NSW councillor Nathan Tilbury all smiles after leaving Liberal party days before nomination fiasco

Hornsby councillor Nathan Tilbury, who resigned from the Liberal party this week, will run in the local government elections. Photograph: supplied

While many of his former colleagues were furious this week, local councillor Nathan Tilbury has been feeling pretty happy as a former Liberal.

Two days before the party failed to nominate more than 130 candidates for next month’s New South Wales local government elections, Tilbury handed in his resignation.