Andrew Bolt: Bullying from Yes campaign is out of control

The nagging, lecturing and moralising from elites is killing the Voice — it’s no wonder support is suddenly on the nose.

Australians never liked bullies. That’s one big reason Labor’s plan for the Voice – a kind of Aboriginal-only parliament – is suddenly on the nose.

The bullying by the Yes camp has been so full-on and offensive that I’m not surprised polls show voters now jacking up.

What a pile-on. Claims we’ll be racists if we say no. The Prime Minister warning that our reputation overseas will stink. Big corporations like BHP telling us to vote Yes.

Even Woolworths and Coles are nagging us, with Woolies lecturing miffed customers who left one-star reviews online for a book it’s selling – propaganda called The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Details You Need.

The Prime Minister is warning that our reputation overseas will stink if we vote no. Picture: Jeremy Piper

The ABC is campaigning hard, of course, with one ABC reporter last Sunday even accusing us of committing “genocide” of Aborigines that is “ongoing”.

Meanwhile, universities declare we must have the Voice, as if it’s not open to debate, and churches say amen, implying it is sinful to say No. Celebrities have joined in, as celebrities will.

Dissenters have been flogged as a warning. No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Country Liberal Party senator, was trashed on the ABC as a puppet controlled by racist “string pullers”.

And it will get worse. Hearing that this bullying isn’t working, unions have now promised even more.

Big corporations like BHP are telling us to vote Yes. Picture: AFP

Mark Diamond, national secretary of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, said he’d get members to hassle even their relatives: “We are encouraging our members to have conversations with their friends, families and colleagues.”

Michael Wright, acting national secretary Electrical Trades Union, said his union would “stridently” lecture its own members: “We will campaign stridently for the Yes campaign both among our own membership and in support of the broader trade union campaign.”

But what has the Voice got to do with unions? What’s it got to do with workers’ wages and working conditions?

And what arrogance for union bosses to browbeat their own members into backing this Labor attempt to divide Australians by race, as if they know best.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been trashed on the ABC as a puppet controlled by racist ‘string pullers’. Picture: Martin Ollman

This is the highhanded moralising and abuse of power that’s killing the Voice.

I’m guessing most Australians still have no idea how this Voice can possibly help anyone, but do know the people bullying them are out of control.

Vote No against bullies.

That’s a message everyone understands, and voting No will give many Australians the rare joy of making our elite realise they’re not so powerful, after all.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Bullying from Yes campaign is out of control