Can Chicken Chalmers save Labor?

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Lol. This must be a joke.

Jim Chalmers has launched a pre-election campaign blitz in vulnerable NSW Hunter and central coast seats, as he answers the calls of Labor MPs concerned that surging support for Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese’s unpopularity will cost them their seats.

After high-level meetings with senior Trump administration officials in Washington DC, Dr Chalmers arrived directly into Williamtown on Thursday morning to campaign with Hunter MP Dan Repacholi in the coalmining towns of Singleton and Kurri Kurri, before joining Robertson MP Gordon Reid in Somersby.

Amid consternation in Labor ranks over the Prime Minister’s ability to cut through and sell the government’s economic narrative, ALP sources say Dr Chalmers must play a central role in the campaign to help marginal seat-holders stave off Coalition challenges across the country.

Jim Chalmers is the most destructive treasurer in a century.

Through his immigration and energy blundering, this guy has singlehandedly annihilated Australian living standards and loaded the entire economy into a taxpayer-supported spastic bus.

Here are the charts. Crushed living standards.

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All by ourselves.

While the entire economy is a ward of the state.

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Living in a spastic centre.

As he taxes the living daylights out of you.

Labor has no economic story to tell and Jim “Chicken” Chamlers is the man most directly responsible.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.