WITH an ALP break-up being openly discussed, the Liberal Party risks having its own voter base ravaged by a sensible centrist Labor offshoot.
As Labor continues to be torn in two between its inner city socialist voters and regional working families, factional leader Joel Fitzgibbon has hinted the Party may need to split.
“I don’t want this to happen,” he said this week. “But I’m very fearful about how Labor will manage to juggle these two electoral bases.”
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“I just don’t know how we can reconcile being all things to people in Melbourne and another thing to people in central Queensland.”
Mr Fitzgibbon is attempting to drag the ALP back to centre ground after it lurched hard Left following former leader Julia Gillard’s carbon tax deal with The Greens.
If successful, the shadow resources minister will see the ALP sideline global warming and renewable energy policies and re-focus on job creation and family living standards.
If not, the ALP will most likely break apart, Fitzgibbon said.
Either scenario would be a blow for the Liberal Party, which has also lurched hard to the Left since Malcolm Turnbull entered the Party and then stole the prime ministership in 2015.
In fact, influential figures within the Liberal Party, particularly in NSW, have become so extreme even Greens and Labor MPs have been shocked. Not to mention its utterly baffled centre-right voter base, which is craving a family friendly, radical free Party to support.
With so many so-called “conservative” politicians obsessing over climate “emergencies” while also championing late-term abortions, LGBTQ schooling and softer bestiality laws, Fitzgibbon poses a significant threat to suburban Liberal MPs.
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These so-called “moderate” Liberals currently dominate the NSW Party and promote ultra-Left social and environmental causes.
Before Christmas, Greens MP David Shoebridge gave NSW Liberal MPs a lesson on morality after the Berejiklian government attempted to water down bestiality laws.
“We did not support the watering down of this one well established law which not only serves a moral purpose but also a protective purpose – to protect animals from abuse and misuse,” Mr Shoebridge told Parliament on November 19.
More recently, the ALP-aligned national secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union, Daniel Walton, questioned the “insanity” of expensive renewable energy, which has become an obsession among NSW Liberal MPs.
NSW Energy & Environment Minister Matt Kean has indicated his aim to accelerate the roll-out of heavily subsidised and expensive renewable energy, despite scientists now insisting renewables are more environmentally harmful than fossil fuels alone.
Unless Kean and his Liberal acolytes take a step back from such madness, they may find Fitzgibbon taking much more than just traditional ALP voters into his sensible, centrist fold.PC
Yes to think that NSW Liberal party MPs were schooled by Greens on morality to do with softening Bestiality laws is shocking!. Anyone wasting parliamentary time to soften laws on Bestiality is not “fit” for public office.
Joel the party is rotten to its core, the party had a chance to clear the deck and it didn’t. Albo, Butler, Marles, Bowen, Shorten, Bourke, Wong, Plibersek, all should of been shown the door. Time for the Pine O Clean.
Interesting to hear there is some of that old working class Australian values still
hanging in the Labor Party.
Maybe the Liberal Moderates and Labor inner cities should establish a new Purple Party Tribe.
If you listen to any QAnon their “ALPHABET SOUP” agenda for kids and little animals, has no boundaries.
If QAnon is correct it’s all about to be brought into the light, and the rats are getting off the sinking ship.
Jobs in renewable energy are illusory. Unlike mining, renewable jobs are mainly in construction and not continuous and not particularly well paid. Labor’s biggest problem is they don’t understand how to create private sector jobs. They say they love infrastructure and nothing wrong with that but those jobs are ‘government’ jobs. While ever they are high taxing they drive incentive away from the private sector and employment and wages are not going anywhere.
Chalmers who studied at the feet of Wayne Swan must understand our scepticism at his capability to be the future Treasurer. It is truly frightening to contemplate.
Joel Fitzgibbon is right, until the various wings of the party can unite, the public will be wary of them. Unfortunately, Albo, Shorten and Kristina Keneally (the main aspirants) are not suitable. Labor needs to find someone who can reconcile the party. A very difficult process.
I could see a labor freed from the loopy left attracting Morrison’s silent Australians. The Liberal Party has just as many issues as Labor, especially when we look at the National/Liberal relationship. The tripe that is jobs through renewable energy is a fallacy that is playing out in S.A. Unemployment is some of the highest in the country. As they race towards 100% intermittent power company’s are deserting the state and taking the work with them. I don’t see any company choosing to move to S.A. Because of their woke stance on power.
Climate change, windmills and solar panels will split both Labour and the LNP. the way forward is for the sensible, practical people from the right of both political parties get together and fix the problem. Why would we bother trying to replace coal fired electricity generation which works so well and the rest of the world is using and expanding, with wind and solar which doesnt work. Please look at NEM Fuel mix. Wind and solar generate insignificant electricity. The wind,solar push is just so dumb that if we keep going in that direction we deserve every bit of poverty, hardship and shortages of the result.