As the old saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, which must make Liberal ‘moderates’ barking mad.
As if we didn’t know that already. But these gibbering loons are clearly determined to leave no doubt, in the wake of a devastating election loss largely brought on by the ‘moderates’ themselves.
With an apparent complete lack of self-reflection, they’re urging Australia’s centre-right major party to follow the lead of the British counterparts. Yes, really. Have none of them checked how the Tories are doing at the polls, lately?
With odd uniformity, luminaries such as George Brandis, James McGrath, Simon Birmingham, have pointed to the words of Theresa May who, at the turn of the last century, labelled her party the “nasty party”.
These figures argue this was a turning point. It led to David Cameron – “a liberal Tory somewhat resembling Malcolm Turnbull,” in Brandis’s words – taking control.
If Theresa May, David Cameron and Malcolm Turnbull are the best examples of electability they can come up with, they really are nucking futs.
The most obvious response to such grand theorising is to ask: have any of these people picked up a British newspaper lately? […]
If progressives in the Liberal Party want to use examples from Britain as their model for the future, then they need to get with the times. The advice they are providing is about as delusional as saying the royals need to become more like Meghan Markle to save the monarchy.
The absolutely white-hot issue in Britain, indeed across the West, is immigration. Even under the supposedly ‘hard-headed’ Peter Dutton, the coalition could barely bring itself to mention immigration policy.
Progressive Liberals love to talk about the need to reach out to women, but if they summoned the courage to talk to some of them in real-life they would discover some interesting things.
If you push them, even “teal yoga mums” are surprisingly receptive to cuts to immigration. The ridiculous scenes in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, where the riot squad was called in to restore order in selective school exams, are viewed with dismay. They worry what mass immigration will mean for their kids’ ability to afford a house. Australian women, like those in Europe and elsewhere, also have growing concerns about their personal safety in increasingly “diverse” neighbourhoods. Simply saying the answer to this is more female candidates is patronising.
Especially when you see the ‘quality’ of female candidates that Labor’s quotas are producing.
If the Australian centre-right is genuinely looking to Britain for models for the future it could do far worse than focus on what Danny Kruger, Miriam Cates, Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick are saying. It is not only immigration but trade, foreign policy, family policy and the entire economic model of modern western countries that needs to be radically re-examined.
Especially the concept of ‘bipartisanship’. Like ‘diversity’, the chattering elite simply take it for granted that it’s a good thing. For ordinary voters, though, ‘bipartisanship’, especially on immigration, is nothing but the elites ganging up against the rest of us.
At some level, most people recognise that a dramatic restructuring of the existing bipartisan policy framework needs to happen. What is in place now is not working.
The future of the Liberal Party is not teal progressivism pushed by those from yesteryear. Nor is it some open-borders market-above-all utopia, which sees Australia as nothing more than an economic zone. The future is a thoughtful new conservatism.
Which means putting the ‘moderates’ back in the boxes, and growing a spine and not paying attention to the shrieking and gibbering of the mainstream media and the chattering left on social media.
If those screeching ninnies were any sort of barometer, Kamala Harris would have won last year with a landslide. So would Hillary Clinton. Instead, the direct opposite happened.
It’s almost as if the MSM are living on a different planet to the rest of us, which they’re apparently sharing with Liberal ‘moderates’.
