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Yes, one could ask - where to for the liberals? They were expecting to win at least 10 seats. (At the time of writing) only 5 have been secured. The swing away from labor not entirely went the liberals way. Nationals, Greens, One nation etc secured more of the swing. Although labors buffer is still quite comfortable. Going to be difficult to see how the coalition can be a credible opposition? Changing the liberal leadership is not really the answer, because there is no-one. Maybe Thomas, although he may not be interested? I think Mettam has tried best she can. Wait for the after election dust to settle and build a reliable, trustworthy and honest team around her would be a good start. It will be a difficult task for the party. They could possibly be looking at another huge loss next state election.

People dislike labor ( hence the swing) BUT dislike the liberals more.

I am not sure the Libs can lay much blame at Mettam's feet. They are an ineffective opposition not just due to the lack of seats but mainly due to their propensity for being destructive rather than opposing with constructive commentary. Folk do not get a sense of what they stand for, what positives they can present and the alternative views.

The left ran a character-based campaign around the nostril for a lot of theirs and it does nothing to help those undecided voters.

The future for the Libs is with Mettam's and a loose coalition with the nationals but they need to base their presentations on what they would do different, what they think is a good idea but with their fingerprints. 

royallucky wrote:

It got heated on the TV panel between Carey and Snozzleopilas,which I thought was quite entertaining.

Ha ha good ol baz. I was standing in front of him and his loud retarded joondy mates a few years back. Yep he's one of the boys

Recon Libby will step down.
Snozzleopilas will love to take on the top job,lol

gtrxuone wrote:

Recon Libby will step down.
Snozzleopilas will love to take on the top job,lol

As tough a jobb as it will be and the limited stock of credible people, surely they would not offer it to Nasal.
He is only high profile because of his affiliation with Stokes.And also the Libs are much in debt to Stokes and Rinehart.They have run a long campaign for the Libs through PerthNow and The Nightly.As they are also doing with the Lieberals and Notionals Nation wide.
The Libs should have plenty of cash in the coffers  for the next election.But even looking into the future that far, will they even be able to gather any credible people to run.
I thought that Saffiotti ran rings around the Liberal bloke on the ABC lastr night.

Nothing to see here, easy win for cooked with his massive covid cushion.

Some huge swings away from ALP but made little impact seat wise, libs and nats picking up a few here and there, Nedlands, Churchlands, Carine, did Ok in the regions.

Libs hung on in Cottesloe despite a massive teal campaign.

Brewer is my tip for a future Lib leader, can also see a LNP party formed.

Looks like the ALP got a scare in Fremantle with a teal independent climate 200 getting close.

Apart from that its business as usual for 4 more cooked years, but with the greens with balance of power, not exciting stuff.

Grump wrote:

I am not sure the Libs can lay much blame at Mettam's feet. They are an ineffective opposition not just due to the lack of seats but mainly due to their propensity for being destructive rather than opposing with constructive commentary. Folk do not get a sense of what they stand for, what positives they can present and the alternative views.

The left ran a character-based campaign around the nostril for a lot of theirs and it does nothing to help those undecided voters.

The future for the Libs is with Mettam's and a loose coalition with the nationals but they need to base their presentations on what they would do different, what they think is a good idea but with their fingerprints. 

Yeah true, cannot blame Mettam, it was difficult to really lay a big punch as they didnt have numbers in parliament and as you say the point of difference was not really there, hospital ramping and some law and order issues but apart from labor fatigue there wasn't much difference, state labor run a pro mining pro development centrist style government  not much to differentiate so not many baseball bats waiting. Some waste on metromess lack of regional infrastructure, suburban high rise probably could of been amped up I guess. At any rate some big alp margins have been eroded.

BC wrote:

Latest call from Antony Green is that Basil will get up but more importantly, that moll McGurk looks like getting rolled in my electorate which is a good thing for Freo generally.

Not if you look at Hullet - shes, a greens funded by climate 200 a lot more nutty than whats there at the moment tbh, at any rate she will sit there for four years totally ignored and irrelevant in a alp dominated house, freo will be worse off.

I'm looking on the positive side of things. Big swings in voters back to the Liberals is trending in the right direction. Libs look like picking up Kalamunda and the Nats will just edge out the Libs in in the Murray-Wellington electorate. That would take both to 6 and 5 respectively. 11 in total, a lot better than 6 last term and with momentum. I think Libby needs to pick up a more positive vibe.