Lot’s of righteous and correct condemnation of Frazer Anning in the MSM today. His comments were pure poison and deserve the serve. Jess Irvine is out front:
Anning’s policy wish list includes: abolishing 457 visas (which “simply steal jobs”); restricting family reunion visas to spouses and dependent children; “drastically reducing” student visa numbers and requiring foreign students to return to their country of origin before applying to migrate; reducing overall immigration intake to “a level which can be supported”; and restricting migration to people who “predominantly reflect the historic European-Christian composition of Australian society and embrace our language, culture and values as a people”.
“The final solution to the immigration problem is, of course, a popular vote,” Anning concluded, before proposing a plebiscite “to allow the Australian people to decide whether they want wholesale non-English speaking immigrants from the Third World and, in particular, whether they want any Muslims”.
That’s horrible stuff for the sensible and centrist lower immigration movement, stealing reasonable policy positions and yoking them to ahistorical toxic garbage. MB rejects this stuff outright.
The politics are vicious. We can see what’s going on here when we look at Anning’s party leader and his reaction, via the ABC:
Bob Katter has taken advantage of a divisive and widely condemned speech by his party’s senator Fraser Anning to extend his political battle against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party.
Both houses of Parliament have condemned Senator Anning’s speech, which advocated a return to the White Australia policy and saw him use the phrase “final solution”, associated with the Nazi Holocaust.
But Mr Katter called it a magnificent speech that he supported “a thousand per cent”.
Fraser Anning originally joined the Upper House last year as a One Nation senator after gaining only 19 primary votes, but quit on the day he entered the Senate.
One Nation leader Senator Hanson on Wednesday joined the condemnation, saying she was appalled by Senator Anning’s speech.
“I do believe that Senator Anning went too far in his speech yesterday and it’s unacceptable,” she said.
But as Senator Hanson joined politicians from across the board in criticising Senator Anning, Mr Katter defended him and said it was boosting his party’s support.
He said Senator Hanson’s speech to the Senate this morning was at odds with her previous views on race and religion.
Mr Katter said Senator Hanson had “got a lot of publicity out of it” but asked: “Did she believe it?”
“Well I don’t know, she is out there baying for our blood so I don’t think she believes it any more,” he said.
Bob Katter is ram raiding One Nation in QLD. I have no idea if Katter is a neo-Nazi, sure sounds like it, but he looks to me as much a ruthless politician prepared to wreck the public debate to advance his own party’s numbers.
The lesson for the nation is this: so long as you run mass immigration against the public consensus, and do it in such a way that it lowers living standards while pretending the opposite, anger grows in the polity. That anger is fertile ground for extreme views on immigration and it tears at the multicultural consensus. Bob Katter knows it and wants to harness the backlash.
Once the dust settles, the answer is not to lurch to the global corporatists and double down on immigration. Rather, the sensible centre needs to outright reject discriminatory view on immigration and take control of the population debate with an honest appraisal of its downsides so that it can much better manage the volume of people versus the impact on the living standards of locals.
If not the globalist corporatists will create the very radical counter-movement they purport to fight.
