Where to now for the Liberal Party?
Certainly electoral success certainly does not lie in the direction Tony Abbott and Nick Minchin are taking it, which is more less back to the middle years of the Howard Government, before even John Howard started to understand that Australians wanted something done about climate change.
Tony Abbott will probably boost the Liberal vote off its current lows, simply because it has fallen about as far as it can without eating directly into the Liberal base. Abbott, like the man he replaces, is a conviction politician. Voters like politicians who stand for something clear. But of course Abbott’s problem is that his convictions are deeply offensive to many voters, particularly women.
Liberal moderates, who have lost their leader and their position on climate change, are now in a very dark place politically, because many of them are on the front line, in the marginal seats that will be the first to fall when Abbott leads his party to a smashing defeat against Kevin Rudd. The likes of Nick Minchin, safe in his Senate eyrie, and Bronwyn Bishop, concreted into a safe seat, will survive the looming electoral massacre, free to drag the party even further to the Right after the next election.
This is a disastrous day for the Liberal Party and, ultimately, the quality of our Federal political life.
I agree that people want something done on climate change, but not at the cost of Jobs (their own) especially and 60% increase on electric cost.
60% of people are waking up to this in the last poll, they want to know how much it will cost them
To delay the ETS to have a look at the cost of it is what people wants and what the Liberal want to deliver
We cannot and should notjust accept Rudd’s word for it. This ETS needs to be studied vigorously before any vote can be taken on it. All Rudd wants is to noted as one of the world’s first to act on “climate change” and nothing else.
Well done to the Libs so far
Dovif is a Liberal spreading disinformation, that’s how they are going to try to play the ETS. What’s his source for the “60% increase in electric cost”? What price per tonne of CO2 is he assuming? And he conveniently forgets to say that people get compensated for the increase that does occur. Is that the best the Libs can do? Pathetic.
oh leave it alone NZHOU. The bill has been before a senate committee and has been scrutinised by patry negopatiators with numerous ammendments developed. Of all the things that may be worng with it scrutiny isn’t one of them. That was just a tactic to get the bill delayed and the need of that particular tactic has passed.
And Dovif the biggest threat to jobs in Australia and globally was letting cowboys and thieves run our banks and money markets.
Tha’s right SBH, you just live with your head in the clouds and follow Rudd blindly!!!