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Advantage but no honeymoon : Comments

By Graham Young, published 28/6/2010

Prime Minister Julia Gillard could attract swinging voters away from Tony Abbott.

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So as an outcome of the leadership drama, we can look forward to weeks of personality re-analysis and the $12 billion mining tax re-negotiations.
Meanwhile the biggest issue facing the electorate which is the $50 billion ETS carbon folly get's sidelined into the 'post-election' basket. Simplistic, condescending and meaningless statements such as 'I believe in climate change' and 'I believe man's emissions influence climate change' seem to be the order of the day, from both major political parties.
At least the Greens are to be commended for having a clear and stated policy in this area, in that they want to shut down modern fossil fuel based civilisation as rapidly as possible.
If the 'Tyranny by treaty' article in today's Online Opinion doesn't get people examining this issue a little closer, then it's just a question time before tyranny and candlelight are upon us.
Posted by CO2, Monday, 28 June 2010 12:35:00 PM
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Donald Duck could now attract new votes away from Abbott. The public have just been waiting for such a move and even the coalition were hoping that Malcolm Turnbull would step up the to the crease before now and show Abbott that he is there just because Turnbull was voted out on the ETS, and only for that reason. One vote on one subject.

Abbott is feckless, has no qualities to lead a boy scout troop let alone a government and most of his party know that as well. As for a presence on the international stage? Most people would migrate and become NZ citizens rather than say that their PM was Tony Abbot, a knave, a non-secular agitator and a weak and none too bright Catholic drone.

The support given to Abbott under instructions from the Likudist Murdoch and his collection of biased, rightwing publications with the Sheridans and Ackermans of this world, is an indication that poor old Abbott needed as much propping up as he could get. All over now.

The trend is away from non-secular dogmatic politicians and when he finally realises that he just doesn't have the intelligence it takes to lead a party, let alone a country (and with his intellect and ego that may take a while) he should accept a lowly position as John Howard's driver and triathlon coach and leave the thinking to someone like Turnbull, just waiting until the Liberals realise who they have inherited, by default, by one vote on one subject. The fact that they even voted for him at all, even as a joke as the only one standing, is an indication of the level of their intelligence as well. The backfire of the decade.

As for Gillard, the voters will flock to her for all the wrong reasons, the main one being to eliminate any possibility of Abbott representing anyone other than the likes of George Pell, where he belongs as a middle-aged altar boy.

The fact that some of the press saw him as a real politician is just amazing. He doesn't even believe it.
Posted by rexw, Monday, 28 June 2010 12:55:28 PM
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rexw - well said!

The trend is towards secular, non-sectarian politics and any political enterprise that embraces that, and acts along those lines, will be several steps ahead.

Hasbeen's point about people moving away from a person or a position is a good one - Lets see constructive policies for constructive engagement.
Posted by McReal, Monday, 28 June 2010 1:21:20 PM
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Rexw, I don't know which planet you live on, but from that post, it can only be in an ivory tower, in a far distant galaxy.

In the real world, the quickest way for the libs to loose votes would be to put that Rudd clone, Turnbull back at the top. In fact, in many places, getting him off the ticket would give the lib vote a boost. A reinstatement of Turnbull would increase one statistic, that is the informal vote total.

Yes, we all know that the academic wing of labor like him, just as much as they love Rudd. This does prove that an education is no guarantee of any ability in analytical thinking, more the reverse. Fortunately for all of us, the libs chucked him out, just in time.

Ironic that kicking 2 thick headed graduates out of leadership in the major parties, got a much more slippery one, into the lodge. Time will tell if she has any analytical ability, but we all ready know she is much more cunning than the pair of them put together.
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 28 June 2010 1:21:41 PM
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Graham,

A well researched article.

The two major flaws in labor's rule so far was rushed and ill considered policy, and shoddy / wasteful implementation. JG's assent to leadership may very well eliminate some of the former, but with the largely identical cabinet, the latter is unlikely to improve.

JG is well advised to move on an early election before the end of the honeymoon period when the voters realize that there is no real change.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Monday, 28 June 2010 1:41:00 PM
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Same product, different packaging, same ole same ole. Right misses the mark, left also misses the mark. Nazi's are reputed to be christian But would Jesus have done what National Socialism did. A far right form of politics following philosophies from the right and left. All socialists whether right or left miss the mark of Gods best for mankind.
Posted by Richie 10, Monday, 28 June 2010 3:23:48 PM
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