“I BELIEVE it’s only a matter of time before the Coalition splits,” says former Federal MP Craig Kelly in a post on X.
“I envision a new political group emerging, comprising breakaway Liberals, most of the Nationals, the Libertarians, One Nation, and Family First. Andrew Hastie could lead as leader, with Jacinta Nampijinpa as deputy.
“I see no other way to save Australia. Net Zero will likely be the catalyst. The Liberals will likely adopt a weak, appeasing stance on Net Zero, prompting Hastie and a few others to resign from the Liberal Party.
“They would then call on all minor parties to join them in forming a new party with policies focused on scrapping Net Zero, significantly reducing migration numbers, prioritizing assimilation over multiculturalism, and holding a referendum to enshrine freedom of speech in the Constitution.
“With candidates in every seat—democratically elected by members of the new party—this group could challenge Albanese in the 2028 election as a last chance to save Australia.
“Would you get behind and support such a new political grouping?” asks Kelly.
That Net Zero could split the Coalition appears to be a real possibility, given the unwillingness of Sussan Ley and the so-called Liberal “moderates” to confront the policy. They are apparently “reviewing” it at the present time, but not with any apparent conviction.
These Liberals are apparently convinced that the majority of the Australia population buys into Left-leaning politics and ideology i.e. “sustainability”, multiculturalism and rainbow politics.
Ley’s latest “big policy stand”, as reported on the front page of The Weekend Australian, is that “the culture of dependency has to stop”. It’s nothing new. It’s simply the old Liberal fiscal conservatism versus big-spending Labor message. The elephant in the room remains Net Zero.
The fact of the matter is that a large section of the Liberals are too scared to follow in Trump’s footsteps and defy the Paris Accord. For the so-called Liberal moderates, global socialism rules and we’ve got to be in the club, because our bankers, the EU, UN and the WEF say so.
If Ley and company were serious about fiscal conservatism, they would be stopping the corrupt transfer of multiple government billions into the bank accounts of renewable energy billionaires and their “swindle farms”, as Barnaby Joyce calls them.
But Ley and company would rather play political games in the so-called “centre” of politics – wafting which ever way they sense the wind is blowing for the time being, but not “too far” left or right.
The media are happy to play along with this game of middle-ground politics too because it avoids the embarrassing extremes and allows them to feed the public a palatable message in which “Blue Team” scores a point for the day while “Red Team” regroups for the next round. It’s just sport at a different level.
But another Coalition split will upset the Canberra political circus. It could signal the rise of a new conservative force in Australian politics, if the fractured freedom parties of “the right” are able to put their immediate interests aside and jump on board.
