by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party of Australia is a rotting corpse being dragged all over the place by its factional “warlords”.
The likes of lobbyist Michael Photios and federal MP Alex Hawke pretend that the Party still has life and purpose.
- The Liberals are a farce for all the reasons we’ve witnessed afresh this very week.
- They are consumed by their own debilitating fears.
- A future One Nation-led conservative government is, unfortunately, a pipe dream.
They need it to be alive for their own career purposes, if for no other reasons. They care nothing about providing Australia with a decent opposition Party.
We all, or at least some of us, met the fictional Bernie in 1989, as in Weekend at Bernie’s.
PLOT
The producers did very well to stretch a very simple and inherently funny core plot to two films.
The basic idea was for a couple of blokes to pretend that a corpse (their boss, Bernie) was still alive, for various reasons largely related to self-interest and self-protection, and to wheel him around in public to continue the fiction that he was still with us.
Corpse desecration became a sight gag that lasted several hours. There was comedic gold, of course.
There are several candidates in Australia and across the globe that might make suitable candidates for starring in Weekend at Bernie’s 3.
Like Phillip Adams, for example. Foolishly, he took on Henry Ergas over the Jewish question and got smashed.
Perhaps the mainstream media qualifies for Bernie status. In one sense dead already, in another sense still kicking but greatly diminished.
Karl Marx, in one of his more lucid moments, said that “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”.
The Party of Menzies’ ongoing, self-inflicted purgatory has elements of both tragedy and farce.
It is a tragedy that a generation of Australians dissatisfied with the communists in Canberra – not to mention those in Melbourne and Sydney who are bent on destroying our country – now have absolutely no one for whom to vote.
This is the result of four things:
- Australia’s UniParty system with the major Parties agreeing on all of the important things;
- The absence of an alternative, electable, focused centrist (or alt-Right) bloc;
- The perverse incentives working in (mostly rigged) pre-selections; and
- An electoral system (compulsory preferential) designed to keep the legacy Parties in power in lower houses.
It is a lethal combination.
For those heroically predicting a future One Nation-led conservative government, this is a pipe dream under current electoral arrangements.
I would bet a large amount on One Nation never getting a single House of Representatives seat. They might fluke one or two. They will never get more than this.
If they could get a few seats and work with a Liberal Government, well, things could shift. But that would need a strong Liberal Party which is inclined to work with One Nation.
The Liberal Party, however, is a farce for all of the reasons we have witnessed afresh this very week.
The endless revolving doors leadership, the absence of policy focus, the seeming inability to grow a spine, the endless “let’s talk about us” approach to public relations, the comfort of the factions and their pathetic, self-aggrandising obsessions with their own navels.
DEBILITATING
They are consumed by their own debilitating fears.
Switching from Marx to Oscar Wilde, losing one Party leader in a week might be dismissed as a misfortune. Losing two looks like carelessness.
The NSW and Victorian Liberal divisions are intentionally careless.
Kellie Sloane, the latest Liberal girlie-pops leader in Macquarie Street, comes from Vaucluse. The median house price last year was $8.9m. Whoa!
She has been in parliament two-and-a-bit years. She is (of course) a wet. Like all the others, she will only remain in situ for as long as Michael Photios determines.
Before she entered the bear pit, she was a TV journalist and a charity CEO. She is from South Australia and her first journalist job was at the ABC.
Ms Sloane’s first statement was to restate the NSW Liberal Party’s commitment to net-zero and to lament the federal Liberals’ decision to end their commitment to same.
What are the NSW Liberals thinking, to the extent that they are thinking?
Since 1995, following the defeat of the excellent John Fahey, there have been 10 Liberal leaders in NSW. (Only ten? You are probably thinking.)
These Included four premiers during the Liberal’s recent, disastrous time in government.
This is the home division of both John Howard and Tony Abbott, with the latter still urging voters to stick with the Liberals. The 24 per cent Party.
These people are not a serious political operation. They have no empathy with their own base, let alone the broader voting public.
