The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party’s problems, but who is going to lead them? The truth is that the Liberals aren’t interested in Australia’s future. They don’t want to fight for our culture or to help us keep our houses when interest rates are destroying our standard of living. In my opinion, the Liberals have revealed themselves as a bunch of silvertails who are out of touch.
The whole party deserves to go as bankrupt as they are sending the rest of us.
Anthony Albanese is having a field day. The worst Prime Minister in Australian history is getting away with incompetence because his complete rock-show of a circus has been overtaken by the Liberals’ own clown show. It’s been happening for years, and the faceless machine-men and their turkeys are all coming home to roost. Even the ABC’s former chief leftologist has gleefully come out of retirement to tell us that, historically, One Nation’s surge hurts the Coalition most.
The problem with this idea is its premise. Once the Coalition finds its feet, it can turn back the tide … but that is nonsense.
Sussan Ley might as well be Albanese’s deputy. Andrew Hastie said what conservatives wanted to hear, then backed the government and then roused on his no-longer adoring followers after doing the opposite of what he said he’d do. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price explained that she missed the vote due to a technical glitch in the Senate’s division system. Angus Taylor was on holiday. Tim Wilson might not even last the next election. Josh Frydenberg came back strong but then made it all about himself. And there is no guarantee he can be re-elected unless he moves to a safer seat.
The only Liberal worth saving is Alex Antic, but he is in the Senate and the South Australian Liberals would prefer to have their own person rather than win an election. I really hope Antic moves to One Nation.
The only way the Liberals can save themselves, including those like Hastie, Price, and Taylor is to admit that they have lost their way and apologise on their knees for being so weak.
The trouble with politicians is that they forget they are dealing with Australians. You can’t be on holiday while the country burns and later claim that you have the goods to lead Australians. You can’t say you will do something then do the opposite and then get cranky at your followers. You can’t say your dog ate your homework and that’s why you didn’t vote against idiotic laws crafted by a reckless Labor government.
You have to fight the good fight. And keep battling. That’s why One Nation is building momentum. It’s not dissatisfaction with the Liberals or a protest vote. It’s because One Nation is as Australian as Australia.
At the Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War, when asked to surrender, Colonel Charles Hore, commander of the garrison which included Australian bushmen, told Boer General de la Rey:
‘Even if I wished to surrender to you – and I don’t – I am commanding Australians who would cut my throat if I accepted your terms.’
Similarly, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel said of the Australians:
‘If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it…’
Rommel saw the Australians as elite, aggressive, and capable of overcoming nearly impossible odds, such as taking a heavily fortified position. Or defeating a Labor government when the Liberals have lost the plot. For Australians, nothing is impossible.
Heads-up Ley, Hastie, Price, Taylor, Wilson, and any other silvertail who thinks Australians will be compliant and go along willingly. You are dealing with the sons and daughters of Anzacs. You have to earn our respect. And you better bloody fight.
Others will no doubt argue that Australia has changed, our demographics have changed, and so on. But the beating heart of Australia was forged in South Africa, at Gallipoli, at Villers-Bretonneux, at El Alamein, and on the Kokoda Track.
What we are witnessing is a revival of an Australia that is good and strong and tough and beautiful. It is not a place where the wharfies can go on strike and put the lives of my grandfathers at risk and get away with it. Although they have surely given it a good nudge under Labor and the Woke Liberals. All of this must change.
If the silvertail Liberals think a change in leadership will be enough to save themselves and keep going as per usual, they have another thing coming.
Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is the Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. If you would like to support his writing, or read more of Michael, please visit his website.
