Earlier this week, I argued that Trump Derangement Syndrome is no basis for sustained Labor rule.
Alas, I spoke too soon, because the Coalition, bent of self-destruction, has delivered said basis
Via Wokey.
An anonymous federal Liberal MP who opposed Sussan Ley as party leader when she stood for the role in May told The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday it would be “electoral suicide” to try to challenge her position at this juncture.
“No-one is close to talking about doing that,” the person said. “[Leadership rival Angus Taylor]’s inner sanctum believes she needs to fail on her terms for him to ever come back. She’ll be given time.”
Hardly a ringing endorsement or a sincere attempt at forging unity — but at least it was a slightly more serious effort at political strategy than that displayed by the Liberals’ coalition partner.In an interview in today’s The Australian,
National MPs and former leadership rivals Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack have for some reason decided to announce they are friends and allies again; to reveal that McCormack has backflipped on net zero and now supports Joyce’s planned private member’s bill to repeal it; and to unload on their own party leader, David Littleproud.
The last thing the Coalition needs is to get lost in another climate war.
It has just been destroyed at the ballot box for bringing nuclear power to the national table.
Whether you agree with net zero or not, it is a proven political fact that defying it is a non-starter. If the Coalition were to scrap net zero or split over it, then the kind of scenario that saw Labor struggle in the wilderness for three decades during the Cold War would raise its ugly head for the LNP.
From 1949, the LNP ruled for 22 years and was only briefly interrupted before enjoying another nine years.
There have been periods when Australia has had one dominant party for decades.
Labor then ruled for fourteen years. Then the LNP for another fourteen.
So, it is not the dominance of a particular party that is the issue. It is their policies over the term that matter. Labor was riven by the DLP for two decades after it split from the party to fight trade union radicalism.
Labor has a losing platform today in its combination of falling living standards, high taxes, mass immigration, expensive energy, perpetual housing crisis, disabled boom, China groveling, and wokeness.
However, the LNP appears exhausted by the alternative of energy wars, cultural counter-reformation, mass immigration, perpetual housing crises, and worker hostility.
Add Donald Trump, and it is unelectable as we enter Cold War 2.0.
What is most disturbing about this, other than Labor’s terrible policies, is the role of China.
The USSR never had the same sway over Australia as China does. With Labor as the CCP patsy, feeding in record levels of ethnic Chinese immigration, by the time the LNP gets another look in, we may have a dozen federal seats beholden to CCP coercion.
It will be the only voting bloc that matters.
