Oh Noooooo Belly, not the Dunkirk defence for Gillard. The slump we needed, the depression that did us good, the suicide that made me live etc etc etc.

But, you do characterise the Abbott team rather well, particularly with Hockey as an appendage rather than a main player.

He, even compared with the talentless crew alongside him, is a total hotair merchant, a windbag with no ideas, a simple chump being carried along for the ride.

As for the House (on Labor's side) supporting Gillard, well, they have no choice but to do they?

They all wasted opportunity supporting Rudