Write Direction: it’s a personal view

I AM writing this view on the day the Coalition seems to be falling apart.

There is a clear policy divide between the city Liberal Party and the regional National Party which looks like divorce for that union.

The city party is saying the legislation that it supported in the Senate helped the government get its modified legislation passed into law.

The regional party is saying it can no longer combine with the city crew because of its leader, whilst unnamed Liberals are reported as saying the National Party Leader has openly lied to them (which was said by Barnaby Joyce as his reason for jumping ship to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party).

None of us were in the room in order to see which tale is the right one and politicians, being what they are, are only going to tell us how each spins their own version of the facts.

My view is that no matter who they elect as Opposition Leader, they cannot bring that group back into power by the next election, even if the two parties reunite, which looks unlikely.

Our political system looks to be in a terminal mess, and our democratic form of government clearly isn’t working.

Ukraine remains an unsupported mess and Zelenskyy hit the nail on the head by saying there is a lot of talk going on, but no action appears likely.

WE could say the same about the Palestinian situation and Trump’s new plan to replace the United Nations with his own “Board of Peace”.

Canada’s Prime Minister has suggested the world’s middle powers get together to form another group, but the issue remains, who wants to fund it?

My view is that with each nation going in its own direction, we all are easy targets for the big dogs and it all seems to come down to who can we trust and who can we feel confident with in order to form some type of association in the hope that this might offer us protection.

As for Greenland being acquired by another member of NATO, the mind boggles, but then everything Trump does fits neatly into that space.

We are all living in a confusing world and as such, we all form a view about each situation.

I know it’s dangerous because none of us are experts, but we all need to take a guess at what is going on in our world and share that view with friends in the hope that it might eventually make sense to most of us.

By John BLACKBOURN