The Australian Labor party began in Queensland as a grassroots working class Party, similar to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. But the problem with working class parties is that they are unsustainable. Working class people are not political activists and whatever political problem troubles working class people enough to get them political, will run out of steam sooner or later. Such parties are ripe for takeover by people who are very politically active and who also may be cynical, upwardly mobile, ideologically driven, or all three.

The leaders of the Labor Party always knew that with rising prosperity in Australia, there would be no need for a Labor party. What they needed was a new poor whom they could present themselves as the champions of. That was why Labor so enthusiastically embraced Immigration and Multiculturalism. That the adoption of these ideals was anathema to the working class people, who still voted for Labor, troubled them not at all.

Labor is now run by university bred academics who have never done a days work in their lives and their white working class electorate know it. Worse, these academics are passionate about “causes” which white working class people steadfastly oppose. The “Republic” issue was defeated in the working class suburbs. The highest vote for a Republic came, unsurprisingly, from Sydney’s Darlinghurst area electorate, which is the homosexual capitol of Australia and the suburb with the highest rate of cocaine abuse.

What is most amusing is the sneering and superior tone which so many Labor apparatchiks adopt when attacking critics of their own trendy policies. That they are insulting their own traditional electors is something they can never figure out.

Can someone get Dr Paul a job advising Labor.