Any whiff of dissent within a political party and it is like the bone to the hungry dog, making them crazy with determination to suck on it, to chew it and to dissect it until there is nothing left.
The frenzy sparked by the media today in all its sensationalist glory makes it seem that the leadership challenge (a concept around for as long as parliament itself) but yet, it is these organisations that make the challenges seem new, and unprecedented.
Sure, the Rudd/Gillard debacle in June of 2010 was something out of the ordinary, because as well all know and expect, a Prime Minister being taken out by his own party while incumbent in the leadership is once in a blue moon.
However, for the party in the opposition leadership changes are practically synonymous, especially if they lost with damaging figures.
The media make it appear, and thus influence the people that the party is unstable, out of control and plainly not fit for government.
But ladies, as you will know, trying to find a perfect fit of a shoe is about s hard as trying to do a 1000 word jigsaw puzzle at midnight.
Finding the right leader in a party after the loss of an election means essentially something has gone wrong and the necessary change has to occur if the party has a chance to win.
There is nothing wrong with the party’s option to change, there is nothing unprecedented about it but the simple fact that in order to find Cinderella’s glass slipper; the perfect fit you have to kiss a lot of frogs, go through leaders and the processes to find the right one.
And that is why we need leadership challenges.
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