Especially with the disenfranchised one third of the electorate. There is now a group dedicated to reviving the corpse.
It is called the Liberal Reform Association:
- Do you want to save conservative politics?
- We need your help to reform the Liberal Party across Australia.
- To this end, we have created the Liberal Reform Association to gather together hundreds of thousands of conservative-leaning, common-sense Australians.
- Together, this voting force will reform the existing Liberal Party. Members will call the shots – not politicians.
They want to “reclaim the dream”. Well, don’t we all? All power to their arm. Their task is immense.
Talk about heroic optimism. Good Liberals – yes, there are still a few – have been trying to do this for a long, long time.
What they face is a vertically integrated, corrupt system of selecting and then controlling elected representatives, a commitment to globalist ideology, the reduction of their own representatives to the status of puppets, and a career structure set up for those who comply. Those who comply are in a comfortable majority.
So, the familiar, tired refrain – join a major Party and reform it – is beyond hollow.
If there is an argument to suggest that the Liberals are anything but a Bernie-like corpse, dead Party walking, I would like to hear it.PC
Until the once great Party WAKES UP and either expels or cuts the wings off these useless worthless self appointed factional warlords LoL :(( (WANKERS); they will NEVER EVER become the party in Govt.
I walked prior to 2012; after an active non factional membership of 46 years. The repulsive drink driving lobbyist busy with taking over the party and controlling it for his own reasons ; saw many of us loyal members depart.
Two state elections ago I did not vote Liberal in the upper House because of the incompetent Harwin.
At the last Election; for the FIRST TIME EVER in 60 years of voting Liberal; I did not vote Liberal!!! Why? Because of the ultra left wing useless climate change wanker in a seat 50 KMs away from mine.
Where is he now? being way overpaid by his great Labor Party mates and cronies.
The Party needs to urgently enact strong regulations that stringently control these worthless egocentric so called warlords; be they Right Left or Center. The Party is now heading rapidly into OBLIVION unless they take firm positive action to rid itself of this scourge.
The Party is now heading rapidly into OBLIVION […]
LOL; I reckon they can see oblivion in the rear-view mirror…
The SFLs revealed themselves when they voted en masse to censure courageous Pauline Hanson and by doing so support the burqa and the insidious effect Islam is having in this nation. The point is the SFLs stand for nothing, they come across as whimpering little kids and at best as Labor lite. Why would you vote for a pale shadow of the real commie thing?
The real losers however are the Australian electorate. There simply is no option to the communist, alarmist destroyers who have taken over the ALP, except Pauline and ON and they don’t have the infrastructure yet to step into the role that the gutless, feckless SFLs have abdicated from.
It’s going to be a very tough few years for this country as the destructive policies of the ALP are effectively unopposed.
What is the point of swapping a wet with a wet – not going to get us millions of conservatives back.
We’re gone when treasonous Turnbull & his moderates backstabbed sitting 14-seat majority PM – have gone to almost oblivion since.
The Liberal Party is divided into two – the libertarians or the right wing, and the socialists, called the moderates. The political split goes up through the Liberal Party. This is the reason for the ineffectiveness of the Liberals. Since half are socialists, they cannot agree on what policies to oppose Labor.
Why is the Liberal Party split in this manner? It is deliberate. In the 1930’s a brilliant Marxist called Antonio Gramsci wrote a book that is the most effective of all socialist tracts. In summary he said that in modern society the Marxist revolution was impossible. Socialism cannot be achieved by violence.
Instead, socialists can achieve a socialist society by infiltrating all institutions in that society, both public and private, and eventually taking them over. They start at the bottom, but as these people ascend, they only promote and employ their own to replace them at their vacated positions. This strategy has been wildly successful. In Australia there has not been a major institution that is now not controlled by the left. Not only the Public Service, Reserve Bank (all Labour Economists), the ABC, through to ALL the media (including the Australian and the Financial Review), through to the Commonwealth Bank, and yes of course, the Liberal Party. The Libs selection system is totally un-democratic and is now controlled by a group of lefties at the top. The Liberals are just Labor lite.
