The English salute their Australian cousins upon their return to the fold of Civilized nations

sir lynton crosb, knight of the realm of anglo-australian reactionary relations

Tory MP Douglas Carswell

In Australia, Crosby and his longtime business partner and collaborator Mark Textor also honed their electoral technique of “wedge politics”: finding an issue that can be exploited to split off an opponent’s traditional supporters. With typical shrewdness and ruthlessness, Crosby identified the surge of Scottish nationalism in recent years as a wedge that could be used against Labour, both in Scotland and in England.

Crosby has a keen, almost flirtatious, appreciation of smaller parties that undermine his clients’ main opponents. When Jenny Jones was the Green party candidate for mayor of London in 2012, she remembers: “We were shut up together in green rooms from time to time. He gave me a couple of pieces of [unsolicited] advice – he said I should move my campaign to the left.”

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/08/lynton-crosby-wedge-politics-general-election-tories

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#auspol a rich seam

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