Lessons learned from the night by two prominent Liberals, (i’m paraphrasing)
Steve Thomas: You can’t out-left the Labor party, we weren’t conservative enough.
Ken Wyatt: You need to go for a broad swathe of the electorate. You have to go to your electorate and listen to them. Elections are won from the middle.
Two different views, as ever nowadays the Liberals seem like a split party. I think the coneservatives need their more moderate peers more than they’d like to acknowledge. But i suppose we’ll see with the Federal election as well.
As usual i reckon Kens on the money with this one.
Steve is not reading the room. True, not many districts voted for the Liberal party, but they weren’t voting farther right than the Libs.
Ken has the right of it. I’ve always thought he was an odd fit for the Liberals. He’s too progressive. He resigned from the party last year so he could vote Yes in the referendum. He is actually well regarded in Midland, he’d probably do well running as an independent.
A little compare the pair for everyone.
Lessons learned from the night by two prominent Liberals, (i’m paraphrasing)
Steve Thomas: You can’t out-left the Labor party, we weren’t conservative enough.
Ken Wyatt: You need to go for a broad swathe of the electorate. You have to go to your electorate and listen to them. Elections are won from the middle.
Two different views, as ever nowadays the Liberals seem like a split party. I think the coneservatives need their more moderate peers more than they’d like to acknowledge. But i suppose we’ll see with the Federal election as well.
As usual i reckon Kens on the money with this one.
Steve is not reading the room. True, not many districts voted for the Liberal party, but they weren’t voting farther right than the Libs.
Ken has the right of it. I’ve always thought he was an odd fit for the Liberals. He’s too progressive. He resigned from the party last year so he could vote Yes in the referendum. He is actually well regarded in Midland, he’d probably do well running as an independent.