Ghost of a chance?

Like a spectre rising from a political grave, Ted Baillieu led the coalition to a one seat majority in the lower house of Victoria's Parliament back in 2010. The following three and a half years have not set  the government on the road to glory... rather,  they have been noted for in-action and turmoil during which Ted got rolled from the position of Premier and has been virtually invisible ever since. That is until a few days ago when a journalist's tape of an interview with Ted was leaked into the public domain.

Ted is heard giving some of his colleagues a right 'bollocking' in terminology which could not be described as the Queen's English! In one of those unfortunate co-incidents which visit us all at times, Ted's rant came just as the government had a bill refused on the casting vote of the speaker (one of their own, bound in this instance by convention that the speaker maintain the status quo when a ballot is tied). Worse, con-current announcement of recent opinion polls have the government a country mile behind the opposition with a little over 4 months remaining before a general election is due.

I can almost hear the chains rattling from here.