From a revitalised Alan Jones:
Jones, the host of 2GB’s breakfast show, declared Tony Abbott’s speech last month in which he warned the Coalition risked a “drift to defeat” should be considered a text for the Liberal Party and the nation.
Mr Abbott unveiled a five-point plan to abolish the Renewable Energy Target, scale back immigration, scrap the Australian Human Rights Commission, cut taxes and end new spending and introduce Senate reform to stop the gridlock.
“The bed wetters on the left are on the defensive. They’d rather lose and hand government to Labor than recognise the Abbott speech was timely and appropriate,” Jones said on his program.
“The fact is the Turnbull government is an ideological swamp, an ideological vacuum. They don’t have a clue what they stand for and when they seek to articulate their position, they change their mind every five minutes. Witness the company tax debate.”
This would not get the Coalition elected because the carnage in energy markets, horror at scrapping the HRC and the Budget shock would sink it just as certainly as it is drowning now. The Coalition does not need a radical alt-Right agenda to save itself. What it needs is some simple national interest policy that re-occupies the centre:
- cut immigration and boost multicultural engagement;
- fix gas markets with domestic reservation and third party export bans owing to “market failure”;
- deploy productivity based reform to boost wages and budget repair based around notions of mutual sacrifice.
Good, solid conservative government. It’s not rocket surgery.
