After Labor smashed them in Aston by-election libs lose another one in Farrer .... will your beloved LNP exist after next election and how long does Anus Taylor have left as leader ?

Captain Nemo wrote on May 10^th, 2026 at 8:14am:

It's about bloody time that there is a serious threat to the Uniparty.




It is happening in Britain, too.

The results of Thursday’s local-council elections not only confirmed the end of the era of the Labour-Tory duopoly; they also showed the consolidation of a significant populist bloc throughout the UK.


This populist bloc first began to emerge during the referendum on European Union membership in 2016. Millions of people were prepared to reject their traditional party affiliations in support of Brexit, and embrace a cultural outlook that was antithetical to that of the ruling elites. It was then that these British patriots started to find their voice. Over the course of the past decade, their voice has become an electoral force that has surpassed the influence of the legacy parties.




Albo is our Starmer.

Labor will probably lose votes to One Nation also.

We will find out in good time.

Labor should be concerned because:

Let's not forget that Albo is not exactly riding a wave of popularity.



Labor did very well because:

A: Albo wasn't ScoMo (Although there are similarities!)
B: Albo wasn't Dutton.

It would be a mistake for Labor to feel smug.

There is an electoral revolution taking place.

LNP never again wrote on May 10^th, 2026 at 12:34pm:

Labor is also bad for the country.
The only positive about Labor is that they are not the Libs. The only positive about the Libs is that they are not Labor.

Not even you can say anything else positive about Labor.

There is nothing positive about Albo, Wong, Bowels, Charmless, Burqa.  Albo is a lifelong USyd Trot trying and failing to be a responsible adult. Squishy, spineless worms, all of them. For the Labor party to elevate such a bunch of worms is revealing. For the Libs to let Labor get away with it is dreadful.

Class alignment has slowly flipped. Labor’s strongest support increasingly comes from tertiary-educated metropolitan voters, while non-graduate outer-suburban and regional voters drift to One Nation, independents and other anti-establishment alternatives.

Across the world, possession of a university degree has overtaken traditional occupational class as one of the strongest predictors of voting behaviour. Graduates increasingly cluster around progressive, cosmopolitan and socially liberal parties while non-graduates shift towards conservative, nationalist and populist movements.

That dynamic helps explain the catastrophe engulfing British Labour.

In July 2025, Blue Labour founder and life peer Maurice Glasman warned Keir Starmer needed to wake up to the reality that Nigel Farage could become Britain’s next prime minister. Glasman’s most devastating critique was cultural as much as ideological. From working-class roots, Starmer “went to university and got stupid”.

Starmer, he argued, had become emblematic of a professional managerial Labour elite detached from the instincts, loyalties and emotional vocabulary of much of the working class.

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Do not assume Pauline Hanson represents the outer limits of rebel politics. She remains more likely a ceiling than a breakthrough figure. The more serious prospect is a younger, media-savvy leader. If, or perhaps when, Andrew Hastie becomes Liberal leader, watch carefully.

And that the lesson is not simply that voters are angry.  It is that millions believe the political system no longer sees them, hears them or offers them a future. Voters increasingly ask something more primal: whose side are you on?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/lessons-for-labor-from-uk-nightmare-...

Dnarever wrote Yesterday at 9:55am:

Silly parrot.


Australian Labor shouldn’t comfort itself that its federal and state dominance, and compulsory and preferential voting, provides immunity. Australia got to Britain’s position earlier, and in some ways we are more fragmented.

Labor’s federal primary vote has fallen from 49.5 per cent to 34.6 per cent between 1983 and 2025. The Coalition declined from 43 per cent to 31.8 per cent.

Back then, only 7.5 per cent of Australians voted for parties outside the 2½-party duopoly system. Now that figure is about one-third of the electorate.

How the disease took hold

The Liberal Party was not founded on Noblesse Oblige. It was founded on the opposite. Menzies’ Forgotten People speech is the most under-quoted document in Australian political history, because it pre-emptively answers everything that has gone wrong with the party since.

Menzies trusted the middle class. He did not want to manage them and thought their dignity, their property, their privacy, and their distance from government were the foundations of a free society. That is classical liberalism; the John Stuart Mill kind. Each of us is the best judge of our own lives.

Somewhere along the way, the Liberals stopped believing this. They decided the people were a project. The aspirational families who had been their core were now problems to be solved; vaccinated, regulated, monitored, decarbonised, re-educated, reassured, and protected from themselves.

The roll call of meddling

Consider the litany. Each one is a small treason against the founding creed. Together, they are a party-ending betrayal.

The eSafety Commissioner: a star chamber for the internet, complete with takedown notices and global content orders. Liberals built the concept. Mill, who literally wrote On Liberty to defend free expression against the well-meaning busybody, would have set fire to it.


Net Zero: a religious commitment to a target without a credible means of getting there, signed up to by a party that once mocked Labor’s faith in central planning. The fatal conceit with a wind turbine on top.

The Covid lockdowns: house arrest by press conference, with conservative premiers competing to see whose curfew could be more humane. The party of individual liberty became the party of QR codes and permission slips.

The Ben Roberts-Smith saga: a soldier the nation decorated, then a soldier the nation disowned, with conservative governments nodding along to every shift in the political wind. Glory and shame, two noble myths corroding under the same management. The party that wrapped itself in the flag could not bring itself to defend the man it had pinned a Victoria Cross on. This is not a comment on guilt or innocence, but rather the process itself.

The social media regulation: protecting the children by banning them from public discourse, while no one in the party asks whether the parents might prefer to make that decision themselves at the kitchen table.

The hate speech laws: drafted with the best of intentions and the worst of consequences, handing the bureaucracy the power to police what ordinary Australians are allowed to think out loud.

That is just the active interference. Now consider the negligence.

The NDIS: left to swell into a cathedral of grift larger than Medicare and defence combined, untouched by a Coalition that was too frightened of the optics to lift the scalpel. Insurance was supposed to be a safety net. It became a banquet for opportunists, and the Liberals held the menu.

Immigration: substituted for productivity, GDP padded with bodies while wages flatlined and housing detonated. The economic con I described in When Immigration Worked for the Nation. Australians were told the country was getting richer while their own children were being priced out of suburbs their grandparents had built.

Nuclear power: still illegal, after the better part of three decades of Coalition government. A party that lectured Labor about energy realism and never once lifted the legislative finger to make a sensible alternative legal.
The Voice referendum: handed to them on a golden platter by the Australian people, who voted no with a clarity that should have given the Liberals a mandate for a generation. Instead, they pocketed the result, mumbled something gracious, and moved on to the next focus group. No follow-through or challenge to the garbage of the culture wars.
The dragon roared and they asked it to keep its voice down.

Gender dysphoria: Swallowed wholesale. A party that once stood for evidence-based medicine and parental authority became too embarrassed to ask the obvious questions about children, hormones and irreversible surgery. Cass inquiry came and went and the Liberals had nothing to say, because saying anything would have been impolite.