There are rumours that One Nation is head-hunting another two Coalition members. If true, this is Reform behaviour.

Nigel Farage’s conservative revolution has employed the enormously successful tactic of power by conversion where high-profile defections have expanded Reform’s political presence in government outside of the election cycle.

The most recent example being the acquisition of a member sitting in the House of Lords.

Lord Malcolm Offord joined Reform last week, leaving his role as the spokesman in the Lords on energy. In doing so, he accused the Scottish Conservatives of ‘giving up’ on Scotland and that the party had become ‘parochial, not political’ adding it was ‘a party without vision’.

Remind you of something?

There is a sense of rot about the legacy conservative movements.

The natural tendency of all political movements is to drift toward Big Government. Left-wing labour movements are stable because they are Big Government. Conservatism is a resistance. Freedom takes effort. It is a fight against the tide.

Money and power corrupt and government has both.

As I have said before, and will again, conservative movements must phoenix in order to re-spawn back onto the true right. This means getting rid of the rotten politicians who are too comfortable within their factional power systems.

Reform is snatching the political refugees who still believe in a free world.

Maga Republicans are doing the exact same thing under Trump, even if they have to go about it a different way inside the American system.

Holistically, global conservatism is entering its revival by fire fuelled by the young, even if its figureheads are older. If anything, they are the dying embers of golden years that are being kindled into the next movement. The passing of a torch.

Australia is having a tougher time replicating the revival, but after a vicious ground war between rising minor parties at the previous federal election, most observers agree that One Nation has won. Voters are collapsing into One Nation, a process which has accelerated with the high-profile defection of former Nationals Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.

That is one hell of a coup.

And now the rumours have started. Are there more to come?

The Saturday Paper ran the headline, Exclusive: Libs brace for Price’s defection to One Nation. This seems doubtful, particularly the follow-up about her running in New England.

Every political move that Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has made in recent years suggests someone with their eye on the prize of a Cabinet role in the next government and possibly a future leader. She has not exhausted this possibility, unlike Joyce who had been sidelined by an ungrateful party. There is a lot of ground to move before I would bet on a Price defection. That said, the behaviour of the Liberal leadership is incomprehensible.

If not Price, are there any other names on the list that voters would like to see move across? We asked our followers on Facebook what they thought…

Some of the responses are fun, others absurd, and some are very interesting…

Tony Abbott? Well, spiritually he would probably prefer to walk over glass but there are little hints and nudges that he is considering a return to politics. For a party desperately in need of a renewal, this wouldn’t be a good idea even though there are many older members longing for the ‘stop the boats’ nostalgia.

Another thought it might be ‘all the Nationals’ which … is not altogether out of the question if we are talking about a soft coalition rather than a defection. One Nation has surprised everyone by quickly gaining ground with young working men in the suburbs, giving them reach into urban areas which the Nationals have never managed.

Matt Canavan was another name repeated quite often, but this seems extremely unlikely given the antagonistic comments he has made toward One Nation in recent weeks. He is, of course, rightly defending his party position and doing so with enough passion to suggest he’s not going anywhere.

Alex Antic is interesting, but I hope not. I’ll lose far too many bets if he does as I have him picked as the future Prime Minister. (You heard me, Alex.)

Someone said James Paterson but they were quickly corrected by other commentators who said it was more likely he’d defect to the Teals. (Said unseriously.)

Michaelia Cash popped up a few times as an option, but that is probably as likely as Andrew Hastie or Angus Taylor. In other words, not at all.

I am not convinced, but maybe I have overlooked someone. If you had to flag the next defection to One Nation, who would you pick?

If it’s a Teal, we’ll know the end is nigh.