Bloody hell! I’m starting to feel just a little bit sorry for the Liberal Party rank-and-file.
In the wake of the party’s historic trashing in Aston overnight, many of the talking heads and the political wisenuts will no doubt be agreeing – once more in some cases – that the Liberal Party needs to change if it ever again wants to be a force in Australian politics at the federal, state or even local level, with the possible exception of Brisbane.
And my best guess is that those distressed rank-and-filers know the chances of that happening are even less than Sussan Ley behaving herself and acting like an adult just for once in Question Time.
The added conundrum to their angst is that while they probably largely accept that the party’s change of direction has to be one of moderation, there’s a huge swag of their elected pollies who agree with the Sky News After Dark crew and some other rabid rightwingers in Murdoch’s rotten rags who see their only hope for salvation as being a leap to the right. Lots of luck with that, the Rowan Deans of that dark and sinister space.
My Twitterfeed is full of comment as to why the Liberals have been reduced to just two federal seats in Melbourne, once the jewel in the party’s crown. And they are all valid.
But here’s the one that I suspect permeated the campaign in Aston, floated about in the back of people’s minds, even though it may not have been mentioned much: The Voice.
It’s now very clear that Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party are going to come out and oppose The Voice. Pauline Hanson must be very proud of Dutton’s dog whistling line: “The darkies are going to be given something that’s not being offered to us whities!”
It’s a nonsense, of course, gobbled up and swallowed by a gullible, white, racist National Party but here’s the bottom line: Dutton could be smart enough – once again, incredibly doubtful – to know that one immediate response to the Aston catastrophe would be to provide non-National but otherwise bipartisan support for a proposal that’s totally fair and reasonable for a historically advantaged One Nations people.
But he can’t. If Dutton’s mind is not easily swayed by #whitelivesmattertoo nonsense, far too many of his colleagues’ minds are.
The rank and file must truly despair. The solution to the Liberal Party’s problems, federally at least, is to see the backs of many of their sitting politicians including, sadly is my best guess, Dutton himself.
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Were there two Roshena Campbells on the hustings in Aston these past five weeks?
On the ABC’s election broadcast last night, David Speers and Patricia Karvelas both declared Campbell a fine candidate, one from the party’s moderate wing. Indeed, the party’s future.
Isn’t she a member of the Institute of Public Affairs along with her repulsive reptile of a husband, LNP publicist James Campbell? No doubt, like hubbie, hellbent on seeing the ABC sold off to the Dirty Digger? Surely she must have gone along with every word that sprawling sloth of a hubbie uttered as he bagged Victoria and Victorians over recent years? In total agreement whenever he’s asked to pen hate yarns in other states as well, pilloring left-wing governments and the citizens who have decided, quite frequently over recent decades, that Labor can manage economies and look after their interests.
James Campbell hates working class people. And their unions. Hates the idea they aren’t content to be trickled down upon every now and then. Uses woke as a putdown. Hates the ABC because Murdoch doesn’t own it. His basic mantra: the Right is always right! No wonder he’s the perfect fit at the Hun Herald.
I find it rather amusing to think Roshena might have been partly punished yesterday for sharing a bed with that vile viper of vituperation, that dreadful excuse for a journalist. Oops, excuse me for a moment. I’d better fetch a bucket!
Last year, didn’t she chastise successful Teal candidates for having the temerity to be “squatters” in traditional Liberal strongholds? Ah, the sense of entitlement! That innate understanding of the class structure that exists even in Australian society!
She must be in shock and total denial that the working-class of Aston, the nurses and other healthcare workers, the public servants, those of Chinese origins, the young’uns who don’t swallow the Libs-are-better-at managing-economies bullshit that worked for decades, have just shat mightily all over her precious Tory stronghold.
Hope she was wearing her barrister’s wig and it provided some basic protection.
Don Gordon-Brown
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