by PAUL COLLITS – THE unflushable ghost Malcolm Turnbull thinks the Liberal Party – which he unfortunately led for a brief and forgettable moment – should “stop living in a Right-wing populist bubble”.
Tony Abbott, who was knifed by the same Malcolm Turnbull, believes the Liberals should not become “One Nation lite” in the aftermath of the necessary but insufficient dispensing with the services of yet another useless female leader.
- Only the idiot’s idiot, Malcolm Turnbull, could believe the Liberals are Right wing.
- Establishment Liberals only think and talk about themselves.
- The once family-oriented Liberal base has been crushed.
This is an unusual, apparent coincidence of views, to say the least.
While each would run a million miles from being compared to the other, they seem to be on the same page here.
GREENIE TURNBULL
We all know exactly where the greenie Turnbull is coming from.
He is a buffoon with nothing to offer in the way of ideas other than those that he gets on speed dial from Davos.
Abbott, on the other hand, is Australia’s last decent PM – decent in all of its meanings – with a thought-through, carefully constructed, nuanced world view and still with plenty to offer those willing to listen.
It’s just that I disagree with him here. And, to be fair, the ABC story was a very short media grab.
He also said that the Libs shouldn’t be anything else-lite. But his headline comment begs many questions.
My immediate retort to both?
The Liberals – about which I care very little post COVID – should be One Nation heavy. And they should recognise what a “Right wing populist bubble” means. And move rapidly to occupy it.
Only the idiot’s idiot, Turncoat, could believe that they currently exist in anything approaching Right wingism. Only a stakeholder communist like Malcolm could believe that centrists like One Nation voters – of which there seem to be plenty now – could be described as Right wing.
Both views reflect what Eric Weinstein has called “insiderism”. It is, sadly, another case of the establishment Liberals talking about themselves. It actually isn’t about them. Speaking of bubbles …
The “new look” Liberal Party, if it for once starts thinking about we-the-people, it might actually begin to haul itself back to some sort of relevance.
It may rediscover that magic, yet, seemingly elusive combo of spine and principle.
The Liberals must stop being scared of its own true centrism. It must stop kowtowing to its and our enemies. To cease endlessly tacking to the zeitgeist. A zeitgeist created by its and our enemies.
It must stop trying to please establishment Party grandees. Past men. They don’t count for shit. They live in the past and the past is, indeed, another country.
None of this is rocket science, of course.
Yet, I think the chances of the Liberal Party, as it is now constituted, moving to the Right (the real centre) are as close to net-zero as you could get.
So, our two former PMs need not overly worry.
Exhibit A is the maintenance of the factional status quo, which has not changed by one single centimetre despite the change in the leadership.
When Alex Hawke and Michael Photios are hosed out of the stables, along with all the other pieces of horse shit, I might begin to believe again.
They won’t be anytime soon.
Exhibit B is the much-perpetrated myth that the Liberals’ problem is that they stand for nothing. Not so.
The current Liberal Party stands four-square behind globalism, managerialism and technocracy.
FAILED
After all, it is the Party that gave us multiculturalism, failed Middle Eastern wars, ramped-up migration, COVID tyranny, the eSafety Commissioner, social media censorship and, most recently, the repulsive hate speech laws. Many they initiated.
Some they cravenly went along with.
No, the Liberals do stand for something. They need to change what they stand for. About 80 per cent of the electorate (apparently) now says so.
Exhibit C is the fact that the Liberal Party continues to be two Parties in one. And the two components are utterly incompatible.
They hate each other, and they hate each other’s world views. Why no one in establishment Aussie liberalism seems to get this is beyond me. (Actually, it isn’t beyond me. The various players have careers to protect, and that is all they care about).
So even to talk about “the Party” and its future is to make a category error.
Exhibit D is the priority of the new leader. It is selecting the new shadow cabinet. This should be way down the list. Selecting the shadow cabinet is not front of mind for those voters who have left the Party. What they would rather see, up front, is an apology for past Liberal sins. In particular, they would like to see an acknowledgement that the Liberal original sin has been managing up to the global, Epstein-aligned class, and not managing down to the Liberal base and the crushed, outsider class. It looks, alas, like BAU.
I DOUBT SHE EVEN KNOWS
Exhibit E is the new deputy leader, one Jane Hume, a moderate woman (of course) from Victoria. I watched her briefly on the news the other day. Five minutes of my life I will never get back. All she said – about three dozen times – was that the Liberal Party “had to change”. She never said, nor was she asked, what change might look like. I doubt she even knows.
I have little doubt that her definition of change and my own are the length of the Simpson Desert apart. And in the desert the Liberals will remain, becalmed on 18 per cent or whatever. Until they discover (again, as Menzies did in the late 1940s) the forgotten people.
If this is what Abbott meant by his reference to rediscovering the party of Menzies and Howard, well and good. By the early 1970s, Menzies was not even voting for the Liberals. And they were a lot better then, Billy Snedden notwithstanding, than they are now. And they are now facing a far more dire existential crisis – not for them but for US – than they were, even in the times of Edward Gough Whitlam.
My best guess is that Menzies would be now voting for just about anyone to the right of the Libs. Including One Nation. As a pragmatic centrist, Menzies would now be locating himself with those in the right-wing populist bubble. Lock, stock and smoking barrel.
And I honestly believe that he would be advising his best two successors to do likewise.PC
Most informative Paul. First time I’ve read your column & I will continue.
This has a Turnbullian whiff about it.
