David Littleproud Confirms Nationals Will Not Re-enter Coalition with Liberal Party
By Sky News Australia
Nationals Leader David Littleproud confirms the party will not be re-entering a Coalition agreement with the Liberal Party.
“The National Party will sit alone on a principle basis,” Mr Littleproud said during Tuesday’s media conference.
“We remain committed to having the door open.”
Here’s what others had to say:
@ricshumack9134
You cannot have a church so broad you dilute your basic values and principles. Good call Nats
@richardrogers7339
Run candidates in every liberal seat for the sake of the country.
@johnoneill1011
Please Nats, run candidates in every city electorate, to give conservatives hope and someone to vote for.
@CarolBurgemeister
Finally, a party that is standing up for its principles rather than just “rolling over”. If this separation continues up tp the next election, I’d encourage the National Party to put up candiates in every seat across every state so voters can vote for a Conservative party that stands for what they believe in and puts Australians first.
@GavinSwift-i4z
By breaking away from liberal these politians have just given themselves a 25% pay cut
Finally a party that’s putting Australians first to fix the country not their own pockets
They will have my vote100% Hope they join with one nation and other independents to crush the uni parties
@robertholland7558
Awesome, the Nationals should join up with the minority conservative parties and become perhaps larger the the liberal party, especially when some leave the liberals for this new national coalition.
@CaravelClerihew
Imagine losing an election so hard you broke an arrangement that’s eight decades old.
@clinton-2023
Yea this had to happen, 1 million percent support this. The two parties Liberals and Nationals need to run on their own policies, they need to compete more at elections, and then after the election when the dust settles they can still form government by providing confidence but each issue that comes along has to be tested and yes there could come a day where the Liberals want to change a law and the Nationals vote against it and that’s the way its supposed to work and vice versa and that’s the way democracy is supposed to work. The Nationals outperformed the Liberals at the election and the Liberals are the ones with most of the problems internally now Duttons gone etc they’re in chaos. But the Nationals are fine and well supported.
@celinehealy9710
Love it. Stand by your principles. Australian citizens will vote for people who stand by their principles. Now. Will Jacinta Alex Andrew et al all now join the Nats? The best outcome would be the 26 who voted against Ley need to move to the Nats or start the Reform Australia Party. Best news ever.
@robertlayton7004
Best news today! Stuff the liberal party that party needs to fail its time to unite the minor parties and have our reform UK moment!
@anthonycanalese2142
Reading between the lines: Littleproud now sees the National Party as Australia’s version of the UK’s Reform Party. Did Jacinta Price just jump to a sinking ship?
@sallycent6598
If the Libs are not going to stick with the conservatives principles many people are going to vote for the Nationals the next election.
@RogerWilson-u4i
A very good decision!
Personally I have disliked having to vote for the Liberal Party whose policies and politicians have become increasingly wet, woke and incapable.
@multioptioned
Australians have short memories. Australia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement and the net zero emissions target was signed by former Prime Minister Scott Morrison in 2015.
Liberal party and Nationals have no idea what they stand for.
@StephenBarlow-q1t
This Liberal party had better start listening to their constituents, Paris must go? Nuclear energy is a must? The green revalution also has to go? Stop being weak lot of idiots. get some guts and get into important issues. stop following Labor.
@Harien-fs6gn
It’s good and will be more healthier relationship between both of them. They can feel freely agree and disagree to create future bills in Parliament House for better Australian.
@pierrecerroni7848
Matt Canavan should have lead the party. David Littleproud is not up to the task and a legend only within his own party.
@davidcarter4247
The political term for this is a dummy spit. It is not just Price’s switch that has upset the Nats but the Libs making Ley their leader. She won the seat of Farrer when former Nats leader Tim Fischer retired. It was the Nats’ fault for running an terrible candidate who would have been lucky to win the seat even if the Libs did not contest it. But they blamed the Libs. This a running sore with the Nats because they have lost other seats in three cornered contests. The Nats in Coalition can be duplicitous such as high profile members in 2013 actively campaigning for an independent against a sitting Liberal in Indi because 40 years earlier the Libs had taken the seat from the Nats. The Nats bear grudges forever.
Going forward the Nats’ problem is that regional cities are growing faster than farming communities. People in regional cities have more in common with people in the outer suburbs of capital cities than with those in farming communities.
@CruncheeFrog
The Nationals should run candidates in all seats of the House and Senate against both Liberal and Labor at the next election with a policy platform of real difference separating them from the other major parties otherwise this announcement is just meaningless going forward.
Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HvUO9341g
