by PAUL COLLITS – THE most common question asked by those who lament our continuing national downfall is – “how did we get here?”
By “here”, they mean rule by a lethal combination of globalist elites and hordes of immigrants who are gradually taking over the show.
- Why are the decision-makers in Canberra strangling property investment by Australians?
- It smells like two-tier taxation.
- Your Government truly is your enemy.
Many immigrants, by the way, are wedded to mono-culturalism – their own.
The late Sir Roger Scruton, writing in 2017, identified a key turning point for Britain in its then accelerating tracking to terminal decline.
THREAT
He viewed the unrestricted allowance for foreigners to own British real estate as a threat to national sovereignty, social trust and local communities.
He fiercely criticised the conversion of London properties into investment vehicles for wealthy foreigners.
Scruton wrote about this and much more in his book, Where We Are: The State of Britain Now.
It is a great book with an unbelievably underwhelming title.
On page 157 he wrote: “The investment of foreign capital in choice real estate, combined with the ongoing influx of migrants, have had an unprecedented effect on the availability of housing and therefore on property process in our country, presenting local people with a vivid expression that they are no longer living in a place that belongs to them.”
Scruton situated his insight about foreign investment in real estate in the broader debates over “somewheres” and “anywheres”, social cohesion, the Thatcherite privileging of the economic over the socio-cultural, the encroachment of multinationals, the continuing oikophobic moral panic, the financialisation of the economy, the community-crushing impacts and the very survival of British culture. Here, he was acting as a descendant of Enoch Powell and a forerunner of Rupert Lowe.
FOREIGNERS
At the time, and of itself, the decision to allow foreigners to own British real estate probably didn’t strike anyone at the time as a pivot point. It would have had its own, specific economic justifications and its champions. The globalists, of course, loved anywheres. Individuals and companies that came in, “invested”, stripped out companies, created unemployment, and then … left. But it established a beachhead, a platform for the future invasion of third world criminals, the grooming gangs and the march of Islamism into the very heart of British society and the institutions of government. Like the Islam-run Home Office. Looking back, it looks strategic and shapeshifting.
Changing the language and the ideology from “country”, “community” and “nation” to “real estate” has caused the crushing that we are now experiencing. And the right to property has always been a bedrock right in the liberal lexicon. When the right to property is granted to all, from wherever, well, everything changes. The nation is suddenly dead in the water. As is citizenship. And the very core belief in “homeland”.
Now, a decade on from the time of Scruton’s writing, post the Covid tyranny and the Boris wave of manic immigration, and in the midst of immigrant rape and murder and street violence, sane commentators are predicting civil war across Europe. Australia is watching in both horror and not a little foreboding.
In terms of the overall social and governance malaise, the usual suspects include globalisation, big government, the nanny State, forever wars, the UniParty, open borders, fiscal incontinence, dumbed down voters, woke education, corporatism and so on.
It’s pretty hard to peel back all the layers and differentiate the contributions of the culprits.
In this context, Scruton’s perceptive intervention holds a clue. And it hones in on specific decisions and not just rounded-up trends.
There has been another one of those consequential decisions this week. It was in the NSW Budget:-
“The NSW Government has created an easier path for foreign buyers to purchase homes, executing a stunning reversal on aspects of a previous crackdown on foreign property investors.
“After a decade of punitive taxes on overseas buyers, the government has officially axed its nine per cent foreign purchaser duty surcharge for eligible build-to-rent and retirement living mega-developments.”
It means foreign investors will now pay less tax on key housing projects.
It’s a bit of a contrast with the Albo Leninist Budget, which smashed Australian investors in housing (and other assets) through its negative gearing and capital gains tax changes.
FREEBIES
Albo’s Labor mates in Sydney are handing freebies to foreigners.
The development industry – how are developers ever called an “industry” for f#ck sake, since they don’t make anything – apart from ugly buildings which often fall down?
Developers and business generally are on board with mass immigration. Indeed, they are among its biggest fans.
They aren’t in the business of worrying about assaults on national identity. So long as their pockets are being lined with gold.
Governments love mass immigration because it expands the economy (GNP) and so allows them to keep borrowing from bond markets so as to keep spending on their communist schemes.
And corporates love mass immigration because it provides cheap labour and endless customers. And it all suits the woke direction of shared ideological travel.
But let’s make it even better.