SBS: Sussan was just about to bring down a real kick-arse immigration policy but they dumped her right at the last minute!
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/opposition-was-preparing-widespread-immigration-bans-before-liberal-leadership-spill/z89xa831g
And the story comes from, wait for it, ‘a Liberal source familiar with the negotiations.’
That perennial whisperer again. Known in the women’s magazines as ‘a close friend of the couple’.
I think that by now most Liberal supporters are aware of the infiltration of the Liberal Party of Australia during the Howard Government terms 1996-2007 by the now known as “Miserable Ghost” and associates?
The timeline of his history from school student to standing for selection as a Liberal for Wentworth electorate candidate is very interesting reading and can be viewed at the website – stopturnbull.com.au
The MPs many refer to as LINO left (Liberal In Name Only) have slowly gained considerable influence via state executive offices and parliamentary representatives elected.
The stated objective was to wreck the Coalition via the Liberal Party and then form alliances to create one unassailable governing party with no opposition strong enough to replace the elected government.
UK Fabian Society of Marxist socialism was reported to be a role model and the saying “inevitability of gradualness” adopted from the Fabians. Note Australian Fabian Society being an ALP members club here. and Labor MPs, notably the PM followers of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky – the late Labor elder and former MP/Minister Graham “Richo” Richardson referred to him as “the Trot”.
In my opinion the alliance government objective was mostly about left leaning political beliefs and wealth creation schemes from government influenced projects and policies.
And that the much later creation of the Teals, claiming to be independents but backed by founder Climate200 contributors and vested interests, noting their emphasis on being “sensible right” candidates and climate change focus.
One Nation is of course after thirty something years a minor party, only one Federal MP in the House of Representatives, former National Party MP and Leader. They have a few Senators as well. However they have no hope of getting enough candidates elected in 2028 to form the Opposition, let alone Government.
I hope common sense prevails and voters who want to give One Nation their primary [1] first vote then vote [2] for the Liberal or National candidate followed by any other not from the left candidates, putting last in this order:- Teal Green Labor
Pauline Hanson and One Nation are not equipped to become government. They lack the infrastructure required and Pauline herself is not equipped to be Prime Minister. She gets carried away and says unwise things, which she did again last night on Sharri Markson’s show. It is good that One Nation has picked up its numbers and I fervently hope that the Party keeps nibbling away at the numbers from Labor voters but the only feasible way to beat this revolting Labor government is for a strong conservative Coalition government and a loose deal with One Nation. Especially important is for How to Vote cards to preference each other.
With genuine respect, Pauline Hanson is a headline grabber and hits the mark with conservative voters, but very short on the details.
I hope One Nation and their supporters do not make the mistake of letting Albanese Labor slip back in for a third term in 2028, in 2026 with under 35% of the primary vote and only 8 candidates elected on primary first choice votes, securing a huge majority of electorate seats.
One Nation competitive?
One only House of Representatives MP, former National MP Barnaby Joyce is a good bloke but not able to form opposition alone, and to get enough new members elected to rival the Coalition is mission impossible.
It’s Time again, this time for all conservatives to work hard to remove the Albanese Union controlled Labor far left dominated Government from office next election.
Vote last in this order please:- Teals Greens Labor
And One Nation attacks are when fact checked often misleading, for example tonight on Sky News their rep claimed the Coalition was the stamp duty creators, but that was state governments and they when reaching agreement on the GST all distributed to state/territory governments (Federal abolished Wholesale Sales Tax) agreed to abolish stamp duty, payroll tax and other taxes, and mostly failed to do so. And now we pay GST on top of stamp duty.
Of course the Coalition over decades has made mistakes, but they have governed more terms than Labor have, and overall done a very good job before the LINO left faction influencers began interfering.
Abbott Government stopped after going close to defeating Gillard Labor in 2010, defeated Rudd back again Labor in 2013 and in 2015 PM Abbott was replaced by a narrow margin by that Ghost. At the 2016 election all of the new seats won in 2013 were lost and the Coalition was in damage control.
With regard for the Gillard Labor period, she was of course selected first as Deputy Labor Leader to Opposition Leader Rudd in 2006, by 2009 Labor appointed her Prime Minister replacing PM Rudd, and noting that Kevin Rudd was supported by Anthony Albanese MP to convince Labor to dump PM Gillard.
Albanese Labor, and there are other examples, are in no position to run attack advertisements and relentless negativity based on so called problems with women in the Liberal Party.
For a more recent example remember the “Mean Girls” attacking Liberals in the Senate about a legal matter since heard in court and judgements that the Liberals were innocent victims.
My expectations of Angus Taylor were low, until I saw that quote from Turnbull that some people think Taylor’s the best qualified idiot they’ve ever met.
How Turnbullian, to be the first in with the dagger!
If Taylor has the Malignant One for an enemy he might be worth something after all.
Isn’t it interesting that we never heard a peep from Turnbull while one of his fellow wets was Leader. No doubt she was on the list of MP’s who voted for him when the 2015 spill was on! She was rewarded with his complete silence.
All going to plan of course until the leadership was questioned.
And noting that past leadership ballots have been won or lost by a slim margin of Liberal MP votes, Angus Taylor received two-thirds
“But his headline comment begs many questions.”
Firstly, one should not begin sentences with conjunctions (they teach this at Primary School).
Secondly, Tony’s take does not “beg many questions”, it “raises many questions” (to “beg the question” means something entirely different).