by PAUL COLLITS – OBSERVERS of political developments in both Britain and Australia will, right about now, see much overlap.
One area of apparent difference is the more clearly articulated Christian focus of the British insurgency movement. But first, some context.
- If current policies are allowed to continue, we might well become one nation under Allah. With Sharia law baked in.
- What will our churches and their spokesmen say then?
- Will they look back in horror on the current period in which they’ve been siding with mainstream politics and woke outcomes?
In both countries there is a deeply unpopular political class, as represented by the two legacy branches of the UniParty.
This is seeing a rise in insurgent Parties, growing recognition by the punters of the system-failure shared by both polities as well as economic stagnation driven by an ideological (religious) commitment to climate catastrophism.
MASS IMMIGRATION
Both the UK and Australia share first order problems like mass immigration, Muslim power plays that are getting way out of control, rampant authoritarianism, technocracy in London and Canberra, online tyranny and top-down woke sneering at the populace.
And, despite massively unfit-for-purpose electoral systems in each country, the insurgent Parties are smashing through the glass ceilings – at least in the polls. It is a great start.
Recent events in each country suggest game-changing breakthroughs. The UK local council elections may well have ended a premiership, though Keir Starmer is fighting on.
Australia’s Farrer by-election smashed the Liberals and Nationals and did not deliver comfort for the greenie candidate.
One Nation has emerged from grievance status to a serious Party that has to get its ground game skates on, nationally.
One Nation, according to a recent poll, now leads Labor. The Liberal-led Coalition is way back in the weeds.
Straight after the Federal Budget, One Nation had more primary support (32%) than the ALP’s 28.5 per cent – and almost double the support of the Coalition (16.5%) and The Greens (11.5%), according to a Roy Morgan Snap SMS Poll.
This is huge. A potential electoral revolution is now suddenly in play. (The latest Newspoll has Labor still leading by about 30 per cent to 27 per cent. The Coalition is still on an anemic 20 per cent.
Then two more significant things happened. London had its latest Unite the Kingdom rally.
Despite the legacy media’s narratives, there was plenty of wow factor on the streets of central London – the numbers, the behaviour of the crowds and the intent.
The hated, farcical British PM had his own take.
He blamed the “far Right”. He excluded overseas speakers from entering the UK. He chastised his own native Britons as racists and extremists.
He has no clue. Far worse, he has no care. He takes his orders from beyond the English Channel.
The buffoon is hated even by his own Party, who, at the time of writing, simply don’t know how to get rid of him.
And then Australia had its tax-grab budget.
This budget has been described by Sky News’ James Morrow as “Leninist”. It is.
The lying Albo’s broken promises on capital gains tax (to take just one example) are laying the foundation for a massive popular revolt in Australia.
KICKING OUT
Londoners are taking to the streets, in their hundreds of thousands (at least). They and their countrymen are kicking out mainstream Parties in elections and by-elections, wherever and whenever they can.
They are forming insurgent Parties and broader movements with the aim of smashing the existing system of Party control. They are (probably) ending premierships. They are jumping over official oppositions.
They are tuning-in in growing numbers to online right podcasts. They are engaging in ostentatious displays of patriotism.
To date, Australians have not been nearly as angry – until last week. Now they are.
We know they are because of Farrer. And we suspect that will only grow because of the budget. And not just the budget’s contents, but what it means for trust in the political class.
There is an additional focus within the British insurgency that is Christian, or Christian adjacent.
More and more pundits, whether or not they are practising Christians, are emphasising the Christian bit of the existential threat to “the West”. There are echoes in Australia, but they are, again, subdued.
Here is the former Anglican Bishop and now baptised Catholic, Gavin Ashenden, to take one British example: “Gavin Ashenden, a former chaplain to the late Elizabeth II who converted to Catholicism, is a vocal critic of mass immigration and current border policies.
“He argues that unchecked immigration threatens British cultural identity, deepens societal fragmentation and is driven by liberal governing classes aiming to fundamentally alter traditional Western societies.”
