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It’s all a Murdoch plot? 

The almost angelic face that The Age has had on its online paper of Peta Credlin would suggest that butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, but ask Phil Davis about what he thinks about Credlin and I’d suggest Phil would say Peta is far from angelic and while she might not melt butter she’d probably pour hot lava on anyone that stood in her way. See, it appears that there are those within the Liberal Party that want uncle Rupert to hold sway over the party and there are others that want the party to side with truth justice and the way of the leftists, ie The Age, but no matter who wants what this is all music to the ears of Jacinta Allan!

Phil Davis, the state liberal party president has suggested in an interview with The Age that there are those within the party that have a hotline to Credlin and that the Murdoch empire is pushing for things to head the way in which they want and that’s nowhere near the left. That’s not to suggest anyone in the party wants to steer away from the right rather they want different version of the right.

Davis believes the Murdoch hit squad want the party to team up with Aunty Pauline and One Nation which Davis and his camp are absolutely against believing the Libs can win in their own right come the November election. Now that remains to be seen but what is true is that if the Libs can’t get on the same page and soon it’ll be Allan that becomes the first female elected premier of Victoria.

The whole Moira Deeming saga recently came back again to haunt the Libs via some members of the party’s in vain attempt to ditch Moira. Some within the party had lined up a candidate that did actually beat Deeming in preselection but then had to drop out because he’d been a character reference for a convicted pedophile. Davis admits that the selection process of certain potential candidates wasn’t what it should have been, but did say background checks were done by a party backed intelligence company. We’d suggest that process might need some updating? Regardless of the process it left egg on the faces of the whole party because it had tried to shaft one of their own and failed. It also saw a party member in Louise Staley offer her own opinions on Deeming’s initial preselection loss, which was along the lines of good riddance, not exactly a unified message now was it?

It’s interesting to read Davis suggest that Murdoch press wants to make inroads into the state Liberal Party and force a union with One Nation. While One Nation is possibly the future of Australian politics the Libs are dying a slow death and moving towards irrelevance so maybe it’s a plot from the Murdoch empire to bring one nation into the fray but it’s a risky move asking them to get onboard with the Libs.

You kind of think that Murdoch would think a bit more outside the box of trying to control the dysfunctional liberal party or at least wanting to have a hand in its future. But I remember being told by a senior member of the Murdoch team some time ago that they have zero interest in changing the direction of their news service, which I thought was pretty short term thinking but what do I know?! So maybe Credlin and Davis will shake hands and make up and if it is true that Murdoch, senior or junior is pulling the strings on the direction of the Liberal Party Phil wants to watch out because the Murdochs rarely lose a fight.

Is Trump the Libs way back?

Could it be that Trump is doing the Liberal party of Australia a massive favour?! Now while One Nation is now the leading political party in Queensland according to new polling data they still don’t really have any evidence of how they’re going to change the country. Yes ok, we get the whole cut migration, ditch net zero, ban the burka stuff but where are the actual policies? Hanson is a big fan of Trump and while she hasn’t been out waving the flag of team America lately her commitment to the Don and another Trump supporter in Gina Rheinhart is unquestionably going to bite them all in the arse.

As global supply chains continue to be impacted by Trumps war on everyone support for the Don is running out. Countries are turning their backs on the US as are political parties with the Libs being one of them. Recent criticism of the Trump administration from the federal liberal party has seen it criticised as being Labor lite but really it’s the right move.

One Nation’s jump in popularity is a direct result of political dissatisfaction and with the Libs at an all time low in their popularity they need to start a rebuild. That rebuild is getting away from the right of US politics and offering a new version of conservatism in Australia. One that does believe in freedom, entrepreneurial spirit, less government control, but also that Australia needs its own identity away from the super powers that dictate and or try to control global affairs. 

The Libs need policy and strategy to show why they’re a) not Labor lite and b) why they’re a much better option than One Nation. As long as One Nation continue to run with zero policies and back Trump the Libs have a chance to reestablish themselves as the genuine alternative to Labor. But the Libs to start thinking about their future and taking it to

Labor because if they miss this opportunity and Hanson does start dropping policy documents that voters do get behind the Libs are indeed finished.

Deeming wins preselection of stupidity 

Well Moira Deeming wins preselection for the Liberal Party after no one ended up standing against her and really two things need to happen on Tuesday morning. The first is that Phil Davies need to resign or be sacked and the second is that Louise Staley needs to apologise for her social media post or resign and if she doesn’t do anything then she should have her party membership cancelled.

