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Now it’s Labor’s turned to get scared of One Nation. The Albanese government has so far been mostly content to sit by and gloat as the rise of One Nation consigned the Liberal-National coalition to minor party irrelevance. But as polls increasingly show One Nation eating into Labor’s already near-record-low vote, the government is clearly rattled.
Their growing nervousness is understandable: as demographic analysis shows, there are at least 10 federal seats with demographic markers of strong One Nation voters, such as age, education level, income and religion. Two of those seats are Labor seats. Another 20 have at least two One Nation demographic markers. Seven are Labor. One Nation holds New England, one of the two-marker seats.
With Labor’s primary vote at lows that would once have consigned it to the political wilderness, and poll numbers sliding towards its lowest in history, the bean-counters are sweating. It’s still highly unlikely that One Nation will rally numbers to take government, but they’re poised to make Labor’s life hell in the lower house, let alone the Senate.
So, what’s Labor to do? Go on the attack, of course – and likely shoot themselves in the foot.
Labor will seek to “expose” One Nation as a party that hurts Aussie battlers and warn the Liberals can’t run the country without Pauline Hanson, in a bid to win back a growing number of voters who have switched their allegiance to the right-wing party.
Senior cabinet minister Murray Watt, Anthony Albanese’s closest factional ally in Queensland, also revealed Labor wouldn’t run a negative campaign against the One Nation leader, as it did against Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton, acknowledging “I don’t think it works to insult Pauline Hanson personally”.
Bollocks, they won’t. But then, they probably won’t have to: their legacy media lickspittles will do it for them, gratis.
But what’s the basis of Watt’s claim that One Nation “hurts Aussie battlers” (as if Labor would know a battler if they drove over them with their EVs)?
“They vote with the Libs more than 80 per cent of the time. They’ve opposed Labor’s cost-of-living relief every step of the way – same job same pay, bulk billing, cheaper childcare, affordable housing, cheaper medicines, there’s an endless list – every single cost-of-living measure we’ve delivered for battlers has been opposed by One Nation and we need to highlight that.”
As we see, a socialist can only judge anything by the metric of socialism. Note everything Watt lists: every single one of them is either a blatant lie or a socialist boondoggle. Every one of Labor’s ‘cost-of-living relief’ is just one socialist scam after another: gouging us for taxes, then handing back a pittance of our own money and expecting us to be grateful.
Not to mention that we wouldn’t even need ‘cost-of-living relief’ in the first place if it weren’t for Labor’s demented globalist policies. Housing is through the roof because of Labor flooding the country with millions of immigrants and handing even non-citizens millions in first-homebuyer grants (paid for with working people’s taxes). Even if Australians can afford the three-quarter-million dollar average mortgage, they can barely afford to light and heat it, thanks to Labor’s demented ‘Net Zero’ policies.
‘Cheaper childcare’? Hand your children to the state from birth, and back to your cubicle, peasant.
‘Bulk billing’? Bulk billing rates steadily increased until 2022: as soon as Labor got into power, they plummeted and have followed an unrelenting downward trajectory ever since.
Even as the government’s tax take reaches record highs, all they do with it is spend, spend, spend, driving up inflation and, as a consequence, interest rates.
So, by all means run this campaign, Labor: remind everyone exactly how much you’ve screwed them over.
Nationals defector Barnaby Joyce, who now represents One Nation in his NSW electorate of New England, said voters were sick of the major parties.
“They’re sick of this sort of game that’s been played where we’ve got the Liberal Party and the coalition and Labor and (they’re saying) magic will happen if you change (from) one to the other, and it’ll all get better and the cost-of-living will be fixed and house prices will come down. It just doesn’t happen,” he told Sky News.
“They don’t see a decisive change and all they heard in the rhetoric was they (the Coalition) had to win back teal seats and find the sensible centre and they just lacked a philosophical base.
“They put up with you for a while because they just want to be polite and then they just have a gutful of you and kick you out.”
And they don’t care about being polite any more. All of the left’s sneers are failing them.
And sneers are all they have left.
