by PAUL COLLITS – IF ANYONE thought that Charlie Kirk’s tragic mowing down and its electric aftermath was a transformative moment, well, we only had to wait a week or so for another; easily its match.
When Donald J trump this week addressed the UN in the Big Apple, he gave it to them in spades. In fact, his speech was a diamond. Hard and beautiful.
- Really? With the Party now run by Sussan Ley, Alex Hawke and Michael Photios?
- With a Party that cannot rub two sticks together to create a policy fire.
- A Party that doesn’t have the spine to dump net-zero or put a freeze on immigration.
Contrast Trump’s effort at the UN with Tony Abbott’s craven apology for the endless sins of omission and commission of his beloved Liberal Party.
This was at CPAC, one of those performative echo-chamber chin-wags, in Brisbane last weekend.
APOLOGISE
George Christensen saw the upside of it: “I was there. I sat in Star Casino’s giant event centre for CPAC 2025 and watched a man who once held the highest office in the land, Tony Abbott, do something that most modern politicians would never dream of: apologise.
“Tony Abbott didn’t stroll onto that stage to deliver another beige, back-slapping Liberal Party pep talk. He came to lay down the gauntlet. And, make no mistake, he did just that.
“Abbott stood before a room packed with conservatives, libertarians, patriots, and yes, plenty of disillusioned ex-Liberal voters, and he said the words we’ve all been waiting far too long to hear: ‘I’m sorry’.
“Not some shallow, PR-massaged regret. A real apology. One rooted in truth. He admitted that the Coalition had failed. That the last Liberal National government hadn’t delivered what we were promised. That the Liberals had drifted so far from their principles that it cost them everything.
“And then, he did something even more shocking.
“He asked for ‘one last chance’. Just one chance. He didn’t ask a blank cheque of support. Not a promise of loyalty until kingdom come. Only just one more opportunity for the Liberal Party to prove it hasn’t been completely hollowed out by cowards, careerists and factional warlords,” Christensen concluded.
Tony asked us for “one last chance”. Really?
With the Party now run by Sussan Ley, Alex Hawke and Michael Photios?
With a Party that cannot rub two sticks together to create a policy fire? A Party for which the simple ditching of net-zero is a step too far. Where a decade long freeze on immigration would be verboten. Simply not possible. There is a reason that the Libs’ numbers are in the lowest level of the basement.
I think not.
I don’t ever doubt Tony Abbott’s sincerity. But…
There was nothing performative about Trump. He wasn’t speaking to adoring fans. They even sabotaged his audio equipment, according to reports.
I won’t quote great swathes of the Trump magnum opus. It was broadcast on SBS, of all places.
Astonishingly, in view of the Murdochs’ visceral hatred of Trump, The Australian newspaper allowed one of its journalists, Joe Kelly, to quote considerable chunks of the speech.
One only awaits Greg Sheridan’s inevitable two bob each way effort, to provide “perspective”.
If only Tony Abbott or any Liberal had given a version of that speech. At any time since 2013. Or Kemi Badenoch in Britain.
The Donald honed in like an Exocet missile on three core issues for Western prosperity – the climate scam/hoax, the perils of mass immigration and the dangers of international unrest.
It was beyond refreshing for a world leader on the greatest international platform to speak truth to globalist power. And to use the words of the climate dissident movement. Scam. Hoax. It was almost as if Prof Ian Plimer himself was at the UN.
And Trump backs the words up with consequential actions. Calling time on NATO cruising and NATO brinkmanship. Crushing the green energy scam. And closing the borders.
Trump effects the following outcomes:
- He flips the bird to the globalist powers;
- He reminds us all of American soft power;
- He draws a line in the sand;
- He gives permission to his allies, like Meloni, Orban and Milei, to keep going;
- He gives hope to the gazillions of us who have wanted to say his words to the UN;
- He gives the shits to our common enemies, big time;
- He reminds us what we lack, certainly in Australia, and in the UK, New Zealand (alas) and Canada;
- He makes Albo look like the global mid-wit that he is;
- He has the backing of one of the all-time great cabinets – see under Rubio, Kennedy, Hegseth – so we have confidence (this time) that he will bring it home.
All good outcomes.
