There are some journalists who are as reliable as Old Faithful – but not in the way they intend. For instance, when the Australian’s Nikki Gemmell gushes about a movie, you just know it’s a stinkeroo. Her swoon over The Odyssey is just another in the conga-line of gaslighting from the same legacy media critics who assured that the execrable Black Panther was the movie of the century. To quote Bret Easton Ellis, this garbage “is being shoved down our throats and we can only smile in disbelief”.
Another Ol’ Reliable (also from the Australian), is Troy Bramston. Troy is so wet he makes Chris Bowen look like a drought-resistant cactus. He’s so blue-green, the EPA issues a health warning when he goes near a river.
Naturally, he is adamant that the only thing that can save the woke, lettuce-leaf Liberal party is being more spinelessly wet.
“Angus Taylor. Pauline Hanson. Matt Canavan,” the invitation from the far-right CPAC says, enticing supporters to come to Brisbane. “Different lanes of the same movement, in the same room, pointed at the same goal: changing the government and getting Australia back on course.”
This association is toxic for the coalition. To be linked with the far-right xenophobic, nativist, populist Hanson as part of her movement at the same place with an identical purpose is ruinous branding for the once mainstream centre-right party. What on earth is Taylor thinking? There is good reason Sussan Ley avoided CPAC like the plague.
You’ve got to hand it to Troy: using the “far-right” slur twice in as many paragraphs is something of an achievement for even this lettuce-leaf legacy media hack. Self-awareness is clearly not his strong point, either: the reference to Sussan Ley is an inadvertent howler that suggests Troy missed his true calling as a fall guy in slapstick comedy. Sure, Ley “avoided CPAC like the plague” – and how did she end up?
Like Nikki Gemmell’s film recommendations, Troy Bramston’s political advice is as surefire a guide to what not to do as Marge Simpson’s card, “Always Do Opposite Of What Bart Says”. So, when he advises that “unless the coalition fights One Nation, it will be replaced by One Nation”, you just know an alliance with One Nation is their only hope.
So, of course Liberal leader Angus Taylor plays the gullible Homer (Simpson) to the hilt.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor says he will not enter a coalition with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party.
“I’m ruling it out,” Mr Taylor told 7.30 on Tuesday night.
“There is no plan to form any kind of coalition with One Nation.”
Mr Taylor was adamant that the current Liberal coalition with the National Party would not change as he attacked One Nation’s policies, as he did last week.
Just to make totally, absolutely, unequivocally clear that the Liberals are completely determined that no one will vote for them, ever again, they then come out with this clueless idiocy:
The Liberal Party will consider gender quotas.
Like a political Banquo’s ghost, this astonishingly dunderheaded suggestion is a hangover from the late, unlamented leadership of Sussan Ley. Yet, without a blush of critical thinking, chair of the internal review and Queensland Senator James McGrath burbles:
“Our question must be ‘What would Menzies do’.”
Well, I can’t pretend to be able to channel Ming’s spirit, but the one thing I’m pretty certain he wouldn’t do is run chasing after the far-left, yapping, ‘Me, too!’ If Boofhead Bowen would only think of hooking up the long-dead Liberal founder as he spins in his grave like a dynamo, our energy worries would be over.
The party that once stood for aspiration, individual merit and Western civilisation now debates whether it needs quotas to appeal to a mythical 38-year-old migrant woman who supposedly holds the keys to salvation. No, I’m not kidding about that.
The paper warned the parliamentary wing of the party was no longer representative of the average Australian, which it identified as a 38-year-old woman who was either born overseas or has at least one parent that was.
And here the Liberal ‘moderates’ are, clutching their pearls about ‘resistance to climate action’ and ‘perceptions’ among the young while power prices soar and suburbs burn under migrant crime waves.
This isn’t renewal. It’s capitulation. The Liberals don’t need to chase the teals or import Labor’s failed social experiments. If they really are determined to fight One Nation, the only real strategy would be outflanking them on the issues that matter: secure borders, cheap reliable energy, law and order and an end to the intergenerational theft of endless debt and open borders.
Instead, the Liberals have run up one white flag after another. Then wondered why everyone’s deserted them.
