cont'd ...

We should now be asking the question -
"Does Tony Abbott deserve to survive?"
The PM has survived - very nicely.
But with his total negativity - and not
much else on offer - does Mr Abbott deserve
the leadership of his party? After all Mr
Abbott has done nothing to establish his
party's economic or any other credentials.
He seems content to coast along on what was
done in the past and has shown little
understanding of what the future should hold
for this country. It's time that this dinosaur
was placed back in the past where he belongs.

Yabby, you tout mythology, when you say "Lexi, I remind you that Costello was frugal".

Costello, weakly (under Howards stewardship) was far from frugal when it came to pork barrelling the big end of town.

Selling the countries valuable and profitable assets in isolation enabled them, (Howard and Costello) to show a temporary surplus (not through good economic management) but at the cost of now owning nil profit generating infrastructure of our own. What would they do if they were in Gov't today ?. There's nothing left to sell !. Infrastructure long neglected since, by the new privatised owners, now requires funding. They wouldn't tax the profits of the mining sector, banks etc, so I guess they would do what they profess too, and embark on a dire and dour and severe process of slashing and burning, cutting public funding for schools and hospitals, slash the wages of public servants, introduce Workchoices 2.

They would take the funding (for their purely ideological program) directly out the taxpayers pockets. Maybe they could sell whats under the ground this time ?. Perhaps that would fix our comparatively small (but evil) debt problem (sic). Never mind the standard of living for every day taxpayers; as long as the business sector is happy, our future is assured. (ideological nonsense)

Had Costello stayed on we may had had Abbott and Costello running our economy now and " what a fine mess we would be in Ollie" if that were the case. Abbott providing backwards thinking squared and Costello lurking indolently once again the background, doing the bidding of the leader once again, even if he disagreed with the economics of it.

Today we find Keating on the board of the China Development Bank, getting on with economic management, whilst Howard (certainly) and Costello (most probably) couldn't get a job running a hotdog stand if the view of the international community has any bearing in hindsight.

On the Rudd and Gillard thing, hopefully Rudd will put up and shut up this time and stay on the backbench giving the Gov't some air at last.

A very relevant comment you make Lexi, regarding Abbott.

Does he deserve to be opposition leader ?.

I can't see why he should. He would never be PM.

The brand spanking new Julia Gillard?
Then why now.
Why not last year.
A new start.
We must not be over come by the impulsive wish to cuddle our selves.
The ALP lost today, JG did too.
For a time the only and best thing the ALP has going for it is Tony Abbott.

I think Kevin Rudd is the People’s Princess.

Hey Belly how long after the next election will Shorten take over? I would have lost respect for his intelligence if he threw his hat into the ring on such a sinking ship. It's good that he knows the time isn't right.

We might be blessed that the smart people with communication skills are choosing their time. Hopefully Turnbull, one of the few non-career politicians or union hacks with achievements in the real world is similarly biding his time.

So there we have it, Belly old mate. All that major kerfuffle for
no good reason The ALP don't need Abbott to pull them down, they
do it all by themselves.

Never mind, Kevie can now bury his weary head between Theresa's
big bosoms, sobbing a tear or two as he reflects on how life is
unfair.

No more first class flying around the world, hobbnobbing with the
rich and powerful, at our expense. She'll just have to give him
a few chores to do around the house, like weed the roses.
And he did it all to himself through poor judgement.

Poor Kevie :)