The Victorian branch of the Young Liberals have elected themselves a fearless leader by the name of James Paterson.

Next stop: The Lodge

Here’s James Paterson, writing as “The Neo-Con”, at his now-defunct blog a few years ago.

Just in case you hadn’t guessed from the title – I’m right wing.

In Australia this makes me a Liberal – but don’t worry American readers, not your pansy left-wing liberals, in Australia the Liberal party is the mainstream conservative political party. Sure, there is ‘One Nation’ but they are a little nutty and located on the fringe, and Family First is just not my cup of tea. In other words, if I was in America, I’d be a member of the Republican Party.

Our equivalent of the Democrats is called the Labor party. Yes it’s true; they cannot spell, as they are the party of the trade union – or labour – movement. We do have a Democrat party, but they have like four federal Senators and aren’t even recognised constitutionally as a ‘party’ because of their low representation. They are stuck somewhere around and in between Labor and the dreaded Greens, but its hard to pin them down on a scale more accuratley than that, because no one really knows what they stand for.

There’s some hardcore political analysis right there. The Liberals are in good hands.

UPDATE: I wasn’t aware an archive of Paterson’s site existed, but here it is.