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Socialism dressed up in the politics of empathy

We're all just getting along, now, ain't we?

Labor’s ‘values-based capitalism’ and energy policy echo Klaus Schwab’s ‘stakeholder capitalism’ that asks big government and big business to implement Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks. ESG is on the nose and so is ‘nature positive’, but with the Uniparty’s other leader agreeing to whatever Labor says about environmental policy, we’ll get it, and we will love it.

Every new policy and political event push us closer to socialism. Like cancel culture, you cannot debate it because then you are toxic or unkind or some other wimpy label. When you get cancelled or sacked for disagreeing, it is all about ‘empathy’.

Terry Barnes had this to say in the Morning Double Shot newsletter:

Michael de Percy goes hard against the socialism that now penetrates every pore of our major parties’ policies and messaging. I quibble with his ‘socialism dressed up as empathy’ argument, however: in Australia, major party socialism is rampant and it’s naked, not dressed up as anything other than what it is. He could, however, have mentioned Alexander Dubcek’s ‘socialism with a human face’, so we could add that there’s no Australian political leader who comes within a bull’s roar of the courage shown by Czechoslovakia’s Dubcek in 1968.

My opinion piece in The Spectator AustraliaSocialism dressed up in the politics of empathy.

Victoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia

Lots of free stuff in Victoria's budget by first female Treasurer

The Victorian government’s ‘Budget at a Glance’ website mentions the word ‘free’ 37 times in relation to the cost-of-living package.

Victorian teenagers will get year-round free public transport anywhere in the state. Not just to get to school, but to go anywhere and at any time. At a cost of $320 million, this will no doubt inculcate a sense of entitlement in our youth.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

Oh… And Victoria has reminded everyone how utterly devoid of sanity their Treasury is by publishing their Budget. As Dight Canning writes, they are financially and morally bankrupt. There’s only really two people to blame, Treasurers Jaclyn Symes and Tim Pallas. Michael de Percy agrees, writing, ‘All of this ‘free stuff’ seems to come at quite the cost. Victoria’s net debt is projected to reach $194 billion, with interest payments at $7.6 billion in 2025-26, jumping to $10.6 billion in 2028-29.’

My commentary on the Victorian Budget in The Spectator AustraliaVictoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia.

I hate to say it, but the Nats need to split

David Littleproud has decided to split the Nationals from the Coalition. My prophetic article below.

The wets in the Liberal Party have gone full Woke. They have destroyed the most successful political party in Australian history. If the Liberals had held true to Sir Robert’s vision for the Forgotten People, the Liberal Party would not have forgotten them like the United Australia Party did in 1940s.

The fractured conservative vote of the last election would not have occurred to the same extent if the Liberal Party had spoken to its base. I don’t care what self-professed psephologists say, there were so many of my conservative colleagues who wanted to punish the Liberal Party for abandoning them that, against all my hoping, the election outcome was a fait accompli.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

The Liberal Party seems to be having some sort of mid-life identity crisis, talking about going off to ‘rediscover’ itself in the wilderness of opposition. Under the leadership of Sussan Ley, the blue ribbon that held Australian conservatism together isn’t quite sure what it stands for, if it stands for anything, except it doesn’t like any of the policies put forward by its (former) Coalition partner. That would be the partner that performed better than it did at the federal election. It’s no wonder the Nationals are fed up and walked off in a huff. Sure, the Liberals will be free to snaffle up all the Shadow Cabinet seats and draft whatever Labor-lite, Tealish policies it likes, but it will also be free to make a real mess of itself as it puts the revered ‘values’ statement in the shredder.

My prophetic article in The Spectator Australia, I hate to say it, but the Nats need to split.

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