What can be done about it? Nothing. Its been tried. The only solution is to combine all the minor splinter parties into a “Reform” Party. Is this going to happen in the near future? No. What I have seen is that everybody wants to be “Fuehrer”. The leaders won’t even meet and get together, and thrash out a structure and policies. Sad. But that is the only way to go.
On a slightly separate subject, Labor won because they are professional. They realised that they can only win if they have a sufficient number of “preference sweeps” giving them their final preferences. The Libs did not even try. If the “Reform” Party wants to win, not just whine in opposition, it must create at least half a dozen Parties that will give them their preferences, and apply them to each electorate. Costly, but with the Australian electoral system, the only way.
Agree 100% however, at the ground level where the big wigs never lower lower themselves to see or hear, it’s worse.
Personal safety has now become a mantra which allows Public Servants to refuse to act when the public asks for action.
We wanted a Pedestrian crossing behind a school which had multiple lanes, a 40 zone, a kindergarten across the road, it was registered with the RTA as a heavy vehicle road..b doubles etc, and 18 children had to cross that road with no crossing or lights every school day.
The reason it was almost immediately refused with no investigation is that ‘they’ considered it unsafe for a school crossing supervisor to be there!
The crossing had not been built.
No one hired yet it was considered unsafe for a trained adult in bright yellow clothes on a crossing with a flag!
Well, if it is too unsafe for them, what about the unsupervised, unprotected children?
You all need to understand that this insanity has cost lives. And will cost more. Because they try to hide the reason for their refusal- perhaps deep down they are ashamed of themselves.
With Kellie Sloane leading the NSW Opposition there may be some poll clawback. I doubt it will occur at a decisive level. The state parlimentary federal party actively supporting net zero and the federal parliamentary party with an ambiguous rejection of it muddies any decisive policy likely to benefit the Liberals. Other policy heads? The Nats have a clear position at both state and federal level. Sloane may be a more personable etc leader but she is of the Liberal Left and captive to it. There will need to be other high profile policy opportunities emerging for her to truly threaten Minns. Will it be bigger handouts?
Then we come to the backroom lobbyists, they will and can influence Liberal preselections, MPs are subject to them at every turn but especially on net zero. They have a solid advocacy group in the Federal Opposition. Its the reason that while net zero ‘appears’ to be on the back burner the federal policy wording leaves it open to seek net zero compliance measures. The shunning of select Liberal candidates in May demonstrated the lobby influence, with the Liberal Left not participating where a candidate was not of their choosing, apart from showboat occassions .
The NSW Liberals are now muddling around constitution reform. Thus far it is an apparent Liberal Left stitch up, no democratisation at conference or state council level mooted, of course yet to be voted on. Preselections would devolve to local party membership. with a measure of democratisation. That would likely be factionally unmanageable so ‘no thanks’. It is/was a shot at regaining membership but a cabal is likly to be preferred.
Is one Nation the alternative? I think not. Its a one woman band with little to commend its policy platform at a wider community level despite some effective clear thinkers like Malcolm Roberts and some sound, imo, policies.
So Australia remains at serious risk of further socio economic deterioration
“With Kellie Sloane leading the NSW Opposition there may be some poll clawback.”
Yeah, sure – there’s nothing like putting a brain-dead woke female at the helm of a sinking ship to improve matters…
What a surprise. The Liberals, having discarded Net Zero, are still determined to maintain their Labor-lite status.
Maybe the stampede away from the gala(h?) event will trigger some reflection.
All in all, though, the Hasties and Antics and the few lingering old school Libs should start looking for a new home. Why not? They wouldn’t exactly be first out the door.
An article in the Spec this week said that many Liberals still regard One Nation as ‘an unserious protest party’. That’s real head up your backside thinking – Singapore 1942 comes to mind.