Liberal Party divided over future direction as Angus Taylor plots right-wing political shift

Let the libs and ONP fight it out for the dregs of society.

The few moderates left in the Liberals need to just accept that they’re in a far right party and either defect to the Labor party / become Teals or go independent. They’re never going to have sway anymore and each election is just going to be the party posturing about nuclear power and kerbed immigration, without outlining any meaningful rollouts or policy, because those two promises are smokescreens to keep coal and gas going as long as possible and give lip service to racism, whilst doing nothing to manage immigration, because their donors love the extra customers and lower labour cost.

The party of Gorton, Menzies and Fraser is gone. The Australian Labor party is closer to what the Fraser Liberal party was than the current Liberal party.

Angus Taylor and right wing extremism. Name a more iconic duo.

Yes, keep believing in the myth of your conservative “silent majority”, you bigoted dolts.

Honestly, this might be the best outcome we could hope for. If they rebranded themselves as moderates there’s a risk they might actually get into power, then they could implement their conservative agenda. Fortunately it sounds like they might be too stupid to do that, and will instead lurch to the right to compete with the Nats & ON as The Party of Rural Queensland.

Racist dog-whistling only works when the towns you’re hammering don’t see the positive effects of multiculturalism.

How many people work with people from different backgrounds and see no harm in what they’re doing? This is a decreasing share and it’s not enough to win elections to tell people “be afraid of them!”

Add to that Angus is so heavily in the pocket of big business that a vote for him sends Australia careening down the same awful future.

He is unelectable and that is if he makes it to an election, which who bloody knows seeing the rabble on the right.

If i recall, Peter Dutton trying the right-wing playbook (didn’t he call it unapologetically Australian or something?) coincides quite neatly with the time the LNP went from neck-and-neck with Labor to polling free-fall.

So, yeah, let’s try that again guys.

The real enemy of the Liberal Front of the National Party is the National Front of the Liberal Party.

Splitters!

The Victorian Libs in particular really hate Australians with Chinese and Indian backgrounds, even more than they loath renters.

Why is this relevant? Angus is signalling that he wants the federal branch to ramp up the same racist crap to add to their culture war chest. No wonder Sky television is so happy right now.

Sure Angus, cause that’s worked out so well so far.

Millennial voters grew up with Howard on the TV, but have since really learned that the Howard era was really, really bad for ~us~.

Since then, LNP leadership has gone from bad, to worse, cringe, Voldemort, laughable and then, who?

Each time, they set the tone with “We’ve gotta return to core principles and values, earn the trust back, blah blah blah”

There are two generations now, being asked to “Trust me bro”.

Trust you with what, lol.

Couldn’t even install the internet properly.

Party is dead.

I’d love to see the teals band together as a coalition with a charter to retain much of their independence.

We are more likely to see a new party of coalition form to fill in the moderate gap than for lib/nats to form government with how far right they are now

Isn’t right wing politics just hate politics

The LNP loses two elections in a row because of their lack of action on climate change and protecting the environment, and after an internal review they decide that moving further to the extreme right will make them more electable.

Albo must be loving this.

>”They want to see us stand up for things like the flag and the anthem and the constitution and Australia Day and our Anzac tradition because they see in us, or they hope to see in us, a patriotic Australian party.”

Truly have their finger on the pulse of what keeps most Australians up at night. Christ on a fucking bike…

Given that Gina is only too happy to support One Nation, why don’t these right wing fuckwits just decamp and join them?

Why on earth do they want to stand under a banner that reads “Liberal” when they’re the furthest thing from the literal definition of the word?