‘Purplepingers’ wants a ‘cheeky revolution’. But does he have a real plan for the Senate?

Jordan van den Lamb, aka @purplepingers — the newly announced Senate candidate for the Victorian Socialists — wants to talk about alternatives to capitalism.  

“I don’t believe that we would know what that looks like until, you know, there’s a cheeky little revolution. And then, you know, the people decide.”

The Senate bid is not an altogether surprising move for the 28-year-old, who first garnered attention for his “shit rentals” website and videos, and whose public call for squatting in empty homes attracted the ire of property owners and panel show hosts. 

While he’s mostly known for housing, van den Lamb cites his other areas of concern as Indigenous deaths in custody, attacks on workers (“not a big fan of that”), cuts to the NDIS (“um, no thank you”), and Australia’s involvement in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza (“if we could just not do that, that’d be fantastic”), noting his policies will “largely be informed by Vic Socialists platforms”.