You may have heard I’ve been working as a barista, driving a school bus, and driving a truck in regional NSW. After careers in the military and academia, the change has been a breath of fresh air. It’s also been an eye-opener about the born-to-rule class and their attitudes that really grate on ordinary, hard-working Australians.

Ordinary Australians have had a gutful of our political class. They want the whole political-class structure burnt to the ground. Not our system, but the self-serving support our political class gives itself through the Uniparty and the traditional media.

Nowhere has this class been more active in defending itself than against the rise of One Nation.

Some time after Pauline Hanson uttered the infamous phrase ‘Please explain?’ to a journalist in response to a question about the meaning of the word ‘xenophobia’, she did the most Australian of things. She adopted it as a catchphrase.

It is such a useful phrase. Here are some important ways it can be used.

Anthony Albanese will bring integrity to Australian politics. Please explain?

Chris Bowen never thought green hydrogen was a big deal. Please explain?

Anthony Albanese allegedly didn’t even know he was a member of a golf club that received government funds. Please explain?

The Minister for Transport, Catherine King, received a gift of lifetime platinum Frequent Flyer status from Qantas. Please explain?

Chris Bowen can work part-time as President of Negotiations for COP31, costing taxpayers millions. Please explain?

The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) found that Sport and Communications Minister Anika Wells breached rules on four family-related trips. Please explain?

The Centre for Public Integrity report card gave Labor failing grades on several transparency measures, including ‘jobs for mates’. Please explain?

I was discussing the rise of One Nation with Professor David Flint recently. He has supported One Nation in these pages in recent times. We were discussing how Pauline Hanson is the real deal. Yet she is an ‘outsider’. Professor Flint suggested I would have some interesting insights into the political ideas of ordinary Australians.

It’s interesting that Professor Flint, who is also the National Convenor of the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, supports One Nation. Please explain?

A common stoic approach adopted by the late Queen Elizabeth II was the adage, ‘Never complain, never explain.’ It is an approach that has regrettably been lost on her offspring. But the idea is that you do your thing and the sum of your efforts speaks, rather than trying to please the daily news cycle.

It’s a simple portrayal of Aesop’s fable, The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey. I was taught this as a child.

A father and son are taking a donkey to market to sell. As they walk along the road leading the donkey, some passers-by snicker that these two have a donkey but they are walking. They both ride the donkey. ‘Look at these two overloading the donkey.’ The father rides, the son walks. ‘Look at the old man making his son walk.’ The son rides. ‘Look at him making his father walk.’ In desperation, they tie the donkey to a pole and carry it. As they approach the market, they cross a river. The donkey kicks itself free and drowns.

The moral of the story is ‘he who pleases all, pleases none’. It means you need to stick to your guns, regardless of the critics. As the late, great monarch might have put it, ‘Never complain, never explain.’

Current primary school students could tell you whose ‘unceded’ lands they are on, but I bet they’ve never heard of Aesop.

Pauline Hanson said as much recently. She also said that the idea of generations of Australians living in public housing was not ideal.

Yet the media went on a rampage. Mind you, most of this stuff was from ages ago. One media commentator even said the quiet part out loud. Someone had been sitting on Pauline Hanson’s comments for months, waiting for the right time.

Speaking of saying the quiet part out loud, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas recently implied that we need immigrants to do the dirty work in Australia. Not raising our standard of living through increased productivity, decreased government spending, or university research that achieves something tangible. Please explain?

One Nation is the only political party that isn’t taking the mickey out of ordinary Australians. It is challenging the prioritisation of the decolonisation agenda in our education system. It is challenging the idea of cradle-to-grave welfare with generations relying on the government instead of becoming self-reliant. It is challenging the idea that we cannot survive without immigration in the style that has turned the UK into a nightmare.

It’s not too late, but the pressure on One Nation from all quarters of the Establishment is immense. The pressure is how we got here in the first place.

There is only one course of action if One Nation is to act on the wishes of ordinary Australians. Please never explain.

Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is the Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. If you’d like to support his writing, please shout him a drink over at Donorbox.