#auspol #covid19aus some thought the fires might force a change in climate thinking by the LNP. And then…

#auspol #covid19aus some thought the fires might force a change in climate thinking by the LNP. And then Brittany Higgins and the Respect@Work movement might change their thinking on women. And UK and US deaths might change their 'live with the virus' thinking. Zero from 3. /1 https://t.co/jU5mUmCihm

Modern conservatives are not political parties. They're the old conservative parties captured by their previous donors. Regulatory capture. Easy to spot - they have no public policy agenda. They respond to all issues the same way - cut taxes, regulation and government. /2

Exactly what the vested interests who have captured the parties want. Faced with even semi-difficult public policy questions, the cupboard is completely bare. The federal LNP spent most of 2020 creating donor-led economic strategies for *after* the pandemic. /3

Never waste a good crisis, as they say. The NSW Government now using its criminally negligent Covid response as cover to ram through all of the noxious anti-pubic health policies it desperately wanted to use last year. /4

Twitter spends much of its time turning it into sport between the LNP and ALP. Both exist in name only, as in the UK and US regulatory capture has swept away the purchase most parties had on populations, via populist strategies. /5

Michael West said it well about NSW, but it applies to most of the West now. Government is now business, for business. 'Open for Business', as the NSW Government motto says. If that means Open for Covid too, so be it, nothing can hinder the 'Economy'. /end