The mainstream media keep banging on about how the Coalition lost because they aren’t left enough. That is absolute nonsense. The Liberals facilitated the fracturing of the conservative vote by being Labor-lite. Every conservative knows this is true. Conservatives don’t want the Liberal Party to go left – they want the Liberal Party to be conservative.
Even NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman wants to drag the Liberals further to the left and to introduce gender quotas. We already have socialist parties. Conservatives want a conservative party, and they don’t care what woke wets think is best. But the only way Angus Taylor and Dan Tehan can save the Liberals is if they stand up to the Woke rot and represent conservatives with no excuses.
The number of Liberals bleeding to the minor conservative parties is not something you’ll read about in the papers. Anecdotally, it is an exodus that will deplete the Liberal’s volunteer base. For too long, the wets have had their day in the sun only to lead conservatives to an eclipse.
It is time the Liberal Party became a conservative party.
Taylor and Tehan can bring the Liberals back from the brink. To do so, they need to refocus on the conservative principles of a market-based economy, lifting not leaning, merit not identity politics, national security not kowtowing, and being tough on crime and defending social cohesion.
With the Greens on the way out, it is time the Liberals made the iron hot by striking.
The Liberals need to stop reacting to criticism from the Wokerati.
When they are criticised for not having gender quotas, Taylor and Tehan need to stand up for meritocracy.
When they are criticised for being Trump-like, they need to embrace our major ally with no excuses.
When they are accused of being ‘unkind’, they need to stand up and say they are strong not weak, and appeasement is like socialism. It never works and history proves it over and over again.
Labor didn’t win this election. The Liberals lost.
Albo pretends he is a ‘conviction politician’. (It’s like charisma, you don’t call yourself a conviction politician, your actions prove you are, and others give you the moniker.)
Taylor and Tehan need to be conviction politicians.
Angus Taylor is now the most senior Liberal. He increased his margin despite changes to his electorate that many thought would be detrimental.
Taylor is a hard worker, a businessman, and he understands what conservative Australians want. He needs to take this opportunity and live out Liberal values without excuses. Dan Tehan is a good man, and he will be a strong deputy for Taylor.
The time for the Liberals to live out of fear of rejection is well past. If the Liberal Party can’t support Angus Taylor, then I see no reason why conservatives should bother to support the Liberal Party. There is nobody else who can do the job.
No excuses.
Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is The Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. All opinions in this article are the author’s own.