Jake M W

All things politics. Former Labor member and proud unionist. West is best.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

Disunity is death in politics.

[Sumeyya Ilanbey @sumeyyailanbey]

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s leadership has been deemed terminal by Labor MPs who are anticipating a challenge within the next two to six weeks. https://t.co/IZho60Ts9j

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

I'm genuinely interested who the hell the Liberal Party get to do their media and comms...this is embarrassing.

[Angus Taylor MP @AngusTaylorMP]

We must fight and defeat Labor’s socialist vision if we’re going to restore our standard of living and protect our way of life.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

@01bSchmick @RealMarkLatham @SkullSpeedDeal Anti Catholicism is no better than antisemitism.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

@RealMarkLatham @SkullSpeedDeal Catholic education can be subsidized or even free for Catholic families that can't afford it, dolt.

[Josh Butler @JoshButler]

The Nationals calling for an early election in which (polling suggests) their entire party would be wiped out in one go, One Nation becomes the official opposition while Labor remains in power

It's a bold strategy Cotton let's see if it pays off for em
https://t.co/mohIkDpG69

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

@AshPolitik Comrade, yes ON is smashing the coalition atm but you're mad to think this won't impact Labor more down the track. Labor is on notice.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

@RCVic @aaronsmith @Qldaah Yep that too potentially.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

@MarkoMatvikov Albo could run a puppy kicking contest at Fed Square and would win the next election at this rate. Albo has his dissenters but the Labor primary vote has hardly moved since the last election.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

“The point is, a society that fails to house its children is a society in decline – this is what Jim Chalmers and his Prime Minister are seeking to arrest" #auspol

[Troy Bramston @TroyBramston]

Paul Keating comes to Jim Chalmers’s rescue with a fiery CGT reform defence, urging him not to budge on carveouts for start-ups or shares and ignore "the howls for continuing preference."

@australian @mcranston1 #auspol #ausecon
https://t.co/D0nfqQCFyV

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

The old Country Party really has no idea. If an early election was called, the Nats would be smashed.

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

Given the PM has "changed his position" and jacked up taxes despite promising not to, do you think there should be an early election so that the people can change their position on whether there should be a new PM?

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

@MarkoMatvikov My opinion aside - Andrews won 3 elections on the trot and increased his majority each time.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

And the Liberals keep digging. Sensational stuff.

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

Tony Abbott, 67, looking to return to federal parliament. Jason Koutsoukis (Saturday Paper) quotes Liberal sources. Abbott has the numbers to be Lib fed pres (May 29). Looking for a compatible Reps seat NSW or Vic. Plot hatched by Credlin, Loughnane and Lachlan Murdoch.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

@KosSamaras Brilliant piece Kos. I've never seen a political party try to destroy itself so hard and so quickly.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

One Nation hardly has any policies Rita...

[Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi]

Farage has shown that a nationalist party with uncompromising conservative policies can win votes from both the Tories and Labour...
https://t.co/BLnR76nRrX

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

1. No one cares about this Howard era stuff.

2. Even if they did, it was the Morrison Liberal Government that put Australia into debt.

[GemmaTognini @GemmaTognini]

I’m old enough to remember when Australia had no debt.
Thanks for wrecking it all, @AustralianLabor
Happy Budget day.

[Jake M W @JakeMarcusW]

My grandmother was born in Tocumwal and my great grandfather settled in Corowa until he died. Those towns once offered opportunity but are now dying. I despise ON but I fully understand why these voters are pissed off.

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Watching Angus Taylor last night was like watching a tribute act trying to recreate Tony Abbott circa 2013. Same monotone delivery. Same three-word-slogan cadence. Same assumption that if you just keep saying “the standards are too low and the numbers are too high” loudly enough, voters in regional Australia will nod along and forget the last decade happened.

They won’t.

Because while Taylor was reading his lines, the actual story of last night was being written in places he never mentioned. Deniliquin. Finley. Jerilderie. Hay. Corowa. Tocumwal. Towns that have lost population, aged sharply, watched young families leave, watched wages stall, watched main streets thin out and have now delivered some of the strongest One Nation votes in the country.

The economy for these Australians has not been working for them for a very long time. The Liberal Party’s offering? This cosplay.

Easily the worse campaign I have seen them run but they seem to be in the record breaking mood on that front.

[Tim Wilson @TimWilsonMP]

Bob Borbidge is right: any association with One Nation is toxic. They are not allies or friends of the Liberal Party. They feed on discontent. They have no solutions for the future of Australia.