The dominant political class is reeling, eyes spinning, at the success of One Nation in the seat of Farrer. It’s been gloomy, depressing times for conservatives, but Farrer has given us hope.
I watched the ABC broadcast of the count, presided over by David Spears and Patricia Karvelas. The shameless bias and the inability to competently analyse what was happening should be embarrassing for the ABC. But it won’t be. The ABC is full of woke, feminist types like Karvelas, but on this occasion, she shone in her perversity.
Despite a graph filling the entire television screen, showing a drop in the coalition support almost equal to the rise in One Nation support, she had to blather on about Angus Taylor being smashed because he preferenced One Nation and didn’t follow Sussan Ley’s plan to bring the Coalition back to the ‘sensible centre’. Instead, he disastrously aligned himself with the ‘hard right’. Karvelas has absolutely no idea what it means to be a philosophical conservative – and it’s likely she never will.
What is obvious to everyone except the ABC and the woke bubble they’re in, the Coalition lost their support to One Nation because the people thought One Nation represented their values, and the Coalition didn’t. I’m typical. I’ve always been a Liberal voter – that is, conservative – from the time I developed a political consciousness. Until now.
The two most pressing issues for conservatives are migration and the Aboriginal industry. The Coalition has failed to deal with these two issues as a conservative party should. The difference is that One Nation has. And they’ll get my vote until the Coalition regains its true conservative values and perspective.
The Coalition was always going to get smashed in Farrer. It would have been worse if they, as silly Karvelas wanted, had steered to the so-called ‘sensible centre’. The sensible centre for a conservative is another version of Labor or, even worse, TEAL. Angus Taylor took the right course in the circumstances.
He showed he wants to put his party on the long road back. That’s the start. Now he must hold the line and develop the right (conservative) policies to deal with migration and the reinverted white-Aboriginals who insult the majority of Australians by telling them they are not legitimate on the land their ancestors fought for, some spilling their blood. Could there be a greater insult?
If the Coalition is not prepared to shut down the Aboriginal industry, I’m sure One Nation is. And, for that, they’ll have my vote.