Labor for government is an alarming prospect.

Our Federal Election (Australia)  is on May 18th 2019.  Never have I been so positively alarmed  at the prospect of a particular party winning government.                                       

You see, I have been looking at Labor's 'climate change' policies.  If they win the election, they plan a 45% Renewables target for a start, with the accompanying rise in electricity bills and decrease in reliabilty that South Australia has so well demonstrated.

But also, Shorten wants 50% of cars to be electric by 2030. Now electric cars are expensive, they don't actually save any 'emissions' when manufacture is taken into account, and while they may be okay for a city commute, they are quite unsuitable for country driving.

This 'policy' may not be quite as bad the 'Green New Deal' that got the kybosh in America, but it is not far off.

I find the idea of Labor gaining control in Australia quite alarming.

People, have some sense. Even if you have voted Labor all your life, have a look at them now. They are no longer the Labor that was for working people. Now they are the sort of impractical activists that live in the more plush suburbs of a big city.

So please. the Coalition may be somewhat rotten, but they are still a lot better than the alternative.

Postscript added after the election:


And the Coalition won - decisively. It appears that Labor's agenda was so alarmingly radical that a lot of people switched their votes from Labor to Liberal or National, or to one of the Conservative parties with preferences going to the Coalition.

For three weeks afterwards, the Coalition had been doing some reassessing since everyone had expected them to lose. They have also been doing some gloating. "How do you put the cork back in the champagne bottle? Ask Bill Shorten." (Alan Jones)

For three weeks afterwards, Labor has been blaming anyone they can think of, though at least, as far as I know, 'Russian Collusion' had not been mentioned. A few have been particularly nasty, blaming those who voted the 'wrong' way, blaming 'bigots' and even 'knuckle-draggers.' One commentator even labelled them 'turds.' It was a reminder of the American presidential election, when those who voted for Trump instead of Clinton were labelled not merely bigots, racists and misogynists, but even 'a basket of deplorables.' Bill Shorten (Labor leader) made a speech that spoke of 'vested interests' and 'corporate leviathons' being set against them. He still doesn't seem to have the slightest inkling that it was hundreds of thousands of ordinary people (like me) who were alarmed about his agenda, and even more alarmed when they realised he had so little idea of what his own agenda meant, (like that he thought that electric cars take a mere eight minutes to fully charge.)

The Coalition, instead, say it was a victory for 'the quiet Australians.'

This is the brilliant thing about democracy. Those who regard themselves as the 'elite' may do as much browbeating as they choose, but in the end, the people get to vote. This is not a 'failure of democracy' as some of the political voices have said, it is the triumph of democracy.



The minor parties - One Nation did very well, in spite of the hit job engineered by Qatar through Al Jazeera.

Cory Bernardi's Conservative Party, on the other hand, did poorly, and on 21/6/19, Bernardi announced that he was deregistering the party.

And Clive Palmer. He spent a fortune on advertising, and yet did not manage to buy himself a seat. And what a good thing that is!