Speakless Speakman

NSW Liberal leader says population growth is our best defence

NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman reckons Australia needs to import more migrants to secure the continent.

Right.

So, he’s proposing an invasion of migrants to avoid an invasion of foreigners.

Or to put it another way, in order to stop people forcing their way into our country, Speakman reckons we should drop our borders so people can freely enter our country.

In order to secure the borders we need to eliminate the borders because only when the borders are gone will the borders be strong.

I predict Labor Premier Chris Minns will lead NSW for the next 100 years. But I digress.

Speakman, who after this fiasco would be well advised to speak less, told the Daily Telegraph …

“I don’t think Australia has any strategic choice but to maintain significant population growth.

“We are a lightly populated continent, at the bottom of Asia.

“When you’ve got maybe half the world’s population in the continent next to us and when there are incredible strains on the resources in those countries, when you could have climate change potentially displacing hundreds of millions of people in the next decades, I don’t think Australia credibly can securely maintain occupation of a continent without some population growth.”

Speakman didn’t say how importing millions of people for whom we don’t have housing would help to ward off an attack from Xi Jinping.

Presumably, the Chinese dictator believes his 1.4 billion people are enough to overrun an Australian population of 25 million, but he’d lose all confidence if we were 30 million. And he’d completely give up pretensions of expansion if our population topped 31.5 million.

We don’t need nuclear subs, or missiles, or armed drones. We just need a stack more LGBTQ people seeking asylum. We could plonk them along the beaches with pitchforks.

Sounds like a plan.

I can see it now. Xi Jinping is about to launch an attack but at the last minute - upon learning that thousands of Australians are sleeping in their cars and can’t afford groceries - he orders his armada of warships back to port.

The very notion that a larger population would protect Australia from invasion is nonsense. In fact, it might do the exact opposite.

Ever expanding migration, heaped upon insufficient infrastructure, and topped with a lethal dose of muddle-headed multiculturalism might serve to fracture social cohesion and make us less secure.

As MacroBusiness chief economist Leith van Onselen pointed out …

“Our major cities are already becoming unliveable with degraded infrastructure and housing.”

The invasion we ought be worried about is the invasion of LNP ranks by leftist lightweights like Speakcrap.

It's the first time I've read anything from Mark Speakman, and now I know why. He’s an opposition leader nobody knows, pushing a policy nobody supports.

How on earth can the NSW conservatives hope to win government while being led by a guy who calls for higher immigration in the middle of a housing and infrastructure crisis?

Speakgarbage may be an even worse candidate than Pesutto. That’s an amazing achievement.