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As the Australian media work side by side to rebrand Peter Dutton as the Modern Day equivalent of John Howard, it seems that rusted on conservatives are also doing their part to rapidly repair the Liberal Party brand.
Angry local Liberal supporter, Ron Thatcher (57, Betoota Grove) is sick and tired of all of these corporate women and limp-wristed men who think that the rise of Independent MPs is a good thing for the Australian democracy.
“They get nothing done” he says.
“We’d be better off with moderate Liberals in those seats”
With 14 wildly popular Independent MPs currently sitting in Parliament, and many more polling to get up in the 2025 election, people like Ron are terrified that the Liberals will continue to bleed their once blue ribbon seats to competent female ‘Teals’.
The Teal independents, are a group of 7 community-funded and community-backed politicians in Australian politics who have been grouped together by the Australian media. Despite being independent to each other’s politics, they all seem to want to mitigate climate change, improve political integrity in politics. They also think we should be nice to LGBTI people.
This brand of politics thrives in the hyper-educated, high-net worth suburban seats that once hosted moderate Liberal MPs like Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull.
And with this movement only growing, the Liberal Party’s growing narrative is ‘they get nothing done’.
After an embarrassing term in the wilderness of opposition, both the Liberals and the Australian media would prefer to forget the sheer incompetence of Scott Morrison. They are also trying their hardest to forget that Peter Dutton is the sole reason that Australia had Scott Morrison forced upon as leader, after he called two Liberal leadership spills against Prime Minister Turnbull.
While he didn’t get the opportunity to take leadership back then in 2018, his ambitions have remained. All he needed was for the Liberal Party to lose twenty seats at the last Federal Election and the path was paved for him to finally become leader.
And now he needs to win back the Teal seats. To do this, he needs people like Ron arguing that the teals get nothing done, other than all the stuff they’ve gotten done.
Ron says Australia would benefit much more from having 7 toothless Liberal men who don’t have the self-confidence to ever speak up about the direction the party is heading in, with no chance of ever getting a cabinet position, but who are able to overcome this lack of respect by convincing themselves that Peter Dutton is the same as John Howard.
“Better than what we’ve got now” says Ron.
