by DAVID FLINT – DOES Scott Morrison plan to lose this year’s federal election?
Alienating Coalition rank-and-file by his surrender on net-zero emissions will result in many parking their first preferences with newer Parties supporting older values, just as Menzies did.
- Morrison has decided on an early return to mass immigration.
- He has alienated Coalition rank-and-file by his surrender on net-zero emissions.
- Dissatisfied electors must now go to the minor Parties to find alternatives.
Now Morrison has put at risk not only keeping their preferences. He also risks losing the votes of those fed up with the congestion and cost of living in our overcrowded capitals.
Already the bottom 40 per cent of income earners are priced out of the Sydney and Hobart markets.
INFLATION
This will worsen when, despite Reserve Bank predictions, interest rates rise because of inflation created by the mainstream media’s favourite presidential candidate, Joe Biden.
This is because Morrison decided on an early return to mass immigration which, while ratcheting up statistically attractive but irrelevant total GDP, lowers average GDP and holds down wages.
And because governments since Hawke refuse to harvest water, development has stalled in the regions with the result that most migrants must settle in the overcrowded capitals.
Morrison assumed Labor would go along quietly on this. But according to (and perhaps because of) James Campbell’s interrogation in The Sunday Telegraph, Labor has decided to make immigration an election issue.
With the United Australia Party rising spectacularly according to a Sydney western suburbs poll, and led by a principled leader, Craig Kelly, the result will be harder to pick than in 2019.
Before that election, this column presented detailed reasons why despite the polls the Coalition would win.
As Australians desert the major Parties, polling will be even more difficult.
Almost without noticing, Australia has passed through a coup by career politicians from the major Parties.
This has swept aside the principal safeguards in the constitutional system bequeathed to us by the British and which Australians have enjoyed for over one and a half centuries.
Subordinate legislation, the favoured tool of authoritarians, is today subject neither to audit by the governor or governor-general-in-council nor the scrutiny and the disallowing power of each house of parliament.
CAREER
This is no less than a fundamental attack by career politicians on both good government and our fundamental freedoms.
This reflects an increasing phenomenon, that as the major Parties become increasingly dominated by career politicians chosen by cabals of powerbrokers, they increasingly resemble one another.
Take global warming. Few voters can see anything to distinguish them.
Dissatisfied electors must go to the minor Parties to find alternatives.
This means that net-zero emissions cannot be a real election issue, at least between the major parties.
Voters are increasingly realising that most politicians are hypocrites with CO2 footprints many times theirs.
Worse, once they realise that net-zero is neither costless nor job-producing but will impoverish them, they will punish the major Parties.
Since the major Parties have conspired in this coup, demonstrated by that monstrosity, the National Cabinet, a return to constitutional government can only be expected when career politicians are replaced by genuine representatives.
That is what the new emerging Parties are offering.
The commentariat view has been to attack the Coalition for allowing representatives to cross the floor, suggesting this is a “bad look” and a sign of weakness inviting electoral defeat.
It is in fact an indication of strength. It should be encouraged. It is disappointing that political commentators would decry something which is still acceptable at Westminster.
It shows that floor-crossers are acting as Burke said they should, according to their judgement.
They and the emerging Parties reflecting traditional Australian values are in the ascendant.
DESPERATE
The desperate need to restore our ancient constitutional system of government was the principal theme of a recent conference of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, Australia’s oldest and largest constitutional monarchist organisation.
ACM operates under a broad-church Charter written by Michael Kirby and a motto to preserve, to protect and to defend the constitutional system, the role of the Australian Crown in it, and the Flag.
Named by Tony Abbott as the constitution’s “fiercest defenders”, ACM has two characteristics; it is consistent and it is serious.
Thus it has worked out that the Australian Republican Movement’s failed promise to release last year their model (kept secret for 22 years) indicates that the Real Republicans, endowed with a fortune from former Lord Mayor Clem Jones, aren’t interested in the FitzSimons compromise: an elected president stripped of the reserve powers.
On the smell of an oily rag, opposed by the media and most politicians, but with close to 60,000 supporters in the field and pop-up HQs in every capital, ACM led the republic referendum “No” case, winning nationally, in every State and 72 per cent of electorates.
The organisation has the track record of how to run a winning campaign – and is ready to do so again.
Those on the lead panel included the nation’s leading broadcaster, Alan Jones, former PM Tony Abbott, functioning from quarantine, as well as a former senior judge, one of the nation’s most distinguished, Ken Handley QC.
Handley is so well respected he was asked to serve on four courts in other Commonwealth countries.
He wrote a careful and balanced opinion on the principal theme which is posted to norepublic.com.au.
He also heads ACM’s team of international and constitutional law as well as viceregal experts on the Head of State question.
CRUCIAL
This is crucial because, as one of ACM’s two Young Ambassadors Daniel Lahood and Will Jefferies demonstrated at the conference, adding the implication to a polling or referendum question that we do not already have an Australian as Head of State improperly boosts the “Yes” vote by up to eight per cent.
In fact, every government, Coalition or Labor, informs every relevant foreign government that the Governor-General is Head of State.
