Reference:- The government is relying on fear to win votes in the looming election .

Reference :-   When one has no policies with which to seduce voters , resorting to fear is the usual tactic . But does it always produce results ?

Dear Mr Morrison , sir , 

 

                                              Sadly , the polls are still looking abysmal  . And furthermore , your delay in calling the election date is irritating many folk  . Especially since you no longer have any choice regarding the actual date .  I guess you can hardly be blamed for teasing everybody a tad , before the reins of power are snatched forever from your grip.

Anyway ,  running your current fear campaign did seem like a good option , especially since you have no actual policies to offer   .  You have warned voters ( be it true or not )   that the opposition will increase taxes , raise living costs , and open the doors to a Chinese invasion .  So far these warnings have achieved nothing .

Obviously you have now decided to run a more broadly based fear campaign , the one you call " fear of the unknown " .  But so far that tactic has also proved futile . 

What is it you said  ?   To paraphrase,  " Voters have a choice between the scary unknown opposition , or the known incumbents ".  

Certainly the incumbents are well known , especially in the courtrooms of the nation , but that doesn't mean they are not scarier than the unknown.  In poker it is sometimes better to throw out your entire hand and risk five new cards rather than keep any of the useless cards you hold . 

Ken junior reckons that what you need to find is something that is scarier than your own party , and use that to fill the hearts of the great unwashed with fear . 

The problem is , what could that be ?  (And it can't be fear of losing the iconic aussie weekend , since you used that last time. ) 

The lads at the Sky Reply could only think of one thing scarier than another three years under a Morrison government .  We offer it below , gratis , as a service to the community. 

Why not tell everybody that Labor has a secret plan to make monthly visits to the dentist  free , but also compulsory ?  As we all know , everybody is terrified of visiting the dentist  . You could find some statistics to show that over 10 million Australians have an undiagnosed root canal requiring  treatment . 

Finding those figures would be easy enough , for as they say  , if you torture statistics enough they will confess to anything . 

It is all we could come up with at short notice , but you have nothing to lose by ( to use one of your most memorable phrases ) "giving it a go " . 

Your comrade , Ken