With One Nation storming up the polls, the Liberal-National Coalition, especially the senior partners the Liberals, seem determined to doom themselves to extinction. Or, at least, the ‘moderate’ wing of the Liberals. These woke lettuce leaves continue to labour under the delusion that aping every lunar policy of the green-left will somehow tempt people to vote for them in droves.
How any adult with a functioning brain cell could reach such a conclusion is beyond belief. Left-wing voters will just keep voting for the real left parties. Conservative voters will just keep deserting the coalition in droves.
Like this:
More than 200 members have suddenly quit the South Australian Liberal Party in protest at what they see as Sussan Ley’s weak leadership and the failure of the federal branch of the party to abandon a net-zero emissions target […]
The resignations began dribbling in when members were asked to renew for the 2025–26 financial year but sources say they have been coming “in a rush” over the past month as the federal Liberals brawl over climate targets.
One senior source said it would be wrong to suggest that the members who had quit were “extremists or hardliners”, rather longstanding members who were “simply fed up”.
“These aren’t cookers and crackpots,” the source said. “They are people who have been longstanding members of the party for 20, 30, 40 years.
Surprise, surprise, it all rests at the feet of the ‘moderates’.
Those tensions have been fuelled by the fact that the SA Liberal parliamentary party remains wedded in principle to net zero, with several MPs within the historically moderate-dominated branch worried about the impact of opposing climate targets in middle-class electorates ahead of the state poll in March.
And there’s the crux of it: like Luxon’s National, these bourgeois clowns are unable to see outside their little, upper-middle-class silos. Instead of, as a Good Oil commenter recently noted, “[spending] their time at home going to churches, service clubs, sporting events, buying groceries locally and being at one with the people they represented,” they’re terrified of missing an invite to the fashionable dinner parties in their elite, blue-green suburbs. The Greens and Teals are, after all, the wealthiest voting blocs in the country, and it shows.
The ‘moderates’ are so obsessed with trying to win back Toorak and Double Bay (think, Ponsonby and Grey Lynn) that they’re deaf to what people in the mortgage-belt suburbs are screaming at them.
‘Moderates’ like current leader Sussan Ley have been the gift Labor could never have expected in their wildest dreams. As even Australia’s [taxpayer-funded far-left propaganda outfit] ‘national broadcaster’ worries, dumping Ley and dragging the Liberals back to their centre-right roots would be Labor’s worst nightmare.
As shambolic as the coalition appears this week, another chapter in the climate wars may not be all upside for the government.
Because, despite the relentless propagandising by Labor and their legacy media camp-followers, sooner or later, people are going to look at their power bills and realise they’ve been sold a gigantic lie. If, as Boofhead Bowen ludicrously insists, wind and solar really are the cheapest forms of energy, then why are our power bills going through the roof in lockstep with the drive to adopt wind and solar?
Exactly as they have everywhere else it’s been tried.
Energy prices continue to rise, contributing to higher inflation. Two aluminium smelters are now facing an uncertain future as they struggle to find affordable power. There are parts of Australia where the words “net zero” won’t necessarily be celebrated.
The coalition may not have an alternative policy to magically fix the problem, but it will have a blunt message linking every higher price to Labor’s policy.
It worked for Tony Abbott. The legacy media may have sniffed at his ‘three-word slogans’, but “great, big, new tax” and “tax on everything” drove home a clearer and more rational message than all of Boofhead and Magoo’s blatherskite. Not to mention the lies of the legacy media.
The government knows it will need to keep making the case for why the great energy transition is necessary for both the environment and the hip pocket.
Well, they can try, but sooner or later people are going to look at their bills and start believing their lyin’ eyes.
