Opposing the uniparty: Conservatives want a voice. Why choose a whisper? By Flat White in The Spectator.

State Liberal parties in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and (until recently) Western Australia have prioritised the ‘Ley’ model. That is a ‘nice’ inoffensive centrist woman pitched at the Teal voters and the ‘modern’ electorate.

Some state leaders of the Liberal Party — electoral success eludes them all:

Kellie Sloan in NSW (ex-ABC)

Ashton Hurn in South Australia

Jess Wilson in Victoria

Libby Mettam in Western Australia, until March 2025

 

No one is saying conservatives won’t vote for a woman. After all, the Liberals are being wiped out by Pauline Hanson and still go weak at the knees for the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.

It’s the type of woman that matters.

Teals like their women rich and dripping in an environmental saviour complex. Bonus points if they sound like a private school teacher delivering a lecture on political correctness.

Conservatives prefer their women scary as shit. They want them to casually break balls, injure the egos of Labor unionists, and ruthlessly subvert the gender privilege of the Teals. These voters want warriors, not appeasers.

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In Pauline Hanson, they do not see a fish and chip shop owner, they see a woman who routinely throws creatures into hot oil and serves their corpses up to the highest bidder.

Nothing about any of the Liberal women currently standing for state leadership screams dangerous. … They are not going to give answers on Sky News Australia that make the party elite reach for their pearls. These leaders are meticulously controlled by the party machine as if they had been printed alongside the How-To-Vote-Cards. …

The people are voting orange to send a giant F-U to the establishment because they are tired of having nation-changing decisions made without their consent.

Conservatives want a voice. Why would they choose a whisper?