You are right for once Robert LePage, our living standards are going to decline. With the productive sector shrinking quickly, as the entitled brigade grow, there is going to be less wealth to share. This entitlement attitude is greatly encouraged by people like Jeremy Corbyn, who buy their votes by promising more.

However you are wrong if you actually believe the coalition does more for big business than does Labor. With the left we see continual deals done between unions, big business & left governments to feed taxpayer money to the large unionised employers to the detriment of the rest.

It was Labor governments that would continue to prop up an inefficient over paid unionised car industry, to the tune of hundreds of millions, & it is Labor governments removing controls on the construction industry unions, much to everyone's loss. Construction industries are allowed to prosper greatly if they toe the union line.

Mr thinks you have a problem with seeing wood/trees, perhaps due to a huge splinter of ideology in your eyes.

I reckon that the British conservatives must be breaking out the champagne. While Jeremy Corbyn is in charge of the Labour party, the Conservatives are guaranteed to stay in power.

If Labour is harking back to the pre Thatcher era of government control of production, near government bankruptcy and shocking living standards, then I'm sure that the conservatives will be happy to remind the people of the dangers of a Syriza like party.

I couldn't say it better:

"If the 1983 Labour manifesto was the longest suicide note in history, then Jeremy Corbyn’s acceptance speech was one of the shortest.

Unlike Tom Watson’s thoughtful remarks, this was the angry, garbled bellow of a protester, an activist and a rebel – not a leader of the opposition who must win hundreds of thousands of votes that conspicuously eluded Ed Miliband in May.

The funny thing is this. I was ready to warn the Tories not to be too smug about the veteran leftwinger’s victory, not to assume anything about its significance. I had watched with guarded respect as he transformed himself during the campaign from a laundry bag with a beard into a cuddly tribune of the people. He was evidently tapping into more than a weariness with austerity: a yearning for authenticity, a desire for Labour to reclaim its moral sinew, perhaps even the germ of a British Syriza.

So when senior Tories guffawed at their prospective good fortune, I had wondered privately if they were making a big mistake. Their analysis was that Corbyn would deter precisely the voters he needed to attract with his deference to the unions, with his street-fighting tone, with his insistence that Islamic State terrorists and US soldiers were morally equivalent. What, they asked, did he have to say to those who believed that wanting to get on in life was no crime?

Yet Corbyn seemed determined to hurl himself into precisely the bear-trap dug by his enemies. His first act as leader, he declared, would be to go to a demonstration. He railed against the media. He bowed to the might of the unions. By the end he seemed to be planning a global revolution, as if he had been wheeled that very morning on a trolley from Speakers’ Corner.

Has nobody told him how brief is the period in which the electorate will be remotely interested in him? They will form an impression extraordinarily fast and, in most cases, stick with it to the general election of 2020. This was an almost comically bad start."

I hope Robert is wrong about Labor government returning next year - or ever again - but I have to agree with that it will be Abbott, Hockey and Turnbull's fault if it does happen. There haven't been such idiots in the Coalition since Harold Holt and Billy McMahon. Come to think of it, they have had only one decent leader since Menzies - John Howard. John Gorton might have come up trumps if the idiots hadn't stabbed him in the back because he was too honest. The Liberals have to get their act together, change their ridiculous name, and provide a decent conservative to the commo opposition.

I have read Corbyn's policy on energy and it is immutable left no holds
barred shut down asap all coal and oil and no nuclear, shut them down
as well, and no mention of what will be used on a dark cold still night.

As far as our future is concerned it does not really matter who wins
the election. Neither party has a clue as to what is really happening
around those redundant economics practitioners.

What Corbyn and our parliamentary wafflers do not understand is that
almost no one understands what is happening. Those that do are simply
not believed by those in power.

Germany, which has just undertaken a major economic burden of perhaps
a couple of million "refugees" is about to enter a recession.
If Germany's economy crashes the whole of Europe will be in trouble.

As we now might have a change in prime minister it will be just a
change in deck chairs.

The coming recession will hit us really hard. Our houses are way over valued,our servant jobs are not vital to survival and we have no manufacturing. The lucky country no more.