Nationals leaving Coalition as David Littleproud announces split with Liberal party after election defeat
Liberal sources say National party gave Ley less than an hour’s warning of their decision
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I didn't see that coming. Wow.
I don't know what this means as far as pragmatic effects like voting on legislation. Does that mean 9 Nationals go to the HoR crossbench?
My mate said “Huge news coming out of Canberra right now!”.
I guessed exactly what it was. The only bigger news would be if Russia or ‘Murica were performing a hostile takeover, which isn’t likely to happen while Labor is in power.
Does that mean 9 Nationals go to the HoR crossbench?
Technically, yes.
I don’t know what this means as far as pragmatic effects like voting on legislation
I expect the vast majority of the time, the Liberals and Nationals will vote together. But this opens up the possibility that on a few bills, they might split.
It means the Liberals finally have the dead weight slackened from their necks. They have a chance now, and more clear air than they've had in years to develop some good policy.
If the Nationals really want Nuclear, then they'd make a long term argument for setting up a pathway toward a sustainable industry that inserts alongside the renewable rollout as the energy requirements of the nation expand. But i predict they won't, because technology isn't their goal, coal, is their goal.
Will the Libs use their freedom to move back towards the pragmatic centre and bring the teals back into the fold (or replace them with better-supported candidates of a similarly moderate persuasion), or will they instead invite One Nation and Family First to dance?
Its the million dollar question isn't it. But i hope their new leader has seen reason, and understood good policy necessarily means a lretty central line most of the time, (by no means not all the time).
So i'd hope this is a sign that Sussan Ley, (the second 's' is so dumb, next she's gona be asking for her own pronouns... ;) /j), is trying to steer the party to the centre. Whether they actually sit down and develop any good policy in that process is a genuine hope i hold.
Good policy, even if i disagree with its direction, will always be better for the nation and the competition of ideas than the trollip they've 'mostly' been coming out with for most of the last decade or more.
You expect reason from someone that changes the spelling of her name, and I'm not making this up, because of numerology? OK.
I knew that, its weird, and not in a good way. But i also know that people can be weird in some ways but surprisingly reasonable and good, even talented, with other subjects.
Nobody's experience leaves them with all the faculties needed to run a country or create an effective alternative government.
Part of her job will be selecting people for her frontbench that make up for her own deficiencies. If she turns out to be a better leader than i expect she'll be very good at this, and maybe pick some people who can set her on an even keel when the numerology starts slippin into the mix.
I'm always happy to be surprised by people.
They can probably get more stuff done that way than being the junior coalition partner of a party that routinely does things that will screw the voter base of the nationals.
