Extreme-left parties’ vote is halved as lefties whine about Coalition win
As lefties process their shock and disappointment at Saturday’s election result the vote count shows extreme-left parties are becoming more and more unpopular, with some halving their tally.
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Discombobulated lefties have spoken of the “immeasurable terror” of last weekend’s Coalition victory.
But despite their confusion and disbelief, the vote count has revealed extreme-left parties have become even more unpopular than before Scott Morrison’s surprise election win.
Trotskyist political outfit the The Socialist Equality Party’s vote in NSW has been reduced by 50 per cent, according to the Australian Electoral Commission.
Meanwhile, at Sydney University, students described Bill Shorten’s Labor loss as “existentially dire”, while the periodical Green Left Weekly ratcheted up the rhetoric, declaring “it’s the end of the world as we know it”.
The Socialist Equality Party’s vote was halved from 2933 votes in the 2016 federal election to just 1419 yesterday, with about 80 per cent of the NSW senate vote counted.
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The vote for the Socialist Alliance plunged from 5382 in 2016 to the 4177 total counted by the AEC yesterday.
However a party spokeswoman said the election was “corrupt” and that the Coalition government didn’t have a mandate because United Australia Party leader Clive Palmer’s advertising blitz had influenced the result.
“The Greens plus Labor have 43.6 per cent of the popular vote in the House of Representatives compared to the Coalition on 41.7 per cent,” she said.
Staff at the Green Left Weekly described the election as a “train wreck”, before giving their annual trivia night the theme: “It’s the end of the world as we know it.”
Sydney University student rag Honi Soit said the victory on the weekend was a “source of immeasurable terror”, and said its post-election edition was a historical imprint of the “severe anxiety inherent to being a young person in May 2019”.
“I am tasked with digesting and responding to a truly terrible event, objectively incomparable to its alternative,” its editorial said.
Sydney University Liberal Club president Jack O’Brien said students on the mag needed to accept the result.
“It’s absolutely disgraceful that this student-funded newspaper continues to peddle blatantly biased, agenda-fuelled, extreme-left content at the cost of the student community,” he said.
“To describe the moment as ‘existentially dire’ is honestly quite amusing — and unsurprisingly overdramatic. Their side lost, that’s it. They need to grow up and get on with it.”
Greenpeace has organised for special “break free” training courses in response to the election. In a statement, Greenpeace said the course would teach skills to spread the message about the urgent need for action on climate change.