Tragic circumstances
If only someone had just given her a bottle of wine so she could resign in style.
According to this story she lost the support of her colleagues some time ago.
Hanging on so that she could go out with a better reputation.
Seems to me she has led the way for business by leading Australia out of the zero COVID trap that we fell into.
I wonder if they will give her a rewarding job.
In the polls, Empress Gladys is still the preferred Premier, particularly among women voters, right-wing feminists and the upwardly mobile people called millennials. However, they don’t have a vote in the party room where the Premiership is decided.
Up until a year ago, Ms Berejiklian commanded around 80% of the vote of Coalition MPs. But today it has fallen to about 15%, and if she called for a confidence vote, the “No” votes and abstentions would be massive.
These embarrassingly poor numbers have persuaded Ms Berejiklian it is time to go. However, she wants her departure to be conducted on her own terms. Can she do it? Probably not. Senior politicians can only partially organise their exits, but their colleagues pull the lever of the trapdoor.
Perrottet has fashioned a “dream ticket” to replace her;
In late news, Ms Berejiklian is reported to be thinking of staying in office until mid-year to salvage some of her tarnished reputation.
Dom, aka “Mr Pair-of-Tits”, will be furious with this turn of events: he doesn’t want any delay at all.
Perrottet is a right-wing politician with connections to the Roman Catholic sect known as Opus Dei
