So Cory Bernardi has finally done it.  Today he leaves the Liberal party for his own vanity project, taking the six-year Senate term his late party gifted him to be yet another self-deluded messiah in the loony bin that is the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Good riddance to him.

By leaving the Liberals, slamming the dunny door on the way out, Bernardi may think he’s striking a powerful blow for his idiosyncratic version of conservatism against the progressive cancer he believes is eating his now former party.