(from a disgruntled working class Australian born male who has not only been following politics closely since the mid-1980s, but casted his primary vote for Labor candidates at every election since 1987)
Please please PLEASE… enough with the RHETORIC!! Seriously, are you lot so blind that you can’t see the things you’re doing right now are what caused you to lose the last three elections? Are you so inept and out of touch with reality that you haven’t recognised the same shitshow which the Liberal-National Coalition are performing today is the one that got them over the line against Kevin Rudd in 2013, then Bill Shorten in 2016 and 2019?
Labor need to do a much more complete job of describing to Australia’s voting public how candidates from Liberals, Nationals and other Conservative-leaning parties
(i) are the ones who have had eight years to make the country a better place for everyone yet have failed by any measure,
(ii) do not have any policies which could help provide a better life for those who are struggling,
(iii) have no understanding of or consideration for climate change in any respect, and
(iv) are demonstrably no longer fit to decide the course of the nation’s future.
What’s painfully obvious to even the most casual spectator, but seemingly not in any way recognised by anyone within the ALP’s media staff, is that the public en masse are fed up to the eye teeth of hearing politicians promise us the world prior to polling day only to then see those promises not kept once the winners are sworn in. Labor need to instead focus every waking moment on broadcasting all available documentary evidence of the LNP’s fiscal mismanagement, their corruption scandals, their capitalist pork-barreling failures and their abhorrently overt disdain for working class Australians.
Simply put, Labor need to concentrate their campaign 100% on explaining why the LNP no longer deserves the right to govern.
Policy announcements and rhetoric such as “Labor will be a better government because we’ll do this, this and this!” only serve to provide the right wing media and the Coalition with cannon fodder. It’s about time the Australian Labor Party started flinging a whole lot more of that ‘shit’ back at the Morrison Government, or else you can expect to spend another three years on the Opposition benches writing poems about
“What if…?”!
Here endeth the lesson.
With thanks to Hairy…™