SO.

On Tuesday morning, Australians woke up to the news there had been a leadership spill.

Well…kind of.

Peter Dutton, the politician who looks a lil’ bit like a potato, tried to take over the leadership of the coalition.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wasn’t having it.

Turnbull ended up defeating Dutton 48-35 in a leadership ballot in the Liberal party room.

As leadership spills are now our national sport, Aussies got to tweetin’ bout it.

Here are the best tweets about the leadership spill that never was:

1.

there’s no prime minister. you know what that means: time to go and do a consequence-free fart on the governor-general

— Eleanor Robertson (@marrowing) August 20, 2018

2.

I think we can all agree that leadership spills are much better when they are announced the night before so we can all salivate over them longer. #libspill

— Charlie Pickering (@charliepick) August 20, 2018

3.

Australia your prime minister is… #auspol #libspill pic.twitter.com/2dVyU3RfNf

— Mich-Elle Myers (@MichMyersMUA) August 20, 2018

4.

guess we better put out our potatoes

— sam langford (@_slangers) August 20, 2018

5.

Perhaps it is coincidental, perhaps not, but no Australian Prime Minister has served a full term since #Twitter was invented.

— Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) August 21, 2018

6.

well i’m sure that’s the last we’ll hear of that.

— Scott Ludlam (@Scottludlam) August 20, 2018

7.

#PutYourPotatosOut #auspol pic.twitter.com/Ifkj6b9P2j

— David Alexander (@davidFalexander) August 20, 2018

8.

tfw you’re a potato and also not prime minister pic.twitter.com/jfzGKIp08u

— Jonathan Sala (@tamasys) August 20, 2018

9.

A friend has just remarked that a leadership challenge in Australia means it’s time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms. This is useful advice.

— Marcus Strom (@strom_m) August 20, 2018

10.

I shan’t be putting myself forward in #LibSpill. Whilst the role of Prime Chinister is appealing, I am at heart a Marxist. Think I’ll need to take over a different party.

Watch out @RichardDiNatale!

— Lee Lin Chin (@LeeLinChinSBS) August 21, 2018

11.

We cross live to the latest from the race for the Liberal Party leadership #auspol #libspill pic.twitter.com/4MQ0fvNHZw

— David Alexander (@davidFalexander) August 20, 2018

12.

I think all Australians have the right to hug a quilt, take a Bex & have a good lie down, given that there are 35 actual members of parliament who think PETER FREAKIN DUTTON should lead this country.

Let me congratulate ol’ Harbourside for prevailing. #auspol #libspill

— Van Badham (@vanbadham) August 20, 2018

13.

Straya. #auspol pic.twitter.com/wFn4rEMDhv

— Senthorun Raj (@senthorun) August 20, 2018

14.

It’s… time. #PutOutYourPotatoes pic.twitter.com/rSkMJpg3Fw

— Richard Tuffin ???? (@RichardTuffin) August 21, 2018