By Jo Nova
Walking in the Valley of Political Death, after Trump, Farage, and One Nation took all the risks and paved the way out of the Climate Swamp, the Liberals have finally been dragged into saying a definite “No” to Net Zero, including repealing the toxic Safeguard Mechanism.
What they haven’t done as a party is show leadership.
A few brave souls in the party have spoken out (like Andrew Hastie and Alex Antic) but the official Liberal policy, as explained last November, is still that lowering emissions is a worthy thing for no good reason other than being pagan weather controlling witchcraft. Do the Liberals still think that they should pander to the Paris agreement blob? That’s what they said last year.
The thing about “playing it safe”, as the Liberals have done, is that they were waiting for The People to figure out Net Zero was a pile of voodoo before they would risk being called names by the teenage girly monsters. The problem is that once the people realize Net Zero is an international parasite thriving on grift and graft, it’s about a nanosecond before they want a real leader who will take a blow-torch to the parasites. In that nanosecond they flip to the party of true leaders — the ones who took a position based on principle and led the way.
Until the Liberals take some risks and face down the namecalling vipers, the voters won’t believe they have the mojo to take on the whole cartel of Blob Bankers, Blob Bureaucrats, vested Blob industries and foreign interests who depend upon our climate-patsy compliance with the fantasy.
The Liberals need to start to sell the absurdities of “Net Zero” with conviction. The way to win the Teal seats is not to pander to the fantasy, it’s to mock it mercilessly.
Every day the Liberals wait for the polls to shift they are that much closer to extinction.
It was a good speech, but it could have been a great one…
Extracts of Angus Taylors’s Budget Reply Speech
Second, prioritising net zero and emissions reduction above all else has seen cheap, always-on power dismissed for expensive, sometimes-on, industrial-scale renewables – mainly sourced from offshore.
Power prices have soared – causing households to struggle, businesses to close, and industries to move offshore. Far from a future made in Australia, our future is being made abroad.
Australians have been fed the lie that our economy can function on solar, wind, and batteries alone. But the truth is fossil fuels continue to drive our economy and our prosperity.
In this Budget alone, Labor has $18 billion in new net zero spending. Labor’s net zero obsession is driving up inflation and destroying our economy. That’s why net zero must go.
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The Coalition will also abolish Labor’s great big carbon tax – the so-called Safeguard Mechanism.
This tax jacks up the price on essential building materials like steel, cement, and glass – driving up the cost of new homes.
If the Liberal Party have a rebellious spine, or courage under fire, it’s been excised. Those brave souls who spoke out when the costs of saying something was high were often pushed sideways or right out of the party (like Craig Kelly and Gerard Rennick, or Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson).
If the Liberals hadn’t tossed out people like this, they wouldn’t have wasted half a year voting for Susan Ley as a leader in a doomed holding pattern.
The party is a shadow of it’s former self. They did drop Net Zero targets last November, and promise to get rid of the Safeguard mechanism, but then they still thought the Paris Agreement was useful.