of people over 12 — and Premier Daniel Andrews has himself declared there would be no need for state or citywide lockdowns after Melbourne was shuttered six times to deal with COVID-19.
“We’re going to have an Andean variant, a Uruguayan variant, we’re going to get all variants for the next couple of years. We can’t have the government threatening to lock us down every single time,” he said. Saturday’s campaign launch came against a backdrop of protest in the CBD and upper house negotiations over the stalled pandemic bill, which Mr Guy accused the government of wanting only to introduce more lockdowns.Labor has been courting crossbench MPs to support the bill before the existing emergency powers expire on December 15. Without either framework, the government would have no mechanism to enforce health orders such as quarantine, mask and vaccination mandates.
The government has just days to lock in an agreement and end the impasse, with Parliament resuming on Tuesday for the final three days of the year.
Great news just when we hear of a new and potentially very worrying variant has arrived…just saying. Nothing like being on the front foot!
Then a lot of positivity to come from Guy in charge (as in covid test results).
He will be waiting .😉
Oh yeah, There is NO way he can promise that as the COVID-19 virus is & will mutate for possibly years to come and may or may not become more deadly. That statement is meaningless in the face of a Virus with is absolutely out of control is large parts of this planet.
Matthew Guy... The man that promises he won't do the dirty work after the dirty work's been done
That's because by the time they get back into government, there'll be no more Covid
Bravo. Gets my vote.
Pathetically playing on Victorian people who did a brilliant job with a new virus for the first time.
Reading the room. 🤣🤣
Unfortunately will not get my vote.
The most irresponsible promise of a desperate has been. Let’s hope Omicron etc.. fall into line and believe their mate the Lobster 🦞 Mobster.
Guy: 'No more lockdowns!' *QAnon/anti-vax/Neo-Nazi protestors cheer* Omicron: 'Hold my beer...'
That is not positivity.
Before making promises maybe he should consult with the epidemiologists re lockdowns!
These are the 'proportional response Guys' who spread covid throughout NSW and VIC.
Time to remove Dan!
Very droll! In seeking to be positive, his first promise is not to do something - ever, even if public health is at risk! Matthew Guy opens his campaign appealing to the “freedom” protesters on the steps of Parliament House. 🤣🤣🤣
Not a good positive start then..
The National Plan based on the Doherty Report which was agreed upon by all the Premiers and Territories and Morrison and based on Health and Science is going to be totally ignored and worked against! Totally outrageous and culpable!
Mr Guy should be made aware that European countries have decided that politicians are not good at solving medical problems and decided to leave it to medical professionals. This includes compulsory vaccinations and LOCKDOWNS. Welcome to the past (and failure) Mr Guy.
Only a fool rules out further actions when they have no idea what we might be facing.
Taken from Gladys?... and we all know how well that went.
So he is running a platform based on ‘negligence causing death’ it really shows that there isn’t a competent person in the shadow attorney general position. You simply can’t run a campaign against health. What’s next ‘we promise to build more apartments with flammable cladding’?
Big statement! Gladys said the same thing and then had to lock NSW down. Guy has backed himself into a corner now - Covid 19 moves faster than we do, things change very quickly, look at Sth Africia right now!
soringst Matthew Guy confirms there’ll never be a lockdown in Victoria under a LNP government - regardless if any virus or pandemic. The freedom of Victorians is paramount!
Car crash followed by political crash
This is exactly what is reckless with MSM: make sure people do not enjoy their freedom! Give a platform to « want be » leaders with no understanding of how a pandemic develops thus encouraging a self absorbed minority to protest saving lives measures.
Guy is a small man in thought and deed. His utterly rediculous statement shows his desparation, politics before public safety. Playing to the crowd, he must realise that even the numbers in the protests are tiny vs. the population. Victorians vote for him at their peril.
Recycled Guy & Georgie Crazier are the new Zig n Zag 🤡🤡
He can absolutely try to win on that messaging, after all there have been eleventybillion people protesting.. I guess he’s relying on the inflated numbers? 😂
Oh, that’s reassuring. Not. He’s not solving any problem, just tying one hand behind his back.
Excelsior! Omicron to the max, right guy?
It’s a stupid, mendacious promise. springst
Positively reprehensible to exploit social division and public health crisis for personal gain. Immediately disqualified. Not fit for office.
What if Ebola hits?
If Guy starts his racist crap again, we will see bigger protests than a few lizard people. He can get in the bin. No racists in parliament.
The Lobster Guy. SameGuy
Doesn’t Guy have some empty apartment blocks to flog? What racist garbage will he stir up next, or is he happy with the Happy Clapper Anti-Vax Krazy Klan?
