How we CAN defeat the Greens this election: As a new poll reveals what Aussies really think of Adam Bandt, STEPHEN JOHNSON makes a bold prediction

The threat is clear.

Should Labor lose its majority at next year’s election, Anthony Albanese could be forced to appeal to the radical Greens as part of a power-sharing deal.

This could lead to the far-left minor party imposing a range of extreme and highly unaffordable policies on Australia, from free education to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.

Renters – who the Greens claim to support – would also suffer from their plan to abolish negative gearing for investors who own more than one property.

Their supposedly utopian policies would worsen inflation, forcing ordinary Australians to suffer through a political experiment that ignores fundamental economics.

But there is hope. The tide is turning against the Greens – and a new poll highlighting their decline in popularity is the biggest sign that their next election effort will be a failure.

Recent state and territory elections have shown the Greens to be politically vulnerable as their extremist rhetoric turns away even left-wing voters with woke views.

Take, for example, the Greens’ identity politics fetish and the way they claim to be a champion of gays and transgender people. However, their leader Adam Bandt has difficulty condemning Hamas as a terrorist organization that hates gays.

This is an Islamist group so despicable that it executed one of its own commanders, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, on suspicion of being homosexual.

In a tortured TV interview with ABC Insiders in May, Bandt struggled to denounce Hamas — despite multiple questions from host David Speers and the undeniable fact that last year Israel inflicted the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

Israel is also the only country in the Middle East to host gay pride rallies – a fact that the Greens seem to conveniently overlook as they routinely march during the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney.

As the scourge of anti-Semitism grows in Australia, Bandt also refuses to condemn hatred of the Jewish people without it Putting Islamophobia in the same sentence.

Bandt has also repeatedly accused Labor of ‘complicity in genocide’ – based on Australia exporting a component for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel to bomb Hamas hideouts in Gaza.

His party has also shamefully approved the blockades of the Albanian electorate in Marrickville in protest against Israel, with the seat of Prime Minister Grayndler seen as a long-term Greens objective.

The State Greens member for Newtown, Jenny Leong, whose seat overlaps with that of the Prime Minister, told a public forum last year ‘the Jewish lobby and the Zionist lobby are infiltrating every single aspect of what ethnic community groups are.” She was accused of referring to an anti-Semitic cartoon and later apologized.

This was a month after federal Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi, wearing keffiyeh, posed in a photo next to a sign reading “Keep the world clean” with an Israeli flag above a garbage bin.

With this kind of behavior from the Greens, it’s no wonder that a Resolve Political Monitor poll for Nine newspapers showed Bandt had a net likeability score of minus 15.

The Greens have a primary vote of just 11 percent – ​​the lowest since February.

The political party has also seen its parliamentary numbers halved in the recent elections, from two to one seat in Queensland.

Last month the Greens lost the South Brisbane state seat after holding it for just one term.

There was an 11 percent swing to Labor after preferences in this inner-city electorate, even though former Prime Minister Steven Miles lost the general election with a seven percent swing to his party.

South Brisbane overlaps with the federal seat of Griffith, held by Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather.

The result there demonstrated the possibilities of the Greens being defeated when the Liberal National Party put them in last place instead of Labor on principle.

In the nearby Green seat of Maiwar in Brisbane’s inner west, the Greens were nearly defeated with a 7.4 per cent primary lead.

This electorate is also home to the University of Queensland and a similar swing in Ryan’s overlapping federal seat would see the Greens defeated there too.

The Greens are also vulnerable in the federal seat of Brisbane, with the party suffering a 2.9 per cent swing against them in the primary in the overlapping Labor state seat of McConnel.

Even Canberra, Australia’s most left-wing city, has turned against the Greens.

In the Australian Capital Territory they lost two seats last month, dropping from six to four.

This happened when two progressive blue-green independents were elected, including Thomas Emerson, a former adviser to Senator David Pocock and the son of former Labor Trade Secretary Craig Emerson.

The Greens are vulnerable if left-wing voters, disenchanted with the major parties but uncomfortable with the Greens’ extremism, have a progressive alternative that also aims to tackle climate change.

This is where the teal independents come into the picture. Teals in parliament could play the role the Australian Democrats used to play as a moderate, left-wing minor party before the Greens replaced them.

Environmental values ​​used to guide the Greens, with former leader Bob Brown becoming an activist with the United Tasmania Group in the 1970s to oppose plans to dam Lake Pedder.

But under Bandt’s leadership, the Greens have become a group more obsessed with boutique causes like the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which targets companies that supply goods to Israel.

This BDS movement is so misguided that it has held protests outside Max Brenner cafes in Australia, harassing customers trying to enjoy hot chocolate.

The Greens now hope to win the seats of Wills and McNamara in inner Melbourne – held by Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns, who had “Zionism is fascism” scrawled on his electorate office in St Kilda in July.

They often talk about climate change causing global temperatures to rise, but the Greens are the ones fanning the flames of conflict in the Middle East and raising the political temperature.

It’s time for voters to bring out the snake in the next election.