This is what we call the Liberal leadership show

Preferring his comfortable balcony view, McWaldorf declines to join in...

leaving more room for a keen youngster to show he’s ready to play with the big guys...

although the big guys might have other ideas  ("Key backroom fixers! I will count them. Three! Three key backroom fixers. Ha, ha, ha!").

Meanwhile, ambivalent squeaking noises suggest fears in one corner that the leadership laboratory may not be sufficiently safe to enter...

while another may be worried his old record in economic management still creates a slight image issue.