Reform or wither away, Liberal Party. By James Allen in The Spectator.
Well, well, well. Remember all the so-called Liberal ‘moderates’ (aka Labor-lite types) who told us that the party had to chase the inner-city Teal seats? These were the same geniuses who assured us that immigration, as in promising massive cuts to our current world’s highest per capita legal immigration regime, was not a winning election issue.
These were likewise the types fighting tooth-and-nail to keep as big a commitment as possible to net-zero-type policies, including massive renewable energy subsidies that are enriching some well-connected people. This, despite Australia having gone from the democratic world’s cheapest electricity costs when I got here in 2005 to today’s near-highest costs.
That, along with a bloated public service, tanking productivity, sky-high taxes and mass immigration, has delivered falling per capita GDP in seven of the last eight quarters. Be clear, Australia has seen the biggest drop in living standards in the OECD. …
Which political party is responsible?
Just about every bad policy setting now in place was first delivered to this country by the Coalition — including renewables, net zero, big immigration, big taxes, big spending, caving in on any commitment to free speech, woeful appointments pretty much across the board, way too low defence spending, the list just goes on and on.
All Labor has done is come in and supercharge all these woeful policy settings. …
The first poll of 2026 by DemosAU:
Team Albo has dropped to 29 per cent primary support. That’s bad.
But the Coalition is at 23 per cent. That’s catastrophic.
And here’s the kicker. One Nation is also at 23 per cent primary support, the same as the Libs and Nationals combined. That is dire news for Australia’s main, established right-of-centre political party. …
When DemosAU ran a hypothetical contest between Labor and One Nation, it used the preference flows from the only seat at the last election where this was the contest. That delivered a 50-50 result. But that is just guesswork wrapped in guesswork inside more guesswork. Nor will One Nation have anything like uniform support across the states. So, seat tallies are unknowable. …
Why vote for Labor-Lite?
All that said, is this, just possibly, the beginning of a long, slow goodbye for a Liberal party that has jettisoned its base, throwing out long-time supporters who detest the lefty, ‘moderate’ direction the party has taken? …
The value-free advisors around the Liberal leadership have long known this and just assume longtime conservative Liberals are mugs who ‘have nowhere else to go’. Well, they do now. …
One Nation is clear and consistent:
One Nation has made it plain that, first, it thinks the climate change racket and renewables subsidies are a rort and will ditch the lot.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, it patently opposes mass immigration and will end it. Voters trust One Nation on this one and rightly don’t trust the Coalition.
Third, One Nation is forthrightly against all things woke (DEI, affirmative action quotas, attacks on free speech, pretending all cultures are equal, bizarre Western self-loathing, hatred of Israel, and more, all falling under this rubric). …
Perhaps a new Liberal leader and a repudiation of Labor-lite?
Maybe a prompt switch to an obvious conservative leader might win back some support.
The problem is we’ve all seen what the Black Hand Gang of Labor Lites in the party can do to a conservative Liberal prime minister. No promise is safe from these cuckoos.
So, if there’s a change of leader, that person will have to show us that the so-called moderates have been firmly and (if I may say so) brutally put in their place. Forget any 50-50 doling out of shadow cabinet spots. Stand up to the ABC and its loathsome worldview.
And then, any new Coalition leader had better come out hard on immigration, energy and wokery.
Otherwise, as Raymond Chandler put it, this could be ‘the long goodbye’ for the Libs. And the continued rise of One Nation.
The globalists have colonized he Liberal Party for far too long. Time to deport them.