3 May

The ALP is sometimes called ‘the natural party of power in Australia’. That’s historically true, and has nothing to do with which party you may prefer. It’s the only party that can and has ever won elections in our lifetimes in its own right. The LNP is a coalition, alone neither the Liberals or the Nationals could get within a million miles of winning a federal election. The Liberals and Nationals have only one thing in common - they hate unions, and Labor. Seriously, they have apart from that almost nothing in common. Both parties arose historically as a panicked response to the emergence of worker politics i.e. Labor. Workers vastly outnumber bosses (LNP) and farmers (Nats). So they will always be the natural majority in Australia. Conservatives in recent decades headed off this reality by developing ‘culture war’ politics, targeting mostly young men with radical fake debates that have nothing to do with the conditions of their lives. That vacuumed up ‘working class’ voters for a while, in the US and UK too. The SKY News-type tricks are now losing punch. Conservatives need to go back to what their name says - conserving things. Public institutions. They took not one policy to the election, only tricks. They were left high and dry.