I mean seriously how more dysfunctional can a political party be?! The Libs obviously wanted Deeming gone but fucked the whole thing up! They brought in an Indian bloke with serious credibility issues that no one did due diligence on, they then ran a second vote and tried to get other people to run against her but bounced one of them for not filling in the paper work properly? And the other pulled out! I mean seriously!

Jess Wilson is I’m sure trying her hardest to change the party but short of walking into the party room with a machine gun or tearing strips off the party itself you have to wonder how this absolute rabble gets into power. The only way the Libs actually knock Labor off is if they have a Steven Bradbury moment, meaning Labor end up being so toxic and so shit that not even Daniel Andrews would vote for them! 

How did the Libs get here? I mean seriously they are supposed to be a professional political party that can rise above the noise of their varying opinions unify and show why they can be the alternative government. Right now though they are literally handing Labor everything they need to continue to criticise them and show why they’re unelectable. It’s staggering! I am sure there are things within the party we don’t know and that are major issues but look at Labor! Love or hate them outside the party room they are a united force that is unwavering in its support of the common good! The Libs? Well they look like a bunch of rats in a sewer.

Victoria deserves a hell of a lot better than what’s it’s currently being dished up, but until the Libs can offer a solution to their infighting Victoria is Labor town and things will only get worse before they get any better.

Recession by September?

Are bank economists the new epidemiologists? Remember when all those science people were let loose on the pandemic? It was lockdown for months on end and we should be wearing full burkas for a year to slow the spread! Some of what they came up with was fair but most of it was absolute rubbish! So when the bank economists have their moment in the sun as Trump continues to be an unhinged maniac be assured the end of the world is nigh.

It is true that if we see negative growth in September we will be in a recession but are we going to get there? Given petrol prices are through the roof and despite economists, podcasters and the media all saying the RBA will hike rates how can they? Can you imagine the RBA sticking rates up at their next meeting? Yes anyone on $300,000 plus a year can but for us mere mortals it would be a catastrophe!

Down here on planet let’s storm the barricades things are tough and not getting any easier. Not only is petrol at record levels we are unquestionably going to see grocery prices go up because hey who wants the supermarkets to miss out on their profits! There’s absolutely no empathy from the big supermarkets is there? There’s no hey we’re all in this together, no, we’ve got you and we’re freezing prices on a range of products, nope, instead it’s let’s sell out all the Jerry cans and then fuck the minions on pricing of groceries at our stores! 

Albo and Chalmers cut the fuel excise to keep prices a bit lower, but how about bashing the supermarket next boys? Or maybe picking up the phone to that imbecile Trump!? We have said before and will say again, Mark Carney was right! We need to look elsewhere for our key suppliers and resources because Trump is not coming to save anyone!

It is unquestionably true now that the high petrol prices are yes a small hangover from before the invasion of Iran but primarily as a result of a maniac trying to take over the world! In these hard economic times Australia has been found wanting on a number of issues and because of them and Trump things will get worse before they get any better but what a great time to be an economist at a bank, time to shine boys and girls!

How can the Libs really win in November?

I know as you get older you become more cynical about the world, but not even the most optimistic person could confidently say that the Liberal Coalition will win the state election in November. Who would? Theo libs have a 15 year old with a law degree running the party, they have a 150 year old running the party room, they have a bloke who wanted to cut a number of female candidates out as President and they members of their own party making posts on social media saying good riddance when certain MP’s lose their preselection bids.

But wait! There’s more! Not only are there the aforementioned issues the party is divided on its direction, divided on certain people being preselected and then divided on court action over issues of how people within the party have been dealt with. Everywhere you look within the Liberal Party you see division, you see people who aren’t on the same page and you see a party that can barely run its own affairs let alone a state with hundreds of billions dollars of debt! How did they get this bad!!?

Look it may be the case that the Libs crush Labor because people have had enough of Bendigo Barbie and her minions of bullshit, or it might be the case that the Libs team up with One Nation and do preference deal to chuck out Allan, plus with a local publican nominating for Allan’s seat she could well be out regardless of the main result, but really?

A lot of things need to go right for the Libs to win come November and right now they seem utterly clueless in how to win people over to vote for them. What it will need is a preference deal with One nation, a massive swing away from Labor based on them being crap and people saying we want a change. To get that done Labor need to lose on a scale not often seen, but it’s definitely possible, will it happen though? I’d like to say yes but right now voting for one or the other isn’t that different instead what we need is change, change that brings back some optimism and hope to the state, but regardless I won’t hold my breath.