The last Liberal progressive standing is as stupid as the troglodyte rump. Simon Birmingham:
It’s no time to be a party struggling with women, migrants, urban or younger voters. Not if you want to win. Yet there is also an opportunity for Liberals with voters less loyal and more willing to switch, if the reasons are compelling. The Liberal challenge is to make those who have turned away think again.
…The Liberal Party should stand up for all families and all that matters to them, regardless of their construct or backgrounds. I live what many would consider a traditional, conservative life: wife, two children and a mortgage. Yet among my friends I count people in complicated step-parenting arrangements, hard-working single parents and same-sex parents. So long as they love and provide for their children, contribute to society and are good friends, I love them all equally. I don’t judge them and nor do most other (or former) Liberal voters.
The perceptions of intolerance created by some hasn’t just cost the votes of those who feel judged, it has hurt the Liberal Party among all people who reject nastiness or divisiveness. We must be the party of inclusion in which all families who contribute and aspire see relevance.
So, the LNP needs to be nicer to a diverse population if it wants to win.
This is the precise opposite of what is required. The LNP can’t win by going soft. Rather, it needs to become nasty, or ruthless, in a different way.
Instead of embracing various victim groups, the LNP needs to embrace Australia. To do so it needs to:
- Commit to lower immigration (100k per annum) to protect living standards that include higher wages more affordable housing and less crush-loaded amenities.
- Commit to national interest reforms, liberal market structures, that boost productivity and secure the industrial base.
- Commit to an unwavering China hawkishness to protect, gosh darn it, liberalism.
- Commit to social policies in the national interest: including Voice, women’s rights etc.
If the LNP had this platform today it would be having a field day as Albo’s idiots gutted workers, crush-loaded public services, bent the knee in Beijing, undercooked reform, and overdid fragmenting social policy.
Why this is not obvious to the LNP, or all of Canberra for that matter, is a collective miasma of perverse proportions.
Or a corporate bribe so large that it has produced willful blindness.
