What makes bastards untenable is not being an arsehole it is adding hypocrisy to the crime. Enter Chris Pyne:
Reflecting on Mr Turnbull’s fall, Mr Pyne said he “felt that it was the end of an era” in the sense it cemented a trend in which politicians responded rashly to bad polls and criticism in the media.
“I felt that the constant social media, shouty segment of the press, that keeps everybody on edge in this building all the time – and might actually not reflect at all the way the public think – had won, and that sensible people had bowed to that irrational pressure,” he said.
