Report: It's Not Easy Picking A Leader In A Party Full Of Men That Were Born To Rule

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The Liberal Party remains stuck in purgotry this week, as the far-right populists from One Nation surge ahead in the polls.

After months of noisy own-goals and easy penalties, the Australian media has begun cheerleading for Pauline Hanson as their preferred leader of the opposition, even though there is not one political commentator who truly believes she has the required interpersonal skills or vetting processes to lead a major party.

Meanwhile, Sussan Ley remains destabilised and lacks the confidence of the National Party - who have said they will not be rejoining the Federal Coalition until she is replaced as leader.

The only thing stopping this from happening, is that the Liberal Party is unable to decide on who will take over.

It seems that the Libs have TOO MUCH talent and depth.

The two most hyped candidates, Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor, have this week met to discuss which one of them is going to step down and let the other get one step closer to their dream of running the country.

Some senior conservatives have downplayed the rumours of an imminent leadership spill, suggesting there was insufficient appetite in the partyroom to support ousting Ley.

However, the meeting still went ahead. And it's only made things worse.

Anonymous Liberal women are apparnetly angry that the male MPs chose the morning of former Liberal MP Katie Allen's funeral to host their 'new leader' summit - as well as the fact that not one woman was invited to take part in the conspiracy to oust their first female leader.

On top all of the bad optics that comes from this kind of back-channelling and meddling, the meeting was still fruitless - as it is understood neither of the conservative rivals were able to come to an agreement on who should lead and who should play second fiddle.

While Hastie and Taylor are just the two potential new leaders that the public knows about - they are also joined by the likes Tim Wilson, Dan Tehan - and multiple other people that have been voted out and will be seeking to return to Parliament at the next election.

In fact, it's fair to say every single bloke in the Liberal Party thinks they could be Prime Minister one day, and have been told that by a lot of people since they were little.