The Liberal Party could not be more rattled by the rise of One Nation and the speech by Angus Taylor earlier this month made this very clear.
The results in South Australia demonstrated that the demise of the Liberal Party and rise of One Nation isn’t just a polling phenomenon, it’s the reality at the ballot box as well. By most metrics, we comfortably beat the SA Liberals and we’re now the true opposition to Labor in SA.
In response to the rise of One Nation, even before the SA results, the Liberals started panicking.
First, they binned their leader, potentially opening the door for us to win and secure a Federal seat, and now they’re trying to mimic us by sounding hard on immigration. Their problem is their credibility on the issue is completely shot.
Why would voters who abandoned them believe a word they have to say?
Are we honestly supposed to believe that Angus Taylor and his divided party would significantly cut immigration and ensure the right sort of people come here? Though net migration has been out of control under this Labor government, the rot really started to set in with the last Liberal-led government.
It was the last Liberal-led government that presided over out-of-control mass migration, where over 200,000 per year became the norm. Not only were the numbers unsustainable, but the quality was also part of the problem. Too many people were able to move here who don’t share our values, don’t have any desire to love Australia as it is, and instead seem intent on trying to change it and fragment our communities.
What did Angus Taylor do throughout most of this time? Sit in government as a Minister. Yet we’re now supposed to believe he’s had some sort of Damascene conversion to becoming a hawk on the issue. Hardly.
The truth is that even if Angus Taylor is serious about implementing a much tougher approach on immigration, could he really take his party with him? A party that has been and remains deeply divided on the issue…
Aussies were never asked whether they agreed to the tilt towards out-of-control mass migration. No one ever voted on it, but the uniparty forced it on them and it is everyday Aussies paying the price every day through sky-high housing costs, stretched public services, rising crime, and fragmenting communities.
The real sense I’m getting is that growing numbers of voters are crying out for a different way. One Nation is fully united on immigration. There is no divide. What is more, you can actually trust us to do what we say. Senator Hanson has spent a political lifetime being one of the only politicians in the country speaking common sense on the issue. There is absolutely no doubt that she believes what she says and, if given the chance, would implement what she says.
It’s too late for the Liberal Party. Trust is broken. One Nation would adopt an approach to immigration that would put Aussies first. Immigration would continue at modest levels and we would make sure that we get the people we actually need. Those who have the skills we need, the attitudes and the values.
