by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal National Coalition is on the brink of extinction under Angus Taylor as a new opinion poll suggests losses of up to 30 MPs.
According to the latest News24/YouGov Pulse poll, the Coalition captured just 18 per cent of the primary vote, suggesting it may win fewer than 11 seats – down from 41.
- Yet, they have thrown the kitchen sink at those who support populism.
- Hilariously, none of it has worked!
- These old strategies are now regarded as a big yawn, given that so much is now at stake.
Extinction? No wonder they are soiling themselves.
The establishment is on the run at both ends of the world. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France continues on a path towards victory at next year’s Presidential election. Spain is in uproar following the Moroccan invasion of Ceuta.
SCORED
The AfD in Germany has just scored a major victory in a State election in the former communist east.
They may fall short of an absolute parliamentary majority, but they kicked the arses of all the other Parties, including the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Party of Germany’s “centre Right” establishment.
Political pundits are suggesting the CDU may never win another election. They could be referring to the Australian Liberals.
Things aren’t so rosy, however, for the populist Parties in the UK at the moment.
For a range of reasons, and despite the fact that Britain seems to be on the brink of a hot civil war in the face of a foreign invasion, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK seems to have stalled.
Declined, even, according to the latest polls. The Tories are ahead of Reform.
Despite this, most of the punditocracy seems of the view that that there is a populist march across the West. Much of the horror of the establishment.
Which leads us to the strategies and tactics used by the same establishment, across several nations, to bring down the populist insurgents.
Variously, these have included:
- Making opposition to the direction of travel actually illegal, eg banning Parties;
- Trumped up charges against insurgent leaders;
- Assassination attempts and death threats;
- Activation of youth on the streets;
- Character assassination of “far Right”, “divisive”, “anti-democratic”, “extremist” leaders and Parties;
- Claims that insurgent Parties “have no policies”;
- Contradictory claims that their policies will destroy democracy;
- Activist journalism and gotcha interviews; and, now,
- Offence archaeology (aka digging for dirt).
The establishment and their fellow travellers have thrown the kitchen sink at those who support populism. It has been a team effort. All hands to the pump. They cannot have the people revolting.
Hilariously, none of it has worked! The reverse march through the democratic institutions continues apace.
Perhaps the old strategies are now regarded as a big yawn, given that so much is now at stake.
Yet, offence archaeology has raised its head once more. In Australia, the latest victim is the Victorian One Nation leader, Warren Pickering.
Quite the colourful past, has Warren. Or, perhaps, on reflection, a pretty normal one.
He has admitted drug use, drink driving and the rest. He has issues with his ex-wife, who seems to have made her own Faustian bargain with the media.
Those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
How many of those going after Pickering were at the front lines calling out senior Labor ministers who are married to convicted drug dealers (Plibersek), or Labor leaders accused of rape (Shorten), or Victorian Premiers who all but killed innocent cyclists in the dark of night (Andrews)?
All pretty seedy.
Warren didn’t rape anyone, as far as I know. He didn’t deal heroine. He didn’t run over cyclists.
I trust that Plibersek will be in the forefront of those chanting “second chances”. We all have our pasts.
The establishment thinks that this crap still works. They seem not to have noticed that all the old rules of politics have been thrown out the window.
The UniParty’s mortal sins are now baked into the minds of 2020s voters. I suspect that the great unwashed and the deplorables among us could not give a rat’s about Warren’s past or private sins.
SINS
Nor have we forgotten the sins of the establishment. COVID tyranny, anyone? Destroying the Australian economy? Crushing personal freedom? Selling out our national interests to China and globalist rulers?
We haven’t forgotten.
There is an old Catholic conversation about “bad popes”. There are those who fathered children, but did absolutely no harm to the faithful.
And there are those who have led exemplary personal lives but who are existential threats to the Church through their theological wickedness.
Public corruption beats private corruption, hands down.
Me? I would rather have a personal sinner who is righteously focused, single-mindedly, on resolving our existential political crises. Of which there are plenty.
Let us hope that offence archaeology has had its day.
I just hope Warren Pickering doesn’t give in to the shabby turds who are out to get him.
There is far too much at stake.PC
