, no originality of thought and they give no reason to vote for them apart from the fact that Labor is worse while themselves being a party of clueless, musty, stale establishment farts.
All of this while trying to walk both sides of the street they’ve gotten away with playing a game of mirroring Labor with Turnbull like, Labor lite policies believing they can just lay back and cruise into government.
They have exhibited no desire to change in which case they must 𝐁𝐄 changed from within or let the Nationals combined with One Nation take the lead while the Libs become a useless rump.