Trumpet of Patriots announces a Liberal election platform

Clive Palmer addressing the National Press Club of Australia, 13 March 2025

 

From the National Press Club: Clive Palmer’s address on March 13 delivered the first tranche of the Trumpet of Patriot’s election platform. While one regional newspaper took issue with humans being either male or female, conservative voters will find little to disagree with in what is otherwise a common-sense policy platform.

Writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

Michael de Percy endured the National Press Club of Australia for a good cause. He was able to put a question to Clive Palmer on the topic of the upcoming Federal Election. Palmer was his usual bombastic self, wasting no time telling the room exactly what he thinks of the politicians in Canberra.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

Our Michael de Percy and Clive Palmer are on a unity ticket on one thing; they both lump the Liberal and Labor parties together as the Uniparty. Having heard and questioned Palmer at the National Press Club last week, de Percy came away feeling that Palmer’s platform is far more Menzian than the Liberals’. He worries about the conservative vote being fractured between the Coalition, Palmer and various others, and he’s right. The only way to be sure of beating Labor and its further Left allies is to not to waste primary votes in ‘protest’ at the Liberals’ flabbiness, and use them to ensure that Labor is voted out in May, and not 2028. If that means swallowing hard and voting Liberal or National, don’t rule it out if you’re unhappy with them.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Trumpet of Patriots announces a Liberal election platform.

"Many conservatives appear to be voting with their feet by moving to the conservative minor parties," says @FlaneurPolitiq

My biggest concern with the fracturing of the conservative vote is that it will return Labor to power.

I asked Mr Palmer how Trumpet of Patriots would… pic.twitter.com/Bt1cHoBG5h

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) March 13, 2025