LABOR is tearing itself apart as its extreme climate agenda continues to sideline working families.
Party leader Anthony Albanese, who only last month attempted to extract himself from a decade of climate wars, backflipped again this week and publicly rebuked ALP MPs representing mining communities.
They’re “just wrong”, Mr Albanese said in response to internal Party comments that Labor’s “fundamentalist position” on climate was a barrier to electoral success.
CARBON TAX
Labor has lost every federal election since 2010 when Julia Gillard signed a coalition deal with The Greens Party resulting in her introduction of a carbon tax.
“Labor’s Environmental Action Network is made of people who are committed to environmental action,” Mr Albanese said yesterday.
“The Labor Party is the Party that should be very proud and are proud of everything from the Daintree being saved, the Franklin being saved and concern around climate change…,” he said.
It appears Mr Albanese has begun appropriating Greens Party history in place of Labor’s own. He neglected to mention it was future Greens leaders and supporters such as Bob Brown, and not traditional Labor people, who had chained themselves to bulldozers and trees during these 1980s environmental protests.
BACKTRACK
Labor’s whole-hearted embrace of environmentalism came much, much later in the form of a tactical pivot in 2010 to keep the Party in government after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard botched her re-election campaign.
By formalising a coalition deal with The Greens she was forced to backtrack on her pledge not to introduce a carbon tax.
Since then, Labor has been eaten by its emboldened environmental wing – which is now increasingly blamed for three federal election losses, with a fourth looking ever more likely.
Labor’s shadow minister for resources Mr Joel Fitzgibbon, who represents the NSW mining electorate of Hunter, has described Labor’s “fundamentalist position” on climate as a barrier to success.
He said it was time to put “labour back into the Labor Party”.
A Labor MP and Fitzgibbon ally said they were fighting for the “soul of the Labor Party”.
BIZARRE
“Joel is trying to stand up for people who work in traditional industries but it is more than that – it is about representing the traditional working Australian, who is aspirational.”
In response, Labor’s environmental wing has labelled Fitzgibbon as a “conspiracist”, “wrong”, “deluded” and “bizarre”.
As Kevin Rudd discovered some years earlier: only complete capitulation will appease climate extremists.
Shortly before being dragged kicking and screaming from office in 2010, Rudd learned that compromise was not a word in the climate change vocabulary.
Albanese appears to have learned this lesson as well. His response has been to gift the “soul” of the Labor Party to its environmental wing without so much as an afterthought for working families.PC
No matter how hard Albo tries to come back to the sensible centre, you can’t remove the socialist policy from socialist politician. Let them keep self-destructing. Australian’s need to see for themselves.
Wake up Albo!
Whether Green Party voters have surreptitiously infiltrated your party as members or MPs is moot.
What’s bleedingly obvious to Blind Frederick is the once great Working Man’s Party has been infused with such a radical environmentalist ideology that The Party for Labourers has become a party for loonies, albeit with some outstanding exceptions like the Member for Hunter.
It’s critical to Australian democracy that there are two electable centrist parties one leaning slightly left the other slightly right.
At the moment we only have one.
WAKE UP, ALBO!
Go for the throat Albo! Drive Fitzgibbon and his mates out of the ALP. Scott and his LNP mates will wipe the floor with you again.
Joel is on the money not Albo!