The Liberal Party should study UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rather than tacking like a yacht to accommodate trends, fashions and fads.
I’ve had two conversations over the past three weeks that have particularly struck me. The one was with a former Liberal cabinet minister who told me that Australia like the rest of the Western world hasin recent times and the Liberal Party had to shift to the left as well to embrace the zeitgeist of the era.
The Tories may not do as badly as many commentators hope at the next British election. The reason is Rishi Sunak.These two people, who incidentally know each other very well, are being driven in their opinions by the latest political and policy fads that have always been favoured by the herd in the Canberra press gallery.
Sunak is an interesting person. He’s highly intelligent – indeed, I’d say he’s one of the two or three smartest leaders I’ve ever met – and he’s a workaholic. He’s not an ideological leader driven by starry-eyed visions of an ideal society like Robespierre, Lenin, Stalin or Mao. But he’s not unprincipled. His lodestar can be summed up in one word: reality. After all, there is an old saying: the greatest ally of conservatives is reality.
He knows that to achieve net zero by 2050 will require huge costs and sacrifices, if it’s to be achieved at all. And it’s low-income people who will bear the greatest pain from crippling increases in energy bills, forcing motorists to buy expensive electric vehicles, charging people to drive their cars in built-up areas, forcing people to buy expensive boilers, insulate their homes and so on.
How will it address climate change without imposing crippling costs on lower income people, how will it get young people in to their own homes rather than rentals including from the state, how will it encourage investment including into new technologies, and how will it ensure our creative arts and sports become a still more exciting part of our lives?As for the Yes campaign for the Voice, it’s a related problem. They’ve run a campaign based on feelings and ideology, not reality.
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