The death of the Coalition and a requiem for the Old Order

The latest split in Australia’s conservative Coalition is another sign that the old established rules no longer apply.

They are no longer in Australia, just as they are no longer relevant in an increasingly fractious and chaotic world.

The Old Order is collapsing, and the New Order, under the quasi-leadership of the imperial king of the United States, appears to be causing chaos to divide and conquer.

After this period of dismemberment, destruction and bloodshed is over, a new and more stable structure will develop over time. Will any good come from this? It remains to be seen.

Ley line: Coalition split heralds the end of the Liberal Party

Today’s Coalition split, which falls on a National Day of Mourning, will not actually cause major mourning for either side of politics or the nation at large.

Because it is a well-established fact that the only political parties that Liberals and Nationals hate more than Labor are each other. Dragging this into an uneasy alliance is like calling Sussan Ley an ineffective Leader.

crossing the ley line

Because the accidental Liberal Party Leader Sussan Ley, who precipitated the split by sacking three National Party MPs from the cabinet on Wednesday night, is not only ineffective. Ley, who uneasily assumed the leadership role after far-right ghoul Peter Dutton drove voters away from the Liberal Party in panic and dismay at the last Federal Election, continued his work in his own unique way.

The way to do this is to be rigid in stance, robotic in delivery, off-key in messaging, and generally pursue whatever political policies seem most impractical or unpopular with voters.

In fact, when it comes to voting, Ley appears to be Kryptonite for the Liberals, Australia’s most successful political party since Federation. Latest Newspaper poll numbers It shows the Liberals’ primary vote support is now at a record low 21%, with One Nation below 22%. Under Ley, following the Coalition split, the Liberal Party is now not even Australia’s leading conservative force on these figures.

Pauline panic

Panic over the sudden surge in support for One Nation follows the recent departure of former Nationals leader and renowned raconteur Barnaby Joyce to the Party led by the mobster, anti-immigrant Pauline Hanson.

These factors were likely the main drivers behind National Leader David Litteproud’s move today to break up the Coalition partnership. This is more than Sussan Ley in forcing a vote on Labour’s hasty and ill-considered response to the recent tragic ISIS-led international terrorist attack in Bondi.

An attempt to appease the demands of the powerful Zionist lobby, its headline legislation effectively bans anti-Israeli protests against that country’s prolific human rights abuses and war crimes against the people of Palestine, to which it is subject.

coalition victim

Unfortunately, it appears that the three National ministers who took to the podium and triggered the Coalition split did so not to protest this blatant attack on the people’s democratic right to protest, but to object to further tightening of gun laws. A further restriction on people like the Bondi attackers being able to obtain the weapons used to kill 15 innocent people at a public event.

The legislative package, which also includes gun laws, passed Parliament late on Wednesday night without needing the votes of three Nat rebels. Ironically, it was the only part of a controversial package of legislation designed to aid social cohesion. And it is perhaps the only bill in the package to which almost no decent, law-abiding Australian outside the National Party’s rural pig-hunting base would have the slightest objection.

This is a sign of Ley’s profound political naivety; Instead of punishing errant National MPs for using their democratic constitutional powers to represent their constituents, he sacked them from their portfolios and caused chaos. A smarter leader might have predicted that this would trigger the division that the National Party was undoubtedly desperate to create.

On the other hand, the division was going to happen anyway. According to this publication, the Coalition is over. This outdated post-World War II alliance of conservative parties, formed by Menzies around the same time as Israel, at the behest of big business and with the intention of keeping Labor out of power, is in its death throes.

This has less to do with Ley’s spectacular mismanagement or the succession of woeful Liberal leaders over the last two decades; It’s more about how the world has changed since 1945. What happened in Australia, or one or two incompetent leaders, are minor matters compared to the tectonic forces reshaping our world.

We are experiencing periods similar to those that led to two World Wars. Pressure-cooker environments of massive global instability and a host of bad actors acting for personal gain, not the common good.

Old World Order out

World War I, for example, was the final showdown between several ancient empires that had run out of territory to conquer. created by the New World Order Balfour Agreement (1917) And Treaty of Versailles (1919), combined with the indiscriminate and indiscriminate rewriting of national borders and the distribution of war spoils.

The Second World War was a continuation of the first; A defeated Germany, resurgent from a crippling Depression and still suffering from shaky reparations impositions on the victorious nation, was trying to regain its lost pride and lebensraum (living space) where an insidious demagogue believes he has been unfairly rejected.

Currently, the huge increase in world population and the increasing inequality and living standards between Western countries and the developing world have led to a huge flood of immigration from these countries. The response to this outpouring in the West has been a resurgence of far-right political parties using populist anti-immigrant rhetoric. This led to the UK leaving Europe in 2016 Brexit referendum.

Trump took advantage of this, mischievously using this rhetoric to win the support of the working poor struggling with the ill effects of late-stage crony capitalism and industrial decline. It is illegally backed by a former superpower, Russia, suffering from the loss of its Empire and ruled by another insidious dictator eager to preserve lost glories, and is at war with Ukraine.

Trump’s agent, knowingly or unknowingly, threatened traditional American allies such as Canada and Denmark with U.S. military force to seize their territory. The fact that NATO, the military alliance of Western powers, is now on the verge of collapse certainly makes Putin happy.

So… what happens now?

Here in Australia, the rise of One Nation and the collapse of the Liberal Party may be equivalent to the collapse of the Conservative Party in Britain; this party has now been replaced by Nigel Farage’s populist, anti-immigrant, far-right UK First Party. For those who think Pauline Hanson’s increasingly mainstream and better organized party can’t do the same to the Liberal Party in Australia, think again.

The Old Order is dead and the Liberal Party may soon be dead too. Who knows what will replace it? But in the short term, it seems unlikely that the New Order will be as fun as it used to be. that group albo apparently he likes it*.

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* No, not New Order, Joy Division. New Order was created from the sad breakup of the previous Joy Division…

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