We’ve been saying it for months, and now the iMSM has finally caught on:
With the referendum only weeks away, the government is stranded. Its campaign for the Voice has been confused and weak. And as that lame effort, with all its diffuse messaging, has proceeded, the government has also gradually been losing the confidence of a large swag of voters on its handling of living costs.
It’s hard to believe that the two aren’t linked. There was always a good chance that some voters would punish the government if they perceived that it was not out there, front and centre every day, talking up its efforts to reduce their kitchen table problems.
…It’s reasonable to conclude that some might not want to see the new government directing too much energy away from what ails and stresses them personally.
The great difficulty for the Labor Party for a long time, going back to the 1990s at least, has been voter unwillingness to believe in its capacity to manage the economy. But in January, Resolve found Labor ahead of the Liberals as the better economic manager 37 per cent to 29.
In the latest poll taken two weeks ago, the Liberals now lead 36 per cent to 30. On keeping the cost of living low, in January Labor was ahead 39 to 21. Now, it’s just behind the Liberals, 27 to 28. When those surveyed were asked to nominate the best party to look after them and their household in January, 41 per cent chose Labor and 22 per cent opted for the Liberals. Now, Labor leads by a wafer – 32 to 30.
…Perhaps the Voice proposal would not have been subject to such a rough go if the prime minister had chosen to run the campaign at a less economically stressful time. That might have been better for our First Nations people and the government.
Exactly right. Abandon people and they will hate you for it. It killed ScoMo when he went to Hawaii mid-bushfires. Now it is killing Albo.
It is actually worse than Nine makes out.
Albo’s blundering has triggered large swathes of the inflation shock via crawling to corporate interests, especially in energy, and out of control mass immigration.
These can be seen to be part and parcel with Albo’s fake left ideology (some might say “woke”). So a protest vote against Voice is a protest vote against all of it.
Albo’s entire platform of trying to be the “natural party of government”, that is, behave like a progressive LNP, has turned the polity against him.
It is the opposite of what he promised in opposition. Nor it is why the polity elects Labor.
Voice could have gotten up under an honest and economically sensible government.
And now, as it crashes, and the fake left goes feral, Albo will crash with it.
