Hi Paul,
When I posted my previous comment I was going to add 'on the face value of it' to impart that it was a somewhat ignorant opinion that I hadn't considered all the aspects such as the ones you brought up.

"What if the electorate swings the other way next time, do we "deport" a whole cohort from that electorate to another."

Lol. But it's also interesting if you think the electorate might potentially swing the other way.
Wouldn't that therefore mean that there's a potential that woke trendies may in fact vote for the immigrants, and then once they have them for a while they might say, 'No, we want a refund! Send 'em back NOW!'.

Silly voters.

It's a lesson though, once you choose it you can't unchoose it.
Maybe there should've been a few rich trendy up market suburbs that had progressive thinking people and with progressive ideas about immigrants used as 'pilot programmes' first.

Fill those woke suburbs with Muslims and Somali's, let them have African crime gangs running around with machetes, doing home invasions, let them have the increased crime and theft.
Go back in 2 years and ask them if they still feel the same way about immigration or if they were ignorant about their choice.

- That immigrants in the country benefited them financially in business and house prices, but just as long as THEY didn't bear the impacts?

Is it not fair to say inner city woke trendies vote left,
They live in rich inner city suburbs and send their kids to Uni.
They own expensive homes and businesses and work in the city on high salaries with their stock and housing portfolios.

They gain from increase in housing prices, lower wages from increased workers to staff their businesses and boost their share portfolios performance from a better economy from immigrant workers.

Would the woke inner city trendies accept and live with what they chose, the african crime gangs, home invasions, theft etc. or move somewhere else away from the mess they made?

As for Australia not being Britain, it is much like Britain in that it is still the ‘mother’ country that founded Australia. We have the same type of government and values (that many people in both countries now sneer at). And Australia is more and more aping what happens in Britain.

And, Britain has Reform: we have One Nation, with polling in both countries showing that people are fed up with what is being done to them by their political class.

Both countries are a multicultural mess. Both current governments prefer buying votes by legally importing cultures more used to low wages and conditions, plus authoritarian rule. Both the British governments and the Australian one have caused their countries to become almost unrecognisable as Western, democratic, sovereign nations.

Both governments have made an art of division and ‘diversity’, loaded in favour of the newcomers they have flooded both countries with.

Not ‘being Britain’ obviously doesn't mean that Australia is not suffering from the same ailments.

The tragedy about both countries is that they are no longer the countries they used to be, to the detriment of them both.

Hi AC,

Why people vote for a particular political party today is becoming increasingly unclear. Those holding a solid party allegiance (the rusted on voter) are rapidly decreasing in number. At one time many people simply voted for "their party of choice" based on a broad allegiance to the principles of that party, people held notions like; "Labor is for the worker, I'm a worker, I vote Labor". Young people in particular, now well and truly the majority of voters, have no problem placing the number one against the name of a entirely different party/candidate than they did last time. For the first or second time voters, they are very much looking for progressive candidates, seeing the major parties, particularly the Coalition (and Labor), as too intractable, too conservative and not representing their values and interests. I don't think the Big Two parties can reverse the trend, their day has well and truly come. The voting system will continue to give them an electoral advantage for the time being, but inevitably they will loose that advantage as their primary vote declines.

The voters Farrer have shown what they think of legacy politics, and have gone ‘populist’ - that sneer word used by arrogant elites.

Populism describes what the people think. And the legacy parties don't like people thinking for themselves; nor does the mainstream media which, like the legacy political parties, is on the wane. In Australia, only 32% of people trust the MSM, and 69% shun news programs. The polls are showing that the Liberal/Labor alliance should be terrified, but as stupid people, more dangerous than outright malicious people, they think that they are smarter than everyone else.

The stupid U.S Democrats were shocked when the more politically astute (than Australians) Americans replaced them with ‘populist’ Trump. Some Republicans were shocked too (they have their wets). Here's hoping that the same thing will happen in the UK, and particularly in our own country. At least for as long as it takes to get rid of the stupid politicians who have had their jobs for far too long.

Interviewed last night about the Farrer by-election, Angus Taylor opined that Australians wanted to get rid of the “rotten Labor government”.

On the humiliation of his own rotten party, he admitted that the Liberals had breached the trust of the voters who used to support them, and that it will take a long time to get it back.

Too late for that, many ex-Liberal voters would say. They aren't going back.

He also admitted that mass immigration, net zero and big government spending have proved to be bad for Australia.

But, he was too pigheadedly stupid to talk about One Nation, although that party seems to have received about 60% of the vote after preferences in Farrer.

The uniparty just doesn't get it.

Agree ttbn, I think One Nations success and their
performance in parliament will cast a whole new
attitude to political thought.
One look at the crowd that welcomed the Isis Brides
back only confirmed what we "conservatives" thought anyway.