I’m putting The Greens last

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My natural party is unelectable:

Greens leader Adam Bandt has told pro-Palestine protesters at a Melbourne rally where police used pepper spray that the major parties have been “slandering this movement”, after his party was accused of encouraging violent protests last week.

He also repeated his call for Australia to expel Israel’s ambassador, challenging the Albanese government to end its “inaction” against Israel over the civilian casualties of the war against Hamas.

I will not comment on the Levantine conflict. There are good and bad people on both sides, and it is simply not relevant.

As for The Greens, they are insane. Their policy positions make no sense:

  • Mass immigration mania that destroys the environment and misses net-zero targets.
  • The worst ‘war on youth’ party in the parliament.
  • Anti-gas positions that guarantee coal power for longer.
  • Socialist unsolutions to every problem, usually of their own making.
  • No conception of Australia as a nation-state nor idea about the national interest.
  • Obsession with the marginal, minority, and other irrelevancies.
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The Greens are not an environmental party so much as they are a lunatic asylum of absolutist hypocrites.

The political result of their open-borders hypocrisy is coming to a polling booth near you:

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suffered massive defeats in the European Parliament elections Sunday, as far-right parties made gains that could sway the bloc to take a harder line on migration and upset ambitious actions to protect the climate.

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Extremism always breeds its opposite.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.