Since about 2016, the Liberal Party has decided to abandon its statement of principles, ‘We Believe’, which espouses ideals such as freedom of the individual, lower taxes, smaller government, in favour of what one might politely call political expediency, but what really was a deliberate strategy of aping the policies of its opponents in order to ‘keep them out’.

Since politics is a numbers game, let’s have a look at the numbers to determine if this strategy has been successful.

The Liberal Party is now out of government federally and in every mainland state and territory.

Federally, under Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison,...