To everyone in small & family business, and the self-employed: Hope is on its way.

@TimWilsonMP Can you outline in any detail Tim, how your non-existent plan would make Thesaurus Books suddenly viable? Or are you just shamelessly exploiting the predicament of this business for your personal benefit?

@TimWilsonMP @taniaghunt End of an era. No one can afford rents these days, residential or commercial. Too little too late.

@TimWilsonMP And there is nothing you can do to make a bricks and mortar small bookstore competitive against Dymocks and Amazon. Scale matters.

@TimWilsonMP How are you going to save bookstores? They’ve been dying for years thanks to companies like Amazon.

Tim Wilson sees a bookshop closing and immediately pops up like a budget clairvoyant: “Hope is on its way.” Mate. Sit down. Let’s start with the boring, reality-based stuff you’ve carefully ignored. Bookshops aren’t closing because of some spooky Labor curse. They’re closing because: Fewer people read physical books There are these things now called e-books And Kindles And phones And tablets And literally every Samsung device that can hold more text than that entire shop ever stocked People read differently now. That’s not ideology. That’s technology. Gutenberg isn’t coming back because Tim Wilson tweets a platitude. Then there’s the shop itself. “Thesaurus Bool’s”. Tim. Most people under 60 don’t even know what a thesaurus is anymore. For clarity: it’s a book you used before the internet to find words that mean the same thing as other words. Ancient. Like carrier pigeons. Or your economic thinking. The name alone sounds like it was workshopped in 1978 by someone who thought the future peak was colour television. I’d bet folding money it was run by a former café owner who failed at latte art, blamed wages, blamed penalties, blamed Labor, and still votes Liberal out of habit and spite. Now, the really funny part. You popping up here is lane drift of Olympic quality. You are the Shadow Treasurer. Allegedly. Maybe Angus Taylor was high that day, who knows. Meanwhile, Jacinta Price is the Shadow Minister for Small Business. This was… wait for it… a small business. So why don’t you let her do her job, you stay in your lane, and stop using someone else’s closure as a low-effort backdrop for your hope-core nonsense? Or better still, Tim – just shut the fuck up.

@TimWilsonMP Zero private sector growth. Government bloated out of control. I run a small family-run business, am self-employed, pay your ridiculous taxes, and I’ll be voting One Nation. 🧡🇦🇺 Too little, too late.

Hello Timmy. Sorry to rub your nose in it, but you did beg for it. Article about the owner, with the owner about the very bookshop that you, deceptively (yes, we note how you did it) tried to mislead people about. QUOTE: "While Bowen is aware of at least three Melbourne bookshops that have closed in the past 18 months, she also knew of 10 others opening, including specialist bookshops" Did you get that to me. All doom and disaster, all going backwards according to your head. You need to get your head read, like a book. Here's the link, petal, just to help you out: theage.com.au/politics/victo…

Small businesses and everyone else please be aware of who you are dealing with here. He doesn't work for you. Hope is Not a Strategy, Part 2 Tim Wilson: Product Placement, Not Public Servant. Within 48 hrs of his appointment, my mind went to 3 questions: 🧠 Dunning-Kruger effect? 💔 Empathy bypass? 🎯 Product placement for vested interests? The honest answer is probably all three. #auspol Read more👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarrett… #auspol

@TimWilsonMP One Nation. 💪🧡🇦🇺

@TimWilsonMP This poor fucker is going to be inconsolable when he finds out how many farrier and blacksmiths went out of business between 1910 and 1930. x.com/TimWilsonMP/st…

@TimWilsonMP Good idea. Make them use up their super first.

@TimWilsonMP Sure - if your idea of hope is spending billions on nuclear and belting up on immigrants. That’s literally all the LNP is now known for. 💁‍♂️

@TimWilsonMP Are you for real? Virtually all bookshops, like video rental stores in the past are closing due not thru any fault of the govt but times shifting and the complete overhaul by digital and streaming formats. You know this but lie by omission.

@TimWilsonMP Just don't get Tim Wilson @TimWilsonMP to talk about small business insurance premiums (which are crippling small business) because he won't, as he had his campaign fundraisers at the Insurance industry lobby. Genuine supporter of small business? That's a hard no. #auspol

@TimWilsonMP Winning just 19% of the primary vote won’t be enough for the LNP to form government.

@TimWilsonMP #Timmiboi notes a closed bookshop promising 'hope is coming.' STILL NO POLICY! The tax system he defends pumps $20b/yr into artificial property demand via CGT & negative gearing — driving up rents, int rates & crushing sml business. Hope doesn't pay the lease #ShallowTim #auspol

@TimWilsonMP We need to get rid of this absolutely economy wrecking ball of an energy policy…

@TimWilsonMP And your plan Tim? Shut down Amazon pehaps? Where did you "borrow" the help is on it's way comment? Trump promising the Iranians, or perhaps listening to Little River Band when you were very very young? Anyhow, you are good at borrowing, so was your old boss Scomo...

@TimWilsonMP Dream on Timmy. You’ll never be in government and will be lucky to hold your seat next election.

@TimWilsonMP Not if you've got anything to do with it. More and more voters are (finally) waking up to the uniparty.

@TimWilsonMP What a jerk. He's suddenly going to change reading habits?

@TimWilsonMP Lol, it's a miracle they lasted this long, what with the rise of Amazon and rent costs on Church Street, Briiiighton. But blame Labor 🤦‍♂️

@TimWilsonMP So many small businesses that have existed for decades closing down around Australia. The economy is out of equilibrium - or its natural balance.

@TimWilsonMP At some point Tim Wilson gotta stop bullying into others portfolios and allow Jacinta Price to do her job as shadow small business minister. #auspol

@TimWilsonMP Are you sure they closed at the end of Jan?

@TimWilsonMP A book shop is closing. Next you'll be telling me Blockbuster is in trouble.

@TimWilsonMP Fuck off tim you make yourself like a fuckwit. Buisness come and go just like politicians. You’re a grub no solutions just criticism.

@TimWilsonMP So you're going to do JobKeeper 2.0 and give millions more to Gerry Harvey? Or is this the latest Liberal innovation - money to businesses with a failing business model? God help us if you ever get near the purse strings again!

@TimWilsonMP Probably kindle and other online books is the main problem,but hey if you want to put yourself up as the great white hope goodluck.😂Your ship is sinking buddy.👎

@TimWilsonMP And we're back to Dutton's version of the Liberal Party, which was savagely rejected last May. There are more consumers, and employees that you need to be, at least trying, to represent.

@TimWilsonMP Hope is a four letter word. POLICY is six if you can count that far. We await your discovery of policy in place of hope.

@TimWilsonMP A brick & mortar Book Shop! You're a bloody economic genius Tim! Keep it up! The Public Display is EPIC!

@TimWilsonMP Maybe they’d still be around if we regulated big business better and stopped multi billion dollar monopolies becoming a thing. Just saying.

@TimWilsonMP And what about queues at ED in hospitals. Not everything is about small business. Health. Where’s your concern for that..?

@TimWilsonMP Yes it is, they’re called One Nation & it would serve you and we the people well if you don’t screw it up by putting Labor ahead of ON. That would be the nail in the coffin for LNP.

@TimWilsonMP Yep raise taxes for the poor and drop taxes for the rich. Bugger all for struggling middle and working class families