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After spending the last decade stoking culture wars as the voice of the working class, both the Liberal Party and Murdoch media are today scrambling to find ways to vilify the working men and women currently taking to the streets to protest low wages and staff shortages.
This comes as the corrections officers, transport workers and miscellaneous union members join the NSW teachers on their first strike in almost 10 years.
The New South Wales Education Minister was the first to launch a blistering attack on the workers yesterday, accusing them of being a protection racket that fights transparency and is hell-bent on hanging students out to dry for political purposes.
These comments have since been relayed right across the pages of the NewsCorp mastheads and Sky News today, with conservative commentators taking great pleasure in reverting back to the Howard-era rhetoric that anyone who engaged in advocating for the rights of the working class were communist scum who deserve to be understaffed at work and struggling with the cost of living.
This return to conservative union-bashing spells trouble for both the NSW Government and Prime Minister Morrison, who have spent the last decade eating hot dogs and attending footy matches they don’t care about in a targeted effort to appeal to these same voters currently marching through Sydney city.
So to counter this uncomfortable culture clash between Scotty From Marketing’s bloked up politics and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s libertarian approach to lower wages and smaller safety nets, the Liberal Party has had to resort to a more gentle approach to ridiculing the working class.
To do this, they’ve utilised the age-old form of expression known as ‘humour’.
Sitting on the lounge at his dad’s 10 million dollar Mosman investment property, prominent NSW Young Liberal Atticus Manchester-Angusmith (26) has decided to crack a little joke about the protests.
“Don’t teachers get enough days off haha” says Atticus, in reference to the 15,000 workers from 350 schools who will never own a home in metropolitan Sydney.
As a 3rd-generation mortgage broker who has had the luxury of living and working from inside a half-acre North Shore compound throughout the entire pandemic, Atticus cannot understand what these teachers are complaining about.
“Aren’t they on like a 70k base… That’s gotta be more than… Most people?” says the staunch Liberal campaigner, whose praying Morrison wins this next election before he takes off for two months to enjoy his first Croatian Yacht Week since 2019.
“I wish I could have 6 weeks off over Christmas too”
