Coalition To Spend Next 3 Years Talking Shit About Renewables Until Australia Lights On Fire Again And They Become The Punching Bag For A Nation Looking To Blame Someone And 10 More Teals Get Elected

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After finally ridding herself of Barnaby Joyce and surviving what looked a lot like a leadership challenge from Andrew Hastie, the embattled Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has this week given insight into the party’s political positions on key policies moving forward.

In an address to the Centre for Independent Studies, Ley has said she will focus on delivering the traditional Liberal Party values around reducing taxes, cutting red tape and revitalising the private sector.

With a volatile party beneath her, made up of nameless high-cholesterol regional men eager to drift further right because Sky News is their barometer for public sentiment, Ley has decided to steer clear of the key issues dividing the party – including net zero and immigration.

For Ley, it’s going to be all about aspiration, enterprise and smaller government. Three fundamental Liberal principles that the Teal Independents are already doing a better job of advocating for than the Coalition MPs that they booted from blue ribbon electorates ever could.

In the meanwhile, the Opposition will simply talk around the issues that they themselves can’t agree on. Specifically, climate change.

Instead, they will simply say that the current government’s renewables transition is too costly, slow and unreliable. And that they could do it better, with game-changing policies that we won’t hear about until the next Federal Election campaign, but will be better than the incredibly unclear $600b nuclear plan that Peter Dutton was certain was going to bring them back to power.

Without ever having to say that the vast majority of the Coalition refuse to believe 99.9% of the world’s scientists who claim that burning fossil fuels at an accelerating rate for 300 years is fucking the planet, Sussan Ley and her unrecognisable frontbench will instead seed doubt about the Albanese government’s energy policies.

That is, of course, assuming Australia is lucky to enjoy another three years of neutral weather patterns, and don’t end up having another catastrophic black summer bushfire season, or the Brisbane River floods again, and millions of people have to evacuate from these ever escalating natural disasters, which will result in heightened emotions from voters who are desperate for a pressure valve, which will likely end up being the Federal Opposition who have rubbished this science since day one, and will likely result in another 10 teal independents getting elected in the most damaged coastal and outer-metropolitan Coalition electorates that have already seriously flirted with the idea of fucking off the Liberals and Nationals for the last two election election cycles.