The Final Death Throes of the Australian Liberal Party

The Final Death Throes of the Australian Liberal Party. By Craig Kelly at Confidential Daily.

This week began with a historic Newspoll showing, for the first time ever, that One Nation had overtaken the Coalition. …

You’d think that faced with such a moment of existential peril, the Liberals would end their futile appeasement of the Left and focus on holding their coalition together by ensuring the Nationals stayed inside the tent. Instead, they did the exact opposite. …

The conservative vote is now fragmenting beyond repair for the Liberals: at just 16% for the Liberals versus roughly 32% combined for One Nation, the Nationals, and “Others,” it is over for the Liberal Party. …

Appeasement and cowardice:

This is not bad luck. It is the logical, inevitable consequence of cowardice, betrayal, and the steady ideological surrender of a party that long ago sold out its values.

Below are [some of] the twenty-two principal causes of death, from the 2013 landslide under Tony Abbott, a moment of triumph where the Coalition won 45.5% of the primary vote to the lowly 21% in the latest Newspoll.

  • The treacherous sabotage of Tony Abbott by his own cabinet colleagues immediately after the 2013 landslide.
  • Abbott’s fatal mistake: appeasing internal enemies by signing Australia up to the Paris Agreement in 2015 without any party-room debate, surrendering sovereignty to global climate hysteria for peace that never came.
  • The surrender to the ABC, allowing a taxpayer-funded propaganda arm of the Left to attack Liberal values unchallenged.
  • A corrupt preselection system that rewards factional hacks and exiles genuine conservatives, leaving the party hollowed out. …
  • Cowardice on education reform, letting children be indoctrinated by Gillard’s “cross-curriculum priorities” where they are taught to despise their country, culture, and history.
  • Failure to scrap Rudd’s “three flags policy,” embedding divisive identity politics and diminishing national unity. …
  • Scott Morrison’s betrayal of his 2019 election promises by committing to Net Zero without consultation, appeasing people who would never vote Liberal. …
  • Climate cowardice, choosing submission over truth and allowing alarmism to deindustrialise the nation and empower Communist China. …
  • Weaponising AHPRA to silence doctors and failing to oppose Queensland’s draconian laws imprisoning doctors for prescribing safe, effective, and proven COVID treatments. …
  • Silence on mass-migration, which is destroying social cohesion, crushing living standards, and pricing home ownership out of reach.
  • Failure to defend Senator Jacinta Price, a rare voice of truth, when she correctly called out Labor for using mass migration as a vote-harvesting exercise, and instead joining the pile-on for cheap photo-ops and cultural pandering.
  • Paralysis over the Mis- and Disinformation Bill, hiding under desks for weeks to sniff the breeze instead of standing up for freedom immediately.
  • Timid opposition to the Hate Speech Bill, which should have been condemned outright as an authoritarian attack on democracy. …

More than half of former Liberal supporters now support other parties. They didn’t leave, the party left them.

The Liberals bent the knee to the ABC, big bureaucracy, activist elites, and the leftist inner-city non-productive class; voters who would never support the party under any circumstances. It betrayed its base, surrendered its culture, and torched its credibility.

Obvious, but it needs saying. The Liberal Party was established by Menzies for the forgotten people, the silent majority, to counter the New Class. But over the decades the New Class infiltrated and corrupted the Liberal Party, to the extent that half the Liberal Party are members of the New Class and too often the Liberal Party does the bidding of the New Class.

The life cycle turns, the butterfly dies, and a caterpillar must be born. The party that emerges to be the main opposition the New Class in Australia will probably be One Nation, or perhaps the Nationals.

UPDATE: Leaving the sinking ship: National Party pulls out of Coalition agreement.

Asked directly if the Coalition was going to split, Mr Littleproud said: “Yes. There’s no other position.”

He added: “Our party room has made it clear that we cannot be part of a shadow ministry under Sussan Ley… We sit by ourselves.”

hat-tip Stephen Neil