What is the Liberal party’s policy on supplying weapons to Ukraine? I just looked at their official website, but I couldn’t find any mention of it. In fact, there is an enormous contrast between the amount of policy information on the Greens website vs the Liberal Party website.

The Liberal party website has very little policy information at all, and what it does have is quite vague, such as “put speed limit on spending”. Whereas the Greens website has detailed policies and rationale across a very wide range of issues.

The Liberal party are using a “small target” strategy; which is to say they deliberately do not communicate what their values and intentions are except on a very small number of issues. This strategy relies on the idea that people often don’t think about things that aren’t put right in front of them. If they don’t say anything that you disagree with, then they are more likely to win your vote… and that’s exactly how it seems to be playing out for you.

In my view, if you are picking one idea from the Greens (in this case the idea that they will only provide humanitarian assistance to Ukraine rather than providing weapons), and then deciding to prioritise the Liberal party over the Green for that reason, that effectively rewards the Liberal party for not having any policies. If they have no policies, then they cannot have a policy that you disagree with; but that certainly doesn’t mean what they choose to do will be better than what you voted against.

Wars and the politics and that surround them are not straight forward. It is easy to have an opinion, but it is not easy to solve the problem. So although you might not disagree with one strategy that is put forward, I don’t think it’s necessarily wise to treat a lack of policy as a positive thing (which is what the small target strategy is about).