The former deputy PM has delivered an alarming warning to his constituents about independents: imagine if we had 151 of them in our national parliament.
Let us, for a moment, take Barnaby Joyce as a serious person. There is good reason for this. Unconstrained by office or position, now teetotal and unable to blame his mishaps on mixing his meats,is free to say what his Coalition colleagues are thinking. He is Peter Dutton’s Id, that primitive instinct expressing all the unconscious drives that are, for a leader, held back by Ego, Superego and black-framed spectacles.
Anyhoo. The thing that stands out like bull’s balls is the fear of teals and independents. After a plug for Gina’s “Iron Ore”, the main missive is a diatribe against independent politicians. If the Great Teal Terror extends all the way to Tamworth, where can it stop? “As much as I don’t want Labor to run the nation,” he continues, “chaos is far worse.” There you go: one duopoly partner sticking up for the other.
Unlike Joyce out in New England, those of us who live in independent-voting electorates are not terrified of “chaos”. The so-called teal wave is partly, but not wholly, a protest vote. It has been a repudiation of the duopoly, an expression of a desire to know what policies you are voting for, and, if your independent turns out to hold the balance of power, then all the better for those policies.
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