Victorian Liberals Somehow Making A Crime Wave And Worsening Economic Pain Feel Like Better Option

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

The Victorian Government continues to fumble this week, as the state grapples with ever-growing debt and a crime wave that shows no signs of slowing down.

Despite the fact that Victorians comprehensively voted in favour of yet another Labor government in 2022, Premier Jacinta Allan has since become a punching bag for growing voter frustration.

In any other state, her party would be staring down the barrel of a generational annihilation at next year’s state election, as the economy struggles to recover from the strictest pandemic response in the world.

Even worse for Premier Allan, her successor Dan Andrews has now decided it is perfectly okay to spend his post-political career appearing in photos with literal communist dictators as part of paid political junkets overseas.

Luckily for the Victorian Labor party, in their eleventh year of power, it seems that even the state’s most reactionary voters would admit that State Opposition is not a better option then what they have now.

The Liberal’s current leader, apparently, is Brad Battin MP – a man who is desperately calling for unity after years of inter-party defamation cases and three leadership spills in as many years.

And unlike every other Liberal Opposition, the divisions in Victoria are not as simple ‘City’ versus ‘Country’ – or even ‘the Christians’ versus ‘The Moderates’.

In fact, the Victorian Liberals are looking more like the fall of Yugoslavia, where different strains of political radicalism and different brands of obscure religious orders splinter into hundreds of borders.

As it stands, the all powerful Brain-Rot faction are still yet to condemn the state’s growing sovereign citizen movement and anti-migration marches that even the late night shock jocks at Sky News have distanced themselves from.

Meanwhile, the ‘tough of crime’ Liberals are finding themselves running around in weird, anti-Liberal, circles attempting to blame the current crime epidemic on a lack of ‘youth programmes’ and slashes to public education.

And with Greens equally fixated on algorithmic online talking points, there appears to be no third alternative.

Somehow the miserable status quo is still looking like the most appealing option heading into next year’s state election.