Let’s play open borders with investment in property. They think – or, at least, they argue – that more investment in housing (by benighted foreigners) will increase supply and so help solve the current crisis.
Err, if this is right, why are the decision makers in Canberra strangling property investment by Australians?
It smells a little like two-tier taxation. A bit like two-tier justice in Britain, which favours foreigners living in Britain over Brits whose families have lived there (and paid taxes) for centuries.
Minns, forever seeking to situate himself as the sane face of modern Labor, turns out to be just another ALP stooge in the globalist game plan.
The goons in NSW Treasury no doubt came up with this. The NSW Treasury is headed up by Michael Coutts-Trotter, a former convicted drug dealer and husband of Albanese Minister Tanya Plibersek.
Roger Scruton spoke in his book about networks.
Granting more tax breaks to foreign gangs looks like a step in the wrong direction. And a slap in the face for ordinary Australians.
BANDITS
The current Right-of-centre bandits of the legacy Libs and Nats, forever squabbling and shooting themselves in both feet, should be all over this.
But, I forgot, half the opposition actually believes in the foreign takeover of our country.
They voted in Malcolm Turnbull, after all.
They will, no doubt, be cheering the latest tax breaks for foreigners.
While our own, native investors in property and wealth creation are driven through by the sword.PC
What a mess Australia is in. The left side of politics, the ALP and the Greens, are destroying Australia and the right with the gutless LNP and the as yet unorganised ON are not confronting the ALP and Greens.
But Pauline has the right attitude. Obviously the stupid, gutless LNP need to join ON but instead they act as though ON is their opponent and not the ALP/Greens. The problem therefore is the gutless LNP.
Did I mention the LNP are gutless.
If they are demanding monculturalism now, then lets’ NOT see any burqas etc starting NOW.
Senator Price is on track with her description of the minor party that was originally branded with the name of the founder but in more recent times her name was removed.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/liberal-senator-jacinta-nampijinpa-price-takes-aim-at-pauline-hanson-daughter-lee-and-one-nation-over-family-dynasty-claims/news-story/54a6ced1099d88e916fdcb1a2e9052be
Who was the “they” that voted in Malcolm Turnbull?
I understand they were the branch members of the Liberal Party Wentworth electorate who selected him as their candidate in a secret ballot after presentations by applicants for election replacing the sitting Liberal MP as candidate, and he was elected.
I doubt that half of the Liberal MPs today are LINO left faction members, Angus Taylor was elected as Opposition Leader earlier this year by two thirds of Liberal MPs voting, Matt Canavan elected Deputy Leader unopposed by the National Party.
No doubt at all that after the defeat of the Howard Government in November 2007 and Doctor Brendan Nelson was elected by the Liberal MPs to become Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull also applied for the position, and in 2008 he succeeded in replacing Brendan Nelson as Opposition Leader. He lasted until 2009 when Tony Abbott was elected to the position and he led the Coalition to the 2010 election and for all intents and purposes defeated the Labor Government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard who was forced to negotiate for alliances to form a minority Labor Government, including the Greens alliance partner. At the 2013 September election the Abbott led Coalition defeated Labor led again by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a landslide defeat.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott was replaced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in 2015, he led the Coalition at the 2016 election and all the new seats gained from Labor in 2013 were lost, the Turnbull Government survived due to one seat gained by the National Party.
In 2018 Prime Minister Turnbull was replaced by Prime Minister Morrison and he resigned and left Parliament soon afterwards.
Since May 2022 Albanese Labor have been in government and now in their fifth year of government.
It is now eight years since Malcolm Turnbull resigned and left Parliament.
And as for alternative government, I note that the Liberal National (LNP QLD) Opposition have a Leader and a Deputy Leader, and a Shadow Cabinet Minister opposite every one of thirty Labor side Cabinet.
The popular by polls party is a minor party that did not gain even one House of Representatives seat at the 2022 or the 2025 election. They are based in Queensland and over thirty years since being established what have they achieved? Not government anywhere, State or Federal.
They have in Federal Parliament just four Senators and now two House of Representatives MPs, one elected 2025 as a National and changed sides and the other elected at a by election 2026 who has already been councillor by the minor party leader for voting with Greens and Teals in Parliament.
That minor party has no deputy leader, they cannot obviously provide alternative government by matching the Albanese Government side.