Feeling sorry for Nelson

Exclusive pictures from behind the scenes of this morning's Liberal Party leadership spill!

8:50AM - Brendan Nelson in the change room just before the Liberal Party leadership decider

9:40AM - Malcolm Turnbull burns Brendan Nelson's leadership ticket

10:15AM - Shocked and dismayed by his own party's complicity in it all, Nelson heads home

Most of you who know me well would know that my sympathies don't always lie with the Liberal Party of Australia... to say the least. This is due to my opposition to neoliberalism, economic conservatism and reactionary nationalism, all of which have been the hallmarks of the LP in the last decade or so.

However, I must say that when Brendan Nelson got dumped from the leadership of the LP this morning, I felt a little sorry for the guy.

Maybe being sick with the flu has made me soft?


I don't think so; i just think it must feel awful to be betrayed by one's own. The feeling of loneliness must be agonising.



We don't agree on many things B. Nelson, but I think we agree that this sucks.



Here's hoping you can rise up and lay the smackdown on Turnbull.





PS: Hey... maybe you could join Labor again? I mean, there's not much difference nowadays anyway...