Dear Individual,

<<that bloke is even more of a dud thatn I thought.>>

That's what they want you to believe, to lull you into sweet dreams, then they will replace him a week before the next elections and you will have no time to find an alternative to Abbott.

Graham writes; “While Labor portrays the Liberals as being in favour of the big end of town, they've actually held power since 1996 through the support of blue-collar conservatives in outer-suburban and regional areas.”

I actually think this should be the area of greatest concern for the Libs.

Being blessed so to speak with conservative, Christian fundamentalist, in-laws, with a good smattering of both blue and white collar workers, who live in our rural area, it has been interesting seeing the shift in support away from the government by this little focus group.

There have been three issues that seem to have bitten deeper than most, Hockey lifting the debt ceiling so dramatically which went to the validity of promises to quickly get the book in order, the threat to privatise student loans, and the Gonski retreat. Little mention of the areas I tend to focus on like refugees and climate change.

The statement I found quite extraordinary though was “I have never seem a government so blatant about looking after the rich”. Surprising because this is a reasonably affluent extended family. I would like to say their Christianity might be in play here but their brand is deeply American pentecostal. Further the word 'hopeless' appears to be the most recent adjective of note.

If these guys are taking this view of Abbott then I think he may well be in trouble because as sure as heck he got most of their votes in the last election, even if a few were purely because Gillard was 'living in sin' in the lodge.

While my in-laws probably wouldn't put it in these terms I think they, like most people, get disturbed when they see ideology trumping good governance and that good governance is for all Australians.

Hey Steelee

Is this another case of you employing your usual inaccuracy producing methodology to arrive at your assertions.

lol boy oh boy you are so witless at times

good governance is for all Australians.
SteeleRedux,
We all know that, you should tell the ALP leadership because they're obviously oblivious to that.

have no time to find an alternative to Abbott
Yuyutsu,
I don't think Abbott is any danger for a while. I do however think that policies such as the $200 counselling bizo is a pretty dumb thing. Is there a GST on those 200 bucks ?