The final member of the panel was Peter King, a very distinguished barrister and expert in the field of the way the pandemic laws were adopted as subordinate legislation.PC
So sad but the writing was on the wall when they let Turnbull in and then disgracefully dismissed Tony Abbott. If we vote out the Morrison government it will be at the expense of losing Peter Dutton and I feel that we are going to need him more than any other minister in any party!
Christine,
That is true. Dutton is a star. As is I think Craig Kelly
Thank-you Prof Flint for backing your words with even more powerful actions. Very few Australians have been as impactful as you. I think it’s fair to say you have inspired the next generation of pro-Aussies. God bless.
Justin, thank you too for your support
OK so you want to vote for one of the minor parties which more practically supports “Liberal” policies. If your preferred candidate does well and can garner enough preferences from other like minded minor parties, you have won. But what if he does not?
You are then limited to the Greens, the ALP, and the Liberal or National candidates for your next available preferences. I would suggest that with your dislike of the way the
Liberal Party is going, you would automatically rule out the Greens, and the ALP is just the disaster that the Liberal Party appears to be heading for. Why support a party that exemplifies all that you dislike? Best after giving your preferences to minor parties that are in accordance with your views, you should then allot your preferences to Liberal (or National) and then ALP and Greens last.
Remember, your vote goes only where you want it to go.
Dudley,
Sound advice for conservatives unhappy with the LNP, especially with the way the ALP has been taken over by the left elites.
It would however be a mistake for the LNP elites to continue to take the base for granted.
Some are extremely angry with what they see happening.
We haven’t left him because of Net Zero. We’ve left him because he has allowed the states to take away our freedom and the democracy of this free country. He has been missing for two years. He is gutless and incompetent. I’ve been a liberal voter for 35 years. It stops now. I will never vote for a liberal government again. I will be a swinging voter but only for minor freedoms parties like UAP On IMOP GAP and Liberal Democrats. These parties have done some great work. Craig Kelly is a work horse and I admire his tenacity. Liberal and labor will be which ever one will hold a minority government and it will be the minors that run the House of Dems and hopefully the senate. Then if this goes well at the following election liberal and labor will become minor parties and have no real place in our government. I can’t wait to see it happen??????
Suzi,
I think you are right. The solution is for the smaller new and principled parties to make a mark. On that the early UAP polling is interesting.
Professor, we are so much on board. Have you considered running for office?
This has to be a revolution for the freedom of Australia against the tyrrany of those in charge that have sold us all out! And it must be a complete route or will fail with support for the alternatives we will all select from UAP, ON, LDP, AP, GAP, DLP and those who wish like the Professor David Flint want a free and managed by the people, not Beurocrats and Public servants! NOW is the TIME. Talk to your families, friends and neighbours prime them all for the attack on the crooks and criminals in Office now!
John,
I think you make a good point. We all have a circle whom we can talk to telling things they would never hear about.
Thank you David, as you correctly point out yet again we are being cheated out of our country and its prrincipal right of governance by the people, and yet the invasion (orchestrated by LNP, Labor and Green of unprincipalled socialists) uncontrolled migration from countries that are expecting the Government to cover their costs financially and health wise while breeding uncontrollably at Tax payers expense is to break the spirit and soul of our country! While the complicit UN looks on applauding 🙁 And the Corporations take all the wealth, leaving us defenceless and broke!
John,
You’re right. Only if we stand up can we change things. The ruling parties need a jolt.
The headline: ” Does Morrison want to lose?”
Answer: I hope so!
Brett, amusing comment. I saw a story in the Herald predicting a cease fire on global warming between the Coalition and the ALP. We need an alternative.
“Does Morrison Want to Lose?”
LOL; Morrison is nothing but a boof-head – it’s not a question of what he wants; it’s a question of what he *is*, and it just so happens that he is a total loser, and always has been.
He wouldn’t be able to run a corner store, let alone a country, and, when he finally gets shown the door, he will be consigned to his rightful place as a rapidly-fading footnote in our political history.
Morrie,
He suffers from being a career politician. He has no real life experience. And it shows.
Agreed. The nutjob public service now runs this nation. Our elected representatives have fallen inline and have betrayed us.
Justin,
Yes, and they got rid of the old independent professional public service. They politicized it , surrounded themselves with teams of career politician apprentices and went out for gold-plated advice from big accountancy firms, too often modelling which is always wrong.
AND most of the public service hail from the Left, so have no real desire to see the Coalition succeed.
L/NP supporter for over 20 years. The coalition has nothing electorally whatsoever to maintain my continued support. Australia has become a covid dictatorship without proper checks and balance provided by the joint party room, federal cabinet, fully participated parliamentary debates, the committee system, including calls for written submissions from the general public, upper house inquiries and debates, disallowance motions, executive council consultations. It’s over! Our democracy has been hijacked by public servants and covid fanatics. It may never be restored unless we all place ALP, Greens, L/NP last. That’s what I will do in the event of an election. There’s rising political movements. ONP/UAP & LDP. We have options
Brett, You said it. We have options indeed.