Monday, 14 September 2015

The Liberal Party, Indeed

Malcolm Turnbull's anti-monarchism is of course the logic of the Thatcherite, neoliberal, libertarian position.

If it ever comes, then it will come from there.
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  1. Anonymous14 September 2015 at 18:29

    It would, if they did logic. I see from Twitter that you are following the Trade Union Bill debate. The Tory contributions are hilarious, they wouldn't be passed as satire. But these are people running our country, ridiculous Bertie Wooster types still striking student debating society poses in middle age and taking themselves totally seriously. They should be republicans based on everything else they claim to believe but they are too thick to see it. Australia doesn't really do toffs so it doesn't have that problem.

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  2. Anonymous14 September 2015 at 18:34

    The Liberals have done ABC's bidding and effectively elected a Labor leader who, unlike Tony Abbott, holds the politically correct views on climate change, immigration, gay marriage and the monarchy.

    Abbott was vilified for three years by the Leftwing press for "stopping the boats", scrapping carbon taxes and blocking gay marriage.

    Now they've won.

    Call it the Right's Last Stand.

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    1. David Lindsay14 September 2015 at 19:40

      Turnbull is, in the contemporary sense of the term, very right-wing indeed economically.

      That is why he is opposed to fossil fuels, in favour of unrestricted immigration, in favour of same-sex marriage, and opposed to the monarchy.

      David Cameron holds three of those views, for the same reason, and would hold the fourth if it were not for the ever-present class dimension in British politics.

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    2. Anonymous14 September 2015 at 21:07

      He was always a curious adversary of Thatcher's over Spycatcher, but then so was Andrew Neil, there seem to have been no hard feelings in the long run.

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    3. David Lindsay14 September 2015 at 23:28

      And Andrew Neil is also a republican.

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  3. Anonymous15 September 2015 at 21:51

    NB Do you not recall the short spat in the 80s when Tebbitt raised this very point!

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    1. David Lindsay16 September 2015 at 00:50

      I am aware of it, yes. In many ways, Neil was a more consistent Thatcherite than Tebbit was. But she had a party to run.

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