Julie Bishop — the biggest sore loser in politics

She caims she would have been the Coalition’s best chance of beating Bill Shorten in the upcoming election but Julie Bishop’s delusions of grandeur would have delivered Peter Dutton as PM, writes Miranda Devine.

Julie Bishop is delusional.

She claims she would have been the Coalition’s best chance of beating Bill Shorten in the upcoming election and that she had the numbers to beat Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton to PM in last year’s Liberal party coup.

But she says she was doublecrossed by colleagues.

Dumping a bucket on the PM on the eve of a crucial visit to her home state of WA is a low act. But her numbers don’t even stack up.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop. Picture: Daniel Wilkins

She claims she should have had 28 votes in the August 24 party room meeting at which Morrison was made PM, instead of the paltry 11 she got. But that means her extra votes would have come off Morrison’s first round total of 36, leaving him with 19 and knocking him out of contention. Dutton had 38.

In the second round, Dutton would have needed only five of Morrison’s votes for a win but would have got half.

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Bishop was strategically dumped by her own moderate faction to avoid handing Dutton victory.

Bishop then excoriates Dutton as electoral kryptonite in WA because he fought against a better GST deal. Yet she would have delivered Dutton as PM.

She is now the biggest sore loser in Australian politics.

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