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A week after the party’s biggest election loss since inception, the Liberal Party now has a third candidate throwing his hat in the ring to take over party leadership.
The reason it has taken him so long is because nobody really knew if he was going to be in Parliament until a couple of days ago, after it took a week of careful vote counting to determine his razor thin margin.
Tim Wilson MP’s still very shaky victory represents the only gain made by the Liberals across the entire country at the Federal. 2025 election. This comes after spending three-years treading water after being ousted from the Melbourne seat of Goldstein by the teal independent Zoe Daniel in 2022.
In true ‘Wet Liberal’ fashion, Tim Wilson refuses to confirm whether he is interested in becoming next leader, but somehow it has been leaked to the media that he is thinking about it.
Mr Wilson is expected to announce his decision at some point today, and will likely pitch himself as the ‘moderate voice’ that is needed to rebuild the Liberal Party after ‘voters decided to go another way’.
This is basically a politician’s way of saying the party that he has dreamed of leading since he was a teenager has been hijacked by Sky News watching lunatics and needs to shake off the very unelectable stench of rural conservatives.
The 45-year-old Wilson describes himself as a ‘marriage equality advocate’ and ‘fiscal conservative’ – a brand of Liberal politics that was considered very ‘modern’ ten years ago, before the world got ravaged by a global pandemic that gave way to much bigger issues that required far more from our leaders than lightweight contrarianisms.
He will need to fight off two other contenders to win the leadership, namely the Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor, and the only female candidate Sussan Ley.
Wilson has no qualms fighting off Ley, given his very recently successful track record in defeating assertive females who have something that he wants.
When it comes to Angus Taylor, he will need to compete with a much more experienced Liberal frontbencher, who is also a man.
On top of this, he will need to lead a Coalition that is now more beholden to rural conservatvies than ever before. The National Party and the LNP had a much better election result than their Liberal Party colleagues – and will refuse to be told what to do by some soy-latte drinking nerd from down south.
When approached for comment from the Betoota Advocate, National Party MPs responded to Tim Wilson’s leadership tilt by first laughing hysterically, before telling us to get fucked, before revealing that they didn’t really know who he was, before laughing again, and then eventually conceding that not one of them will ever take orders from an inner-city Melbourne yuppie who only just won his seat by a couple hundred votes.
