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Not content with having shot holes below the waterline of the Good Ship Coalition, the ‘moderates’ are setting fire to the lifeboats even as the captain frantically bales. New leader Angus Taylor’s announced immigration policies were a last-ditch effort to save the sinking coalition from going completely under. ‘Nothing doing,’ say the moderates.
A Liberal senator has condemned his own party for creating “two types of community members” by pushing tax-paying migrants off welfare benefits, and raised concerns with Angus Taylor’s use of the term “mass immigration” in his budget reply speech.
It’s like these cretins want to lose. After a humiliating election drubbing, followed by sinking to the lowest polling in the party’s history, you’d think they might have finally started to clue that aping the left’s talking points on migration, welfare and multiculturalism isn’t exactly a winning strategy. But, no… instead, they’re doubling down on what’s so spectacularly failed and publicly knifing their own side for the unforgivable sin of putting Australians first.
Under Taylor’s proposal, tax-paying permanent migrants will have to become citizens to access welfare payments.
The opposition leader said the coalition would claw back billions of dollars by cutting welfare, including the National Disability Insurance Scheme, JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, and the Family Tax Benefit, for non-citizens.
This begs the question: what sane country would do otherwise?
For many permanent migrants, this would require them to renounce their birthplace if dual citizenship is not permitted.
Well, whoop-de-do. The choice is plain: you either choose Team Australia, or you don’t. As Joh Bjelke-Petersen once said, you can’t walk a fence with a foot in each paddock.
It seems coalition policy is now that we will have two types of community members. Despite both paying tax and contributing to the wealth of the nation, only one class has access to certain benefits.
What, exactly, have some Indian or Chinese grandparents, handwaved in under the ridiculously wide-open Family Reunion scheme, ever contributed to Australia? Because it’s exactly these type of migrants who constitute the bulk of migration: some 60 per cent. The semi-mythical ‘skilled migrants’ make up barely one in 10 of the flood of millions of welfare-hoovers. Yet, despite never having done a damn thing for Australia, Indian and Chinese grannies are able to claim Australian pensions, as well as, if they’re dual citizens, pensions from their home countries that they refuse to actually relinquish.
Spare me. The only ‘two types’ here are Australians who built the place and the queue-jumpers who expect to cash in without signing up. Yet McLachlan’s real outrage is reserved for Taylor daring to use the entirely-accurate phrase “mass immigration” in his budget reply speech.
“The use of terms such as mass migration adopts the language and tone of the hard right and its fellow travellers,” he said.
That would be the ‘hard right’ who are, in fact, the centre-right, and wiping the floor in the polls and at the ballot box with these simpering blue-green jellyfish laughingly dubbed ‘moderates’. This is the same limp-wristed drivel that cost the Liberals the last election.
In case anyone doubts just how utterly detached from reality this fool is, merely consider this:
We must resist the urge to look to One Nation for policy leadership. Their agenda is not congruent with long-standing Liberal thinking.
No, but it is congruent with winning what were once long-standing Liberal voters. But sure, keep ignoring the droves of voters who’ve abandoned the pathetic ‘moderate’ coalition for Pauline Hanson. Because nothing says ‘moderate’ like lecturing your own voters that hard-working Australians must keep subsidising non-citizens who refuse to fully commit.
This is exactly why the coalition remains irrelevant. The moderates who oversaw the party’s descent into electoral oblivion still refuse to learn the obvious lesson: aping Labor’s open-borders, welfare-without-strings multiculturalism is never going to be a winner for a supposed centre-right party. The base has spoken, loudly and repeatedly, and it has rejected the soggy, guilt-ridden vision of migration-as-moral-virtue.
Instead of listening, Andrew McLachlan and his dwindling band of moderates lecture the almost-conservative wing for finally drawing a line in the sand.
These idiots deserve to lose.