Then there is Bishop Ceirion Dewar. He has used his voice to great effect, pitting Christian values against the globalist, Muslim-embracing establishment. Including the King himself. He even led a UTK (Unite the Kingdom) rally in prayer.
Rita Panahi of Sky News Australia has noticed the “Christian symbolism” that is apparent across the British protest movement.
So, it isn’t just a couple of antsy outliers.
Britain is exhorted by the insurgency movement to remain, or become again, one nation under God. To be precise, the Christian God.
Unfortunately, Britains mainstream churches are clearly against what they term “religious nationalism”.
In Australia, there is far less Christian symbolism. And there is, if anything, even stronger and more pointed Church condemnation. Just take one example.
It concerns the recent treatment by a key organ of the Catholic Church of a series of March for Australia rallies.
The March for Australia folks decided to push back against the direction of ideological travel approved by the establishment, with a specific focus on Australian identity and mass migration.
For this, they were smeared by Sydney’s Catholic Church masthead, The Catholic Weekly, in the name of warm and fuzzy multiculturalism.
Good Lord! That we should want to preserve our culture in the face of daily attacks on it, many of which are sanctioned by a political class with which the Church hierarchy seems especially (and oddly) comfortable.
Australia’s mainstream churches seem to be much more comfortable with legacy political Parties and their leaders, hence the continued cosying up of prelates with the current political class.
COMFORTABLE
Anthony Albanese (for example) has described Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher as his “closest spiritual adviser”. They certainly look comfortable in each other’s company.
One Nation under God? Well, Pauline Hanson doesn’t publicly claim to be a Christian but her voting record suggests broad sympathy, as do her recent statements about Australia being a Christian country.
It might well turn out to be the case that official Australian Christianity might be backing the wrong horse.
If current policies are allowed to continue, we might well become one nation under Allah. With Sharia law baked in.
What will our churches and their spokesmen say then? Will they look back on the current period in which they have been siding with mainstream politics and woke outcomes, and cringe?
The church hierarchies in both Britain and Australia continue to prioritise being nice to everyone and maintaining head-in-the-sand political correctness over confronting what sharp minds and observant Christians are seeing right before their eyes – an existential threat to our tolerant, Christian way of life.
They are doing their nations a grave disservice, and their attitudes are dangerous.PC
The 2025 Federal election and One Nation after the election had only four (4) Senators and not even one House of Representatives MP.
Later elected again as a National Party MP (former National’s Leader and Deputy Prime Minister twice) Barnaby Joyce changed over to One Nation. Their first elected House of Representatives MP was elected at the Farrer by election under circumstances involving long term Liberal MP Ley resigning from Parliament after losing the Liberal leadership she held for less than a year and after dropping policies the Coalition took to the 2025 election angering the National Party partner and caused a temporary split. A situation that Farrer voters were for good reasons angry about.
To form government requires a minimum of 76 electorate seats and preferably more, say 80 seats, to provide a margin for unforeseen circumstances such as an MP away from Parliament unable to vote. One Nation right now have only 6 members.
And how could they cover all the portfolios that shadow opposition ministers cover? Even the top positions of Prime Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Finance? And if as the polls are indicating One Nation gained many new elected members and became the opposition party what experience would the shadow ministers have to deal with government matters? Would, as was the situation in QLD State years ago when Pauline Hanson One Nation gained several electorate seats it lasted only a few years, a Federal One Nation opposition implode?
Can we put up with more terms of Labor in government and with a weak inexperienced opposition?
Morgan special poll immediately after the Budget Speech and before Budget Reply;
On a two-party preferred basis straight after the Federal Budget ALP 51% cf. One Nation 49% is ‘too close to call’ although the ALP 55% has a clear lead over the L-NP Coalition 45%.
If a Federal Election were held now the result would be too close to call with a likely hung Parliament with a great deal of uncertainty about the results in many electorates. The preference decisions of voters will be more important than ever in determining the result of the Federal Election due by 2028.
Majority of Australians (59%) disapprove of the job Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is doing