WITH Labor retreating from its climate crusade at breakneck pace, extremist Liberal MPs risk being marginalised as they continue to push minor party causes.
The climate wars, initiated in 2010 by a Greens deal with Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard, are almost singularly responsible for the ALP’s last three federal election losses.
Almost a decade after Gillard’s carbon tax – which has so far delivered Labor at least nine years in opposition – her colleagues have finally realised that insane environmentalism ranks as a 10th order issue for most voters outside inner-cities.
Indeed, opinion polls show a majority of Australians view the vast economic damage flowing from enviro-socialism as a much greater concern.
Voters call out ‘climate emergency’ propaganda
As 2019’s “unlosable” federal election approached, then-ALP leader Bill Shorten labelled it the “climate change election”, promising to transform Australia into an inner-city oasis – banning 50 per cent of family sedans and closing regional mines.
After winning every major opinion poll for what seemed years, his campaign gob-smackingly prioritised the green-Left “talking class” over Labor’s traditional “working class”. The result? Labor lost the election, the Liberals increased their majority and Shorten lost his job.
Senior Labor MPs are now panicked at the prospect of a fourth term in climate change exile and are scrambling to abandon the Gillard/Shorten poisoned pill.
Labor & Turnbull ravaged by climate curse
ALP shadow minister Amanda Rishworth conceded on the weekend that there was “open debate” inside Labor over climate change – but then blamed the Morrison government for her Party’s “complete uncertainty”.
“What we’ve got is complete uncertainty when it come to the government’s policy,” she told The Australian newspaper on Saturday.
Perplexingly, at the same time, Labor senators Alex Gallacher and Glenn Sterle backed shadow resources minister Joel Fitzibbon’s call for the ALP to support the Morrison government’s emissions plan.
This followed a white flag plea last month by Labor leader Anthony Albanese to end the climate wars.
In a letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Albanese wrote that Labor was “open minded on a new policy mechanism” on climate policy.
Energy Minister Angus Taylor described Labor’s retreat as a “rejection of its pre-election climate policies”.
“Labor’s acknowledgement that their energy policies destroy jobs and increase financial pressure on Australians is welcomed,” he said.
Green ‘hoax’ wrapped in a scare campaign
Meanwhile rogue Liberal MPs continue to work with Greens and single-issue independents such as Warringah’s Zali Steggall pushing insane environmental causes.
Looking as though her entire climate platform has been abandoned by Labor, Steggall is now scrambling to win favour with ultra-Left Liberal MPs instead – both State and federal.
Such collaboration should result in a timely departure for her and her so-called “Moderate” Liberal mates from Parliament.PC
I hope this strategy doesn’t take off.
The one benefit from the noisy leftist minorities is that the likes of Labor have repeatedly and mistakenly believed that the majority are somehow on board with their nonsense.
It has always seemed to me that the mockery constantly directed the Coalition’s way by Labor, the Greens and their fellow travellers in the progressive media for not embracing the climate religion has failed to grasp a fundamental reality.
Far from being detrimental to the Coalition’s political prospects the climate alarmism club has done far more political damage to Labor and to those who tried to turn the Coalition’s direction on the issue.
It destroyed Rudd, Gillard and Turnbull and now looks like destroying Albanese as well.
Just proves Labor is a bunch of self-serving career seekers who will say anything to get into power while tub-thumping on their moral high-horse. Why would anyone trust them? We had a taste of what a Labor man turned careerist Liberal, Turnbull, is like… and he’s still trying to gain relevance with ‘Climate Change’ policies that would destroy Liberal Govt.
The same party who tells us to ‘listen to the science’ on climate change lectures us on the multiple gender theory and that cow farts are heating up the planet. Please. If the ALP remains in the wilderness for another 20 years that’s fine by me.
Never forget the LABOR mantra “Whatever it takes”, and disbelieve them if they SAY they have changed their minds!