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Will the Liberal’s recent, long-delayed, leadership change be the magic bullet that saves the party from extinction? It’s far too early to tell, of course. An early poll lift, however marginal, is faint hope for the Libs, but the question is very much whether this will prove to be a dead-cat bounce.
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for rhe Australian showed [Angus Taylor] in a stronger position than Sussan Ley, who he replaced as opposition leader last month.
That isn’t saying much. Nor is the fact that Anthony Albanese is rapidly becoming as loathed in Australia as his socialist bestie, Jacinda Ardern, is in NZ.
Ahead of MPs returning to Canberra on Monday, the poll reveals support for the prime minister and Labor has fallen over the past three weeks amid rising concerns about inflation, interest rates, government spending and national security threats.
Labor’s primary vote dropped to 32 per cent, down from 37 per cent in early October, while Mr Albanese recorded his worst personal performance result since last year’s election.
The Newspoll survey of 1237 voters, which was conducted between Monday and Thursday last week, showed the coalition’s primary vote increasing to 20 per cent, up from the historic low of 18 per cent last month.
Again, that isn’t saying a hell of a lot.
The normiecon establishment are clearly grasping at anything to hide from the One Nation boogeyman.
After surging in successive polls, core support for One Nation remained static at a high-water mark primary vote of 27 per cent. The plateauing of One Nation’s votes comes after leader Pauline Hanson was heavily criticised for questioning if there were “any good Muslims” in Australia, and scrutiny ramped up on the populist party’s tax, migration and energy policies.
“Heavily criticised” by whom? The establishment political machine and its media bootlickers, maybe, not to mention a gaggle of hate-preaching imams. But in wider Australia? As left-wing pollster Essential Media reports, a significant majority – 60 per cent – of Australians indicated they were open to voting One Nation in the wake of the media beat-up. That figure includes half of current Labor voters.
Expect the media attacks to intensify in the lead-up to the crucial South Australian state and Farrer federal by-elections. If One Nation performs well in either or both, the media-political establishment will go into full meltdown mode.
The Libs, for their part, are pragmatically realising that working with One Nation, for the time being at least, is their best grasp at survival.
Ahead of the Farrer by-election, triggered by Ms Ley’s resignation, senior Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie on Sunday did not rule out a preference deal with One Nation.
Mr Hastie told Sky News he was “fine” with preferencing One Nation on how-to-vote cards.
This is a significant shift in the Overton Window. For 30 years, one of the more tiresome circuses, every election, has been the silly to-ing and fro-ing one-down-man-ship of the two major parties daring each other to put big, bad One Nation last on their how-to-vote cards. The Liberals are putting survival ahead of playing the media’s games.
As for the normiecon media, even as they try and big up Angus Taylor’s first week in the leaders’ chair, they’re still showing just how little they get it.
Angus Taylor is a better performer in parliament than Sussan Ley, but not by much […]
On his first day in parliament as Liberal leader, Taylor was more energetic, engaging and assertive than Ley […]
But the real problem for Taylor was that the tactical mistakes were built on a strategic failure.
Worse still, the strategic failure was a result of trying to recapture the wrong lost voters for the wrong reasons.
Spoiler alert: what the normiecon media think are the “wrong reasons” are almost certainly the right reasons.
Facing a Labor government that is contributing to rising inflation, interest rate rises, increasing housing costs, a retreat into negative real wages, a lift in food prices and a massive surge in energy costs, Taylor asked only about 11 ISIS supporters and their children in a camp in Syria.
Taylor was determined to appeal to people who have shifted their support from the coalition to One Nation with an appeal to “shut the gate” and “close the door” to the ISIS supporters […]
A narrow focus on ISIS brides as an appeal to Liberal supporters moving to One Nation misses the point that fears about high immigration are based on the belief that it is pushing up prices, particularly of rents and house prices, which is the real concern.
You absolute cretin.
Firstly, the “people who have shifted their support from the coalition to One Nation” are almost the entire voting base of the Liberal party – and increasingly, disaffected Labor voters. Of course Taylor has to try and appeal to them, you fatuous twit.
More importantly, while, yes, voters are concerned about the effect of mass immigration on the belief – entirely correct – on the cost of housing, that’s not the only reason. The deeper reason, also entirely founded, is that mass immigration, of Muslims in particular, is eroding Australia’s national character and tearing apart its social cohesion.
The furore over the ISIS brides is deeply entwined with this rational concern, but also somewhat separate. At heart, here, is the foundational issue of Labor’s utter subservience to the Muslim vote, to the point of deliberately importing the worst extremists into the Australian community, just to buy votes in Western Sydney.
Taylor is absolutely right to hammer the government on this one – and to call out the legacy media ‘but won’t somebody think of the children?’ bullshit.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has suggested children stranded in a Syrian refugee camp are “ISIS sympathisers”, before snapping at a journalist who questioned whether Australia should do more to bring the group home […]
The group is reportedly made up of 23 children and 11 women, but Mr Taylor said the entire cohort were effectively terrorist supporters.
Even more pointedly, opposition home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam called out the big lie about ‘children’.
“I don’t know how many of the cohort’s so-called children are below the age of 17,” he said.
“If people in their minds think this is a bunch of two- and three-year-olds who are still learning to walk and talk, this is not the cohort we’re talking about.”
The normiecon media, addicted to both mass immigration and Islamophile pandering, can clutch their pearls all they like, but Taylor is right to hammer Labor over this deadly idiocy.
