Letter

In response to Why the Coalition can’t win without losing itself

Have a heart, Kos!

For pollster Kos Samaras, linking immigration to housing is to be patronised as a “casual narrative” of “cultural threat”, and in terms of voter profiles it is “structurally impossible” for the Coalition to offer low migration.

It’s not just a cultural narrative, Kos. After a quarter-century of expansive real-estate incentives and endless mass migration (under Albo now, it’s 250,000-300,000 minimum annually), realistic capacity to pay off a house is becoming “structurally impossible” outside of the top 1-20% who both control and facilitate governments.

Do you even care? Why aren’t you using your silky skills to urge any and every political artifice that might somehow reduce the voter pain? Or is your kind of “democracy” just a cruel zero-sum game, and you’re happy for Albo’s enduring legacy to be (as it certainly will) absurdly high immigration and miserable housing affordability?

— Stephen Saunders from O'Connor