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CP will likely move back to UAP and carry on with that political project moving forward. TOP was a unique and term-limited opportunity that landed in his lap after losing his high court bid to run UAP, opening a door for him to still undertake a political project to make a difference in 2025.

Rather than splitting the vote, TOP polled more Lower House votes nationally that Libertarians, Australian Christians , People First and Family First combined which was an outstanding effort for a 10 week campaign.

More so coming from a point where no one had heard of TOP in mid February to one where nearly everyone knew of TOP in 10 weeks. That's a direct outcome of CP spending $60m of his personal funds to back a new political brand on marketing where he had full liberty to spend it on whatever marketing he decided was in the best interests of the success of the party. No knees were needed to be bent to accommodate this. It was a blessing to the TOP candidates to have their campaigns supported this way in such a short period of time.

If it had not been for cyclone Anthony (Albert) TOP would not have been capable of performing as well as the party did as the timing was far too close as it was, let alone Albanese calling it on his preferred date right in the middle of the cyclone. Which turned out to be a strong storm....

The preference deal of putting the Sitting Member last ages much better than One Nation who as a direct result of TOP, went straight to Liberals and got the backing that likely helped them in the Senate. This will not age well moving forward. But TOP has a clean sheet by comparison when it comes to bending the knee to the Majors. They all were put last!

Now the real efforts will see how willing the loudest parties of the election campaigns are when it comes to uniting together to work with TOP to fill the void of the self destructing Liberal party.

Hanson with 4 Senators wont be interested in uniting with anyone, she may even have her eye on Babet to achieve Senate Party status, but his contractual ties with CP will be very expensive to break.

So that leaves the rest of the conservative right leaning minors to get their heads together to bring about real change... or not... and instead rinse and repeat in 2028 for about the same outcome as 2025...

Lets hope common sense prevails and key decision makers get that electoral history has proven that voters do not vote for brands but instead are drawn to unifying values that extend across the political divide..

And Gerard Rennick needs to be taking a lead role in the new movement as well..

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Kenelm Tonkin's avatar

Please read "Why I Am Not A Conservative" by FA Hayek.

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