Re-coalition. Lo and behold.
Well. It’s been 2 day since I predicted the Coalition would come back together.
I thought atleast a fortnight. You know, between pay packets for the Nats no longer getting their shadow portfolio supplements. Principle my arse.
Like the the saying goes … it’s only a trough if the Nats aren’t in it.
Coalition Split - It Won't Last
Call me a cynic, but the Coalition split won’t last. Espacially given the baubles of office. The salary supplements, the extra staff, the bigger offices, the titles and extra perquisites.
Highly likely it was Barnaby Joyce’s return from sick leave.
It may be presented as a capitulation by Sussan Ley, but I somehow doubt it.
And the 4 policy principles over which the Nats drew the line in the sand. They were stupid when announced and the are stupid going forward.
Regional Australia Future Fund - to borrow $20 billion, on which $0.9 bilion of interest would be payable, just so the Nat could sprinkle favours in their electorates, not in regional Australia, is not just idiotic policy, not just idiotic economics, but borderline corruption. It shoud never have beeb proposed and it should not be allowed to stand.
Forcing Telecom Companies to Improve Regional Services - this is basically forcing Telstra, Optus and Vodaphone, all private entities, to build uneconomic towers in remote areas. And who would pay for this? It would either be passed on to all consumers through higher prices or through higher taxes. This despite the already horrible economic faiure that is the NBN. Meanwhille, StarLink has and Amazon’s Kuiper will build a low orbit satelite network to which mobile phones will connect.
Tax Payer Built and Owned Nuclear - Yes. Always a good idea for governments to build and own stuff. Like NBN, Snowy 2.0, and that road in Victoria. It would be one thing to propose the removal of the prohibition on nuclear and to offer subsidies equivalent to those given to intermittents, but no. The agrarian socialist cum communist reflex stands out.
Supermarket Divestiture - Ofcourse. Central planning writ large. This could have been demanded by Bob Katter would would love for a return to regulated food markets and the associated higher food costs and lower food production. Is there any evidence of anything wrong? No. But who cares. this is the Nationas showing their principles. You know of central planning and government control.
That the Coalition agreed to these idiotic policies in the first place shows how far they have fallen and how much they have been intellectually colonised by the National Party.
But more important that the Principles of the National Party members are the pay packets of the Nationa Party members and their Young Nats staffers.
They want the shadow cabinet positions. They need the shadow cabinet positions. They must have the shadow cabinet positions.
Policy will always be secondary.
Pity they made up. I was hoping a new truly right wing party would emerge in Australia. Reform Australia perhaps? Now we will be presented with the same old bxllshxt policies from the same old bxllshxit politicians. It's all theatre but not Shakespearean level, more like slapstick comedy.
"is not just idiotic policy, not just idiotic economics, but borderline corruption"
I live in a traditional Nats electorate, and I would not describe it as borderline!
Cheers