Sussan Ley and David Littleproud may have save the coalition agreement, but they’re far from saving the coalition. Instead, they’ve clearly learned nothing from the election drubbing and have doubled down on what failed so spectacularly.
Contrary to the smug bullshit farted out by the mainstream media, the coalition didn’t lose by ‘being too conservative for a progressive electorate’. If that was true, Labor’s vote would have skyrocketed. Instead, it barely nudged above the record-low of 2022. If it was true, the Greens would be a force to be reckoned with, rather than being almost completely wiped out of the lower house.
Voters didn’t swing in droves to the ‘progressive’ left: they walked away from a coalition which, bizarrely, walked away from conservatism come election time. The centre-right vote was diffused among a plethora of minor parties.
Instead of learning from the worst election campaign in living memory, and from a gaggle of ‘moderate’ (i.e., wannabe-progressive) state coalition branches who’ve been consigned to electoral hammering after hammering, the newly repaired federal coalition are set on repeating what’s already failed miserably.
The shadow cabinet assembled by Sussan Ley and David Littleproud tells us all we need to know.
Rising star Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who daringly chose to sit with the Liberals instead of the Nationals to support Angus Taylor’s leadership bid, has been demoted from her role as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians. This is despite overseeing the coalition’s only electoral victory in recent memory – the Voice to Parliament referendum. The reward for being a popular media figure is obscurity dished out by an unsteady leader […]
The promotion of Alex Hawke (Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation) and Julian Leeser (Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for the Arts) is like deliberately giving yourself a white ant infestation.
With those two around, there’s not much point bothering to save the coalition because it clearly doesn’t want to be saved.
While the ‘moderates’ have worked hard to consign the coalition to never-ending defeat, its centre-right conservatives have spent the last few years barnstorming town halls around the country like rockstars. But if there’s one thing the ‘moderates’ hate more than merit, it’s success.
The two most popular members, the ones who would win a landslide election if they were shuffled about, were nowhere to be seen. Alex Antic and Matt Canavan are being kept as far away from the weak and shrivelled soggy factional appointments in case they overshadow them simply by being in the same room. They are like a pair of blue supergiant stars, locked in orbit, sucking air and matter away from the featureless cloud of wets.
Political parties that constrain their talent to further the careers of lesser men and women are doomed to fail.
Meanwhile, the dripping wets promoted by the soggy duo of Ley and Littleproud are trying to re-write recent history, portraying the Voice defeat as somehow damaging to the coalition.
A few of those promoted to the Shadow Cabinet are talking about the Voice victory as if it damaged the party. Yes. The only political victory in which the coalition found itself listening to the will of the majority of Australia is now being blamed for the loss.
With that kind of logic, where can they hope to go?
They have evidently lost their minds and joined the left in revisionist history.
As someone who has been a Blue Ribbon Liberal all my life, and comes from a long line of Blue Ribbon voters, I am ashamed of them. I find them repulsive. Their fickle character and total lack of conservative instinct makes my skin crawl.
As the Spectator points out, the surest sign that this is a disastrous shadow ministry, destined for ignominy, is that the left media are congratulating Sussan Ley. Just like they were gaga for Malcolm Turnbull when he knifed Tony Abbott. How’d that work out for the coalition?
When will the ‘moderates’ learn that you will never defeat the left by slavishly copying them?
