Go right....further...further
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Angus sprinkles some ginger on his orange
MAGA and One Nation - the current go-tos for Tory inspiration
"Viktor, you're a very unattractive man." A record voter turn out of Hungarians has repudiated their Trumpian oligarch cum Putin lackey after his corruption became too orange to tolerate. Angus 'Squizzy' Taylor with his signature exquisite timing concurrently announced his Orbánesque One Nation-inspired 'me too' migrant bashing, one-upping the Ginger Minger by adding some Orangutanned plans to conduct social media vetting at the Australian border and empower a dedicated multi-agency taskforce to round up visa overstayers. The invocation of images of ICE kidnapping wrongly tinged people off the streets in the U.S. may give the slack jawed handrail lickers a boner but they are the same people who are in thrall of the red-haired moron anyway and they won't be changing loyalties.
Under Orbán, Hungary was ranked the most corrupt nation in Europe and Budapest "acted as laboratory and HQ for the global far-right*". Kiss O'Death Tony Abbott is an enthusiastic Orbán fan boy - Hungary’s “greatest modern leader” making Budapest “something of a haven for conservative intellectuals”. Orbán's rigid anti-immigrant stance was a primary stimulant for Tones' arousal.
(*Megan Clement. Crikey)
'Conservative intellectuals' is not necessarily an oxymoron. People like Tones put a lot of thought into their immigrant bashing arseholery:
"Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it's not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia."
Abbott, ABC's Q&A. April, 2010 and his selective Christian values
The thing to know about Kiss O'Death here is that he's also an enthusiastic Taylor booster as is Ol' Camphor Balls, the cryogenic John Winston Howard, who with his instinctive rat cunning exploited Tampa and 9/11 to dial up fear of brownish foreigners. During a Captain Queeg interregnum in the Libs the embaldened tinpotato Spuddly Too-right as Immigration Minister had dark-uniformed ABF goons patrol Melbourne streets to challenge the bona fides of passing swarthy-toned pedestrians (Operation Fortitude). As candidate for PM he targeted an immediate cut of 100,000 to migration numbers. Spud had an open door policy for French au-pairs and white South African farmers and enjoyed nothing so much as poking refugee kiddies through the wire mesh with a stick so this was an obvious dog whistle.
Jane Hume, a woman of practiced sincerity, alienated Australia's Chinese diaspora by alleging that Labor was employing Chinese spies to work on polling booths. She later doubled down and then attacked Labor for mentioning it:
Let’s be clear what the issue there was — there was a suspicion by the Australian electoral integrity taskforce of foreign interference in our electoral system.
Hume, May 2025
Hume was co-author of the Liberal Party's own 2022 internal review which explicitly stated that party representatives needed to be more sensitive to the concerns of the Chinese community.
Jacinta Name Ya Price, champion of Qantas Chairman's Lounge patrons everywhere, took on the Musk-inspired insult to immigrant communities by claiming the Labor government was prioritizing Indian migrants because they are "Labor leaning". She, of course, refused to apologise.
The trend has become well and truly set. Now Angus has applied his intellect to the problem of disappearing Liberal voters and decided that gazumping One Nation's more overt racism to recapture the drifting bigot vote is the way to go. "Australians are fed up with politically correct preaching on immigration" claims Angus.
"We're not talking about copying America in any way. That is not where we're going."
Opposition immigration spokesperson Jonathon Duniam thereby confirming in a very Trumpian way that that is exactly what they're doing.
Being seen as Trumpy doesn’t work well overseas. Just ask Viktor Orbán. Or Spud Dutton. They'll continue to lean into MAGA world for tips and techniques - the pumpkin headed loon is a natural ally but the gormless ranga is an immediate threat - hence the updated game plan from the idiot in residence. The divisive politics, resentment and hatred and petty vindictiveness of immigrant bashing will continue, supplemented by the Tories standard ideas-free, constant, narky negativity.
Hey Angus - "Shaddap You Face".
Taylor has only ‘vibes and fumes’, no answers on migration. Amy Remeikis, The New Daily. 14 April 2026.
Michael Koziol, SMH. 6 October 6, 2019
Angus Taylor can’t free himself from Dutton’s ghost on immigration. Bernard Keane, Crikey. 14 April 2026
Australia’s immigration powers are already godlike. So why does Angus Taylor want them to be Trump-like too? Abul Rizvi, The Guardian. 14 April 2026
To recapture the drifting bigot vote is the way to go.
That just about sums up the super superficial approach to tactics and policy of the modern Liberal Party.