One Nationâs latest recruit is Cory Bernardi.
They deserve each other. Itâs a match made in a cesspit.
The talk over here is that Antic might be heading that way too.
Too many Antics for mine.
Bernardi is a f*cking nutbar.
So is Antic.
Itâs funny that having driven the Coalition into utter unelectability by pushing far right policies on what few pathetic Lib progressives remain, people like Antic and Joyce are now jumping ship leaving wreckage behind them. And Iâm not sure how itâll work. Even if One Nation had any record of actually being able to hold together as a coherent political party, which they donât, isnât their whole schtick all about being a plucky minor party of outsider and authentic blue collar Australian everyday dinky-di racists, separate from the failed major parties? And now theyâre poaching some of the worst careerists in politics?
Reform are having occasional spasms the same problem in the UK at the moment - lots of the more pathetic Tories are trying to sidle into Reform to save their own electoral skins, but these are people that the electorate already know and despise. It does water down the whole âgrass roots driven new force in politicsâ propaganda line, if youâve got people as legendarily corrupt and time-serving as Joyce as the new faces of the party.
Like clockwork, every time a Tory defects to Reform there is a historical tweet for it. Either a tweet from them criticising Farage, or one from Farage calling them incompetent etc.
I think itâs pretty funny that the bulk of the âwetsâ got run out of the party and others then decide âyeah, but I still donât match the few remaining â Iâm outta hereâ.
Iâm awaiting for new âit was riggedâ conspiracy theory when there are no One Nation candidates running for the lower house.
the crucial (aka funniest) stat is how many lower house, state or federal, phon reps were still with the party at the end of their first elected term
Bernardi. Poor PHON. No one deserves that.
While I do like most Greens policy, I donât agree that much with anything some of their luminaries say, but this comment caught my eye and gets my furious agreement.
Greens communications spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young described Bannonâs claims as an attack on Australiaâs elections.
âSeriously, when is either the Labor or Liberal parties going to stand up to the right-wing US rot and defend Australiaâs democracy,â she said.
Big day for us mortgage holders. Bad news awaits I fear. If the RBA ups rates by 0.25% as expected itâll be the shortest interest rate cutting cycle ever in Australia (outside of the GFC which as an anomaly). Somebody got it wrong - Jim or Michele.
Even with an increase interest rates are still low.
ok boomer
does anybody think in their wildest dreams that ON can ever win enough seats to form government ? so why would the liberals even consider drifting further to the right to try to grab the ON vote? insanity
now is the time for a new center right party , the liberals and nationals party are forever permanently cooked if they chase the one nation voters.
in this case the polls for ON are not indicative of how people would actually vote , they are only an answer in a questionnaire where you have such limited choices and the option to choose the LNP stinks so bad , that is the only reason ON have so called surged
Beat me to it. In historical terms theyâre low and probably at normal levels. Issue is some mortgage holders borrowed too much and also wouldnât have factored in rate rises in the short / medium term.
Fair enough.
Maybe if interest rates were 18%, then property prices might actually fall instead of a policy that encourages them to escalate to keep us Boomers happy.
I donât.
A couple of things though. If I was confidentially asked to contribute to one of these polls and forced to select a party, Iâd select ON and park my vote there for time being as it currently stands.
Reasons are:
- I have lost all confidence and trust in the current Liberal Party. It is rudderless, has no policy agenda and doesnât reflect my views anymore. Theyâre distracted and more interested in internal games than being a relevant opposition
- ON is the only party on conservative side committed and strongly talking about cutting overseas migration to seriously address cost of living and things like inflation and housing affordability
If ON continues to poll well, it will possibly continue to recruit a higher calibre of conservative politicians whoâre able to give this mob some more cache and relevance.
Their support will drop. They wonât be 25%+ come next ejection. They certainly wonât be at 6% though which shows the structural shift in the political arena as Kos Somaris has pointed out this week.