The floods seamlessly tied together all of Scott Morrison’s biggest failures into one giant catastrophe

Scott Morrison visits a flood-damaged home in Sydney. ‘These floods serve as a reminder that the Coalition government’s ambitions over the past three terms have been too limited and we are now all paying the price,’ Peter Lewis writes. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

The flooding that has ravaged south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales over the past month represents a perfect political storm for a prime minister about to face the people he purports to lead.

While the levees have breached in one tributary of Liberal National party heartland, the implications will be more broadly felt, with hapless, homeless victims serving as living testament to Scott Morrison’s limitations all the way to voting day.