Oct 21: Liberal Party Gone
The people of Wentworth voted for a fine woman who will make an excellent and dignified parliamentarian, assuming she is declared the winner.
(1) lurching militant right wing minority extremism;(2) ludicrous government instability;(3) anti-scientific energy policy (don't mention the C-word);(4) deposing a Prime Minister who, despite his disruptive "colleagues", had positioned the Coalition to be competitive at the next election;(5) "wrecking ball" politicians Abbott, Dutton and Joyce who looked back at the unstable Rudd-Gillard years - and instead of seeing a warning they saw a template for their own destructive ambitions;(6) insane (and frequently ugly) media bias in the form of Hadley, Bolt, Jones, Murdoch and Sky News;(7) Coalition Senators who all voted for Hansen's white-supremacist motion;
(8) a male dominated Liberal Party which long ago discarded it's own core principles - and even has difficulty understanding that the days of religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws are over.
One of the excuses for deposing Turnbull was the Longman by-election result. He was denounced by many for what was actually a below average 2PP by-election swing of only 4% against the government. So what will a (record breaking) 20% swing in Wentworth mean for the ultra-conservatives now? Yet another party room leadership spill?
The right and centre factions in the Liberal Party used to co-exist in peace, recognising that the Labor Party was the main threat. Since Abbott took centre stage a decade ago he has stirred up animosity between colleagues, leaving the Party untenable for both factions. The ultra-conservatives want to claim the Liberal Party for themselves but if voters want to believe in facism, white supremacy and hard-line ultra-conservatism - then they could just as easily vote for Hansen.
Traditional liberals - who were disgusted with the way the Liberal Party has behaved - found a moderate independent to vote for. They could no longer vote for a Liberal Party (which has lost connection with the liberal ideology that is still contained in its core platform) and so they deserted it to vote for a moderate independent who is seemingly quite.......liberal.
