If there’s one silver lining to Saturday’s historic One Nation by-election win, it’s this: Tim Wilson will never, ever, ever be treasurer of Australia.
Despite insisting they’ve heard the message from Farrer, Wilson and his hapless leader clearly have no idea how to dig the Liberal Party out of this existential hole. “For too long, we have been a party of convenience, not of conviction,” said Angus Taylor after the result, a line that could have been written for any number of satirical politicians.