The wets in the Liberal Party are watering everything down so the whole project looks wet. Some say they are trying to encourage new growth. Sprout a few green shoots. Others speculate all that water makes the factional war harder to spot.

There are plenty of people on the Mid-North Coast who can explain to the party exactly what happens when you leave water hanging around on the foundations for too long.

What’s the story this time?

According to the Australian Financial Review last night, the party has ‘put the Coalition’s nuclear power policy to the sword’.

That sounds like nuclear is being scapegoated in the Biblical sense, where some poor animal has everyone’s sins attached to it before being released into the wilderness to be devoured.

This decision to step away from nuclear comes despite our largest ally and the world’s most powerful country announcing a major rollout of nuclear plants as a matter of national security.

Whatever. Geopolitical reality is of little matter to domestic policy these days.

Just like the climate change deadline, Australia’s nuclear age is being nudged out into a future well beyond the current political lifespan of Shadow Cabinet.

It now looks as though the only ‘nuclear policy’ left inside the broad church is a wishy-washy desire to lift the moratorium.

As James Paterson said:

‘The answer for the Liberal Party going forward on this is probably not to take what we did to the last election, which is a government-initiated and managed and run program where taxpayers would finance and build them. But instead to go for a more traditional Liberal approach, a more market-based approach, which is to repeal the prohibition on nuclear power, and then leave it up to the energy industry to decide if they want to invest in nuclear.’

Okay. So why doesn’t the Liberal Party take this approach to renewable energy? Why have they, in the past, signed off on enormous taxpayer grants and market manipulations that deliberately elevate solar, wind, and batteries?

Oh right. I think I remember. It was something about the existential threat of a carbon human-induced climate crisis apocalypse ocean-rising planet-burning doomsday that requires the complete restructuring of our economy to something that resembles stakeholder communism capitalism.

No amount of money is too much because … climate change.

If that is true, which it’s obviously not because Canberra maintains a firm addiction to flying around, then spending money on nuclear energy is a no-brainer for a Liberal Party devoted to being responsible citizens and meeting those ‘Net Zero goals’.

Ah. But the radical Left university students, which the Liberals think they have to woo to be ‘modern’, don’t like nuclear because some washed-out commie hippies from the 70s nested inside the education system and decided they quite liked money so long as it came from the taxpayer. They have their super invested in green things propped up by taxpayers and fear-mongering, all of it nursing a vested interest in keeping the next generation of voters addicted to the delusion that MPs can control the climate with tax.

The argument we are supposed to swallow from both Labor (who lie all the time) and the Liberals (who claim to be morally superior) is that the world is going to end unless we decarbonise the economy but we’re not allowed to build the only energy system capable of doing so – one supported by the United Nations who set the climate goals and started the apocalyptic propaganda – because Australian politicians can no longer de-radicalise an electorate they radicalised on purpose to win elections based on the climate apocalypse. Got that?

And then the Liberal Party wonders why thinking, sentient conservatives can no longer take them seriously.

Politicians tell us to be smart, and then insist we fall for this stupidity.

We’d like to vote for you, but you’ve got to get your propaganda in a straight line first.

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