So if this South African variant arrives he's going to let it rip ? We've wasted 2 years for 9. then.
Hahahaha. Mathew Guy. Hahahaha.
I’m positive the LNP are the worst government at both a federal and state level, ever experienced in this country. All announcements, no substance. No duty of care, no shame. LNPDisgrace LNPfail
So we've entered the absurdist phase of the Scottpocalypse have we? LNPfail MakeItStop VoteThemAllOut LNPShitShow
So he is attempting to appeal to all the anti-vaxxer covid-hoaxers.
Evil-minded pollies are playing with deadly fire, the public should hold these pollie accountable for any future dire consequences.
It’s all hypothetical with him anyway.
'No if, no but,no more lockdown' to me it's clear that no Guy. We don't know if lock down maybe needed with new variants.
The coalition will ensure that there will never be lockdowns under a coalition government by continually presenting candidates like Zoidberg and the donut/fence guy.
This is laughable. Positivity is one thing. Making promises you can’t possibly keep, in the middle of a pandemic, on the same day a new variant is announced is foolish to say the least. Public health should be the number one priority of matthewguy
Mmm i don't think it matters what he promises, he will never be premier Dan has your back, lock down or not
Pandemics aren't F&%king Disneyland. We don't want optimistic fairybread in the sky Politicians, we need realists, adults. Matthew Guy is a laughing stock, surely they have someone better, perhaps a female?
Making a promise like that shows he doesn't expect to have to deliver on it.
Typical of the Liberals, the economy will always be a priority ahead of it's people.
Pretty easy promise to keep given there’ll be no coalition government in the near future.
Fool, populism...nonsense leadership
So if the health advice is to lockdown, his campaign promise is to go against health advice? Well, this is an easy decision for who to vote for
Positivity, what happened to Sudanese gang fearmongering? Must think we have a short memory. Great day to announce his laissez faire approach, the day a new variant 10x worse than Delta sweeps the World. More thoughts & prayers from the LNP.
Look at the those with no knowledge jump to fear , hint, stop watching corporate news and stop listening to dan. There are actual facts out there. The vax doesn't inoculate and the survival rate is very high. You have been fooled.
“I will ignore any health advice presented to me”
So … we have a more dangerous virus on the way and MG makes a statement/Promise.. like that ! ..cruisn for a Bruisn already !
That aged well...
I take it he means COVID positive?
Bro pls go away
No matter how many may die
So if omicron hits the ground running & threatens the lives of the people he would be entrusted to protect, does this mean he wouldn’t do anything to try & stop it? Okay….
Victoria has the only right-wing populist opposition in Australia that uses covid for political score points. Seems like only Daniel Andrews Labor is the only party to court moderate swing votes despite alt-right claims a tyrant
Lucky for him, he’ll never be premier.
The man is a new (old) variant of political incompetence
Positively bullsh1t
So there will be deaths GladysLiedPeopleDied
No one can promise that MatthewGuyMP unless you’re totally irresponsible & care about nothing other than politics. Campaign for positivity, you’re joking? Look at your our timeline & pub statements the last so many months, they were divisive, disingenuous & negative! Hypocrite.
The only lockdowns will be the LNP
Not even if the new variant is found in Victoria?MatthewGuyMP
Apparently lobster was on the menu. lobsterguy
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
Hmm. Positivity. This from an opposition that has sniped at, and criticised, the government for almost two years.
I really don’t want a promise of no lockdowns. It may be necessary again. FFS, even my 15 year old doing Australian politics amd his class think the Age has a screw loose!
Matthew Guy, the Guy behind 20 percentage points. Embracing the minority.
No fkn lockdowns Fck lockdowns this rubbish is not going away anytime soon, we get pumped with poison every 6 months and move on.
Because that worked out so well for Gladys.
I take public health advice from the VictorianCHO not a populist fool like Matthew Guy.
MatthewGuy promises there would be no more lobster with a mobster 👍
Matthew Guy does not get it. Nope.
Matthew 'I don't science' Guy
🙅
Saying that was bad timing, Guy.
Accompanying the Liberal Party's campaign launch is the Omicron variant
PassTheBill
On questioning, he admitted lockdowns might be necessary in extreme circumstances where National Cabinet deemed it was necessary. So his policy really should be 'no lockdowns, unless there are lockdowns'.
The Age doing their propaganda work I see...
Who?
On the same day a new strain is announced as a threat snd the Federal government announces national border closures to high risk countries. Pure politics