Your contributors alarming line – “Joyce Fear and Hate Corrosive for New England” is rather offensive as is his following implication that Barnaby Joyce is also somehow responsible for division?
Fear, hate, corrosive, and divisive? Rather strong accusations against a loyal Australian, isn’t it?
This is about as helpful as the rest of his diatribe against a decent Australian attempting to stop the lunacy being perpetuated by Labor, to vandalise the beautiful New England Region? Further items of wisdom such as this – “New England, like many rural electorates, has a high number of people with poor mental health – Barnaby Joyce runs a constant line of perpetual negativity – There is always something we should fear and hate according to his playbook; this constant focus on the bad affects people’s wellness”. Really?
Perhaps Mr Joyce has good reason, by attempting to expose the folly of the uncosted “renewables, and Net Zero” that is bankrupting the country. Perhaps this is the reason for the insinuation, that Barnaby Joyce alone, is somehow responsible for mental health problem.
There are many more people than not in the New England, who are against this desecration and economic madness, so are they in perpetual negativity? I note that your contributor has extensive rural interests, 13,000 acres of prime agricultural land no less, conveniently, and remotely removed from the vandalism, so should not be troubled by rising power prices, or being put upon with massive wind turbines and solar panels desecrating his prized farmland? So, that’s okay then?
Your contributors claim that Barnaby Joyce is ignoring the benefit of the borrowed millions being pumped into rural communities from the “renewables” industry, and further suggests that it is a fait accompli, since Labor has 3 more years and probably 6, to see this travesty through. I question the millions being pumped into the community?
The receipt of these millions by rural communities, are a fanciful gesture of exaggeration, just like every other of Labor’s outlandish claims. The only beneficiaries of this vandalism will be local earthmovers and concrete and steel suppliers based in major cities. These borrowed millions will not benefit small rural towns- they will be sent overseas and will only benefit China, who supply the turbines and solar panels. Your correspondent hasn’t considered that China also sells us the rope with which we will hang ourselves.
Fortunately, Mr Joyce has evidently had enough of the vandalism and wasteful spending of borrowed overseas money, as have most of the outraged New England residents. Perhaps instead of “corrosively instilling fear and hate” as your contributor suggests, Barnaby might have the courage, by raising community hopes, that his former party so clearly lacks, into taking a stand against the criminal, economic waste and vandalism of our landscape.
Mr Joyce might even start a new party, who knows, but at the very least, he demonstrates some principle.
Got something on your mind? Go on then, engage. Submit your opinion piece, letter to the editor, or Quick Word now.
The reality is that the same people calling on Barnaby to retire now, would probably blame him for the cost of a by-election if he did so.