Why the Liberal Party is Out of Touch. By Flat White in The Spectator.

Too many within its structure are privileged, comfortable, and isolated from the consequences of decades of bad policies.

How many days do those sitting in positions of power spend on trains and buses in the city? How many walk home at night? How many choose between their aircon and a cup of coffee? How many have cancelled their private health insurance or moved their children into a state school? How many have quit their generational farm, finally broken by a looming wind farm or sunk by operational costs? How many will be eternal renters in tiny boxes, living in constant fear that the next government tax hike will leave them on the street? How many have been turned away from banks and left standing in a queue behind dozens of foreign workers? …

With generational staffers at the helm of the Liberals and the ranks of power populated by a narrow circle of well-connected individuals, it is hard to see how they can find traction over the widening divide of class hardship. And look, this structure used to be desirable in the Howard years. Politics revelled in its elitism. But that is a trapping of wider prosperity. A prosperity squandered.

One Nation — the members are the focus group:

One Nation is full of people living this every day. Gina Rinehart might have gifted One Nation a plane, but the people advising, working the offices, volunteering, and running as candidates are all battlers. They don’t need focus groups. They are the focus group.

It’s much the same for the Labor Party too. The ruling class is visibly failing, especially over immigration and electricity prices.