What a political crisis looks like

The crisis in the Liberal party is not shown by the questions about Howard’s leadership. That is the normal reaction of a party that by all indications is heading for a historic defeat. The crisis is shown by the fact that they can’t act on it. This is why the current problems of the Liberals are of a completely different order to the hellish leadership merry-ground of the Hawke/Keating years or the post-Menzies period before Fraser. Last week saw the crisis that has been bubbling under throughout this year finally come to the surface. Three features of the events of the last week show how deep it is.
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