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If you read any of the weekend editions of The Age or Sydney Morning Herald over the weekend, then you would know that the Liberal Party is currently facing the very real risk of losing up to 6 seats to teal Independents at the 2022 Federal Election in 3 weeks time.
And if you’ve driven through inner-east Melbourne lately, you might have seen some of the saddest billboards of this campaign.
Dubbed the ‘JoshKeeper’ campaign, the Morrison Government has spared no expense in coating the Kooyong Electorate with the lightest blue they can get away with – and thick bold lettered slogans demanding voters to ‘KEEP JOSH’ – as Treasurer Josh Frydenberg stares down the barrel at the possibility of being booted out of Parliament by a children’s neurology professor.
This same messaging has been relayed across the Victorian Liberal Party’s propaganda arm, The Herald Sun, who were kind enough to give the Federal Treasurer a flattering three page spread effectively begging for voters to not euthanise the Liberal Party’s last good egg.
Of course, you wouldn’t know any of the names of the candidates tipped to win seats from the Liberal Party’s inner-city moderate MPs, because it seems there have been directives from the very top of both Murdoch and Costello newspapers to NOT legitimise this threat to the status quo that keeps Australia’s media families rich, and mining oligarchs happy.
This morning in Melbourne, a sense of real panic has swept through the Frydenberg campaign offices.
After failing to carry a number of zeros and add a few tallies, it has become apparent that the Liberal Party of Victoria has shockingly miscalculated support for Frydenberg by up to 60 billion votes.
“We aren’t quite sure how this happened,” said one campaign spokesperson.
“And unlike the JobKeeper corporate welfare programme, this is a bad thing that we’ve over-estimated the number. Because with that, we pretty much saved the taxpayer $60 billion. Where here, we went into this week thinking we had a majority of Kooyong’s 120 billion voters on our side,
“Unfortunately, this number is closer to 60 billion. However, we are still optimistic about the election. If not, Josh can always go back to an investment bank.”
More to come.
