THE Coalition can be grateful to would-be wrecker Malcolm Turnbull for a handsome Hunter by-election win last weekend.
According to those on the ground, many voters who professed loathing for him determined to stick with the NSW government despite all its current travails.
- Turnbull's judgement call to support a green candidate certainly proved comical.
- Australia cannot compete in the world's market place without cheap base load power.
- Problematically, green religion trumps reason in the mind of Malcolm Turnbull.
In fairness, the former prime minister’s judgement call to support an independent green-type candidate in a coal electorate certainly provided comic relief.
Mr Turnbull may well become the gift that keeps on giving, as his apparent hatred of his former Party, and his motivation to constantly campaign against it, seems to sway undecided voters away from Labor.
For these reasons, conservatives have begun to wish him well in his endeavours.
AMUSEMENT
But given he presided over the loss of 14 seats in the 2016 federal election, Mr Turnbull does have some ground to recover, notwithstanding last weekend’s contribution.
His amusement factor aside, however, good government is best facilitated by good opposition, which Labor can never be whilst it continues to religiously oppose functional base load energy.
Neither can the Coalition deliver energy-led prosperity whilst it carries the likes of NSW Energy & Environment Minister Matt Kean and other green-type dead weight in its saddlebags.
Australia cannot compete in the world’s market place without cheap base load electricity for industry. So the choice is whether to continue to fund hospitals, health, social services and education, or to accept a lower standard of living.
Certainly solar and better batteries could take many homes off the grid, enabling the resultant cost savings to be better used in the economy.
But businesses and industry struggle when they experience surging power prices during the day, which can only be ameliorated by cheap, reliable base load, as wind is very expensive and unreliable and pumped hydro can’t compete in a normalised market.
ALARMISTS
The only current alternatives are nuclear, coal and gas, as cheap hydrogen is as yet many years away.
Those climate change proponents who argue that the world must curtail emissions should surely be satisfied with newer nuclear forms, which are safe, produce no emissions at all and have powered France’s 67 million population for many years.
Alternately, new coal fired power stations basically emit steam and CO2, which can now be captured and sold for agriculture. So these new advances have voided the emissions arguments expressed by alarmists, and provide the cheapest power of all.
Problematically, religion trumps reason, just as fanatical Islam followers are fixated about slaying the infidel.
The CO2 climate change believers, when espousing their cause, refuse to debate the likes of Ian Plimer because they can’t win.
They say that the science is settled, but the climate has always changed. Contrarily, we know that we face environmental and pollution problems which we can see and experience, in which the emissions alarmists are seemingly disinterested.
The solution to the visible pollution problem is to become a wealthier country, so that we can afford to remediate these issues.
There are also too many people in the world, and when we export our coal to India we help to take 300 million people away from both poverty and the massive pollution occasioned by their wood fires. When they become wealthier they will then have less children – so reducing the environmental strain.
Neither Party can engage the voter without purporting common sense and becoming genuinely interested in the welfare of its constituents, instead of indulging in the perks of office and accompanying green fantasy.PC
M Turnbull’s family is touted by SBS to be included in the next set of ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ series. Turnbull’s comment in the shorts while exploring his ancestry is ” It’s just like an Agatha Christie novel.” When reflecting on the sort of characters who populate Agatha Christie novels, could you believe that of the M Turnbulls?? Cheers Melanie
You would expect Gladys to be non-commital about how she thinks about Malcolm Turnbull. When asked this question she would not have had the opportunity to ask her closet Green puppet masters Harwin or Kean how she thinks and what she should say. She would be especially careful not to say anything negative about Mr Turnbull, a fellow closet Green.
Unfortunately Malcolm is totally irrelevant, but I don’t think it has sunk in yet. I think he is trying his hardest to destroy the party that once endorsed him as their leader, but they soon realised he wasn’t as good as he thought he was.