There was another magnificent speech this week past. The other was delivered by David Starkey to an audience arranged by the great Ezra Levant of Rebel News.
Starkey’s speech contrasts with Trump, but complements it.
Starkey took his audience through a lesson in British history, from Magna Carta, with special reference to responsible government, the common law, and the other great British gifts to the world.
Ending up with democracy, with the suffragette movement that embedded universal voting at the turn of the twentieth century.
REVOLUTION
Starkey then outlined the Tony Blair revolution from 1997 and what it has wrought on Britain and the world.
Read the two speeches together, to get the back story and the way forward. Twin master classes.
What Blair did was set up the Trump counter-revolution – by denying voters the chance to self-govern through the outsourcing of policy; the creation of the human rights legal industrial complex and the execution of replacement theory through mass immigration.
Brexit failed to do it, infamously. Thanks to the clueless goon, Boris. Trump is the last hope for Britain and for all of us.
These are the two most consequential figures of our time. Our future rests upon Trump overturning Blair.
On the evidence of the New York speech, we are still in with a chance.
America is playing the Trump card.PC
Until the Party rids itself of these self appointed factional mongrel dictators like Harwin, Hawke, Kean and Photios; there is no chance whatever that the VOTERS will ever again install the once great Liberal Party to power. After 46 years of active branch membership and totally non faction aligned; I couldn’t bring myself to renew for the 2012 year. Why? Because of the evil schemes of Photios to take over control of the Liberal Party. For the first time in 60 years of voting; I voted elsewhere at the last election purely because of my loathing of that climate change moron in a seat 50 kms from mine.
The Party is in urgent need of a serious cleanout and reform to stop this evil problem.
Well said Paul Collits. You have hit the points right on the head and fearlessly hammered them home! Keep up your great work. Cheers Melanie
Tony is too nice but little Johnnie started it. The SFLs think there are rules and the left play by them when in fact the rule the left play by is as richo said, whatever it takes to get into power.
The right in the US after the attempts on Trump and the assassination of Charlie are realising, at last, that they are dealing with evil which is what the left is.
But Tone still doesn’t get it; and neither do the rest of the SFLs. And because they don’t they continue to flutter around with no policies or future. Their job is to protect society from the left which wants it destroyed. How many examples around the world do they need to understand this. And when you are dealing with a rabid enemy you can’t vacillate: you must be strong and say what you stand for and then act on it. Look at what happened in QLD. The little weasel got elected on a tough on crime policy and he has done nothing; and he can’t even disavow net bloody zero. Hopeless.
Sir,
Perhaps Tony is finally coming to terms with the reality of the sad demise of his beloved Liberal Party, which is now in palliative decline. Whilst the likes of so called moderates and the meddling factions are in control, it will continue to stumble around in the darkness looking for the door to enlightenment, to no avail. Maybe it would be better to face the reality that the party in its present form is well and truly over.
…and the solution is?
What ideas do you have?
“…and the solution is?
What ideas do you have?”
If a doctor has spent a few days trying to resuscitate a patient who remains stone cold motherless dead and is now starting to putrefy, what do you think the “solution” would be for that?
I can tell you that the first thing you would do would be to bury the corpse…
LP have never recovered from the treasonous Turnbull & his moderate cronies backstabbing, look @ their results following, all downhill, fail to see how they are going to get us long-term conservatives back.
I never knew why Tony Abbot was dumped as PM, and still don’t. He was not perfect, but was much better than any coalition leader since then, and we know where they took right wing politics in Australia. It would be interesting if the coalition appointed Barnaby Joyce as spokesman for the coalition, even though he too is far from perfect. However, he is much more assertive than either the current Liberal or National party leaders.
Paul, George…and whoever….
I would respectfully suggest that the comment [or question], “With the Party now run by Sussan Ley, Alex Hawke and Michael Photios?” was either disingenuous, mischievous, or just divisive. There is no conservative in the Liberal party that would consider the party can exist in its current form. And I’m sure Tony Abbott was not remotely suggesting anything resembling its current form.
But I’m sure that the future for centre-right politics in Australia will not be served well by fragmentation of the conservative vote.
I’m with Tony Abbott….let’s give it one last chance….and let’s get it right [in every sense of the word ‘right!’]