Victorian Liberal MPs: you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things

Earlier today, a motion to spill the Victorian opposition leadership of Michael O’Brien failed to get the numbers after challenger Brad Battin called it on yesterday.

Brad who, you ask quite rightly.  Battin’s a solid MP but outside Victorian parliament and Liberal party circles, nobody’s heard of him.  Nevertheless, Battin felt compelled to challenge for the top job, and today was firmly rebuffed by most of his fellow MPs.

Some of those MPs did so out of loyalty to O’Brien. Others acted from a determination to roll O’Brien and replace him with former leader, Matthew Guy, but at a time of their own choosing, not Batten’s.

This farce had its moments, however. It saw, for example, out-there conservative Bernie…