ALY ONLY A PAWN IN CRAZY GREENS IDEOLOGY
WALEED Aly showed last week why polls cannot be trusted when they ask who’d you rather have as Liberal leader. He also showed the Left’s fear of Tony Abbott.
Aly, co-host of Channel 10’s The Project, made it clear again on Thursday’s show he is a Greens sympathiser.
He’s already opposed the Adani coal project, exaggerated the global warming scare, savaged our border policies, opposed plastic bags and found ways to turn the debate after most Islamist terror attacks onto the alleged sins of the West.
But on Thursday he really exposed himself, backing the Greens’ insane plan for a “universal wage” of more than $20,000 for everyone, even if they were rich or work-shy bludgers.
The cost of this free-money scheme is an estimated $254 billion a year. Total government spending would have to soar 50 per cent.
Yet Aly claimed this was a scheme we “will have to have” and not “some leftie pinko nonsense”.
“Up to 5 million Aussies are at risk of losing their jobs over the next decade or so” thanks to robots and other changes, he insisted, and “the upside [is that] many of us can stop working full-time or even at all”.
So that’s Aly pinged as a reckless Green. But he used that same show to also urge his viewers to back Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull if Newspoll surveyors called over the weekend.
Vote for Turnbull, he said, so Abbott would keep his record of 30 losing Newspolls in a row. (In fact, Julia Gillard holds the record, with 33.)
“Do it for Tony,” he said, because Abbott must be blocked.
You can understand why Aly is anxious — as are many other Greens and Labor supporters. Which Liberal leader would most likely oppose their agendas on global warming, immigration and identity politics?
I am sure such calculations spill over into polling on the preferred leader for both the Liberals and Labor.
Why do polls consistently show voters don’t want Bill Shorten leading Labor, when he’s in fact made Labor so dominant? Do Liberal supporters in those polls fear his success?
Likewise, why do those polls usually put Abbott and Dutton nowhere as preferred Liberal leader, when senior Labor figures tell me Dutton particularly is the alternative they most fear, and poll leader Julie Bishop least?
How many Waleeds are these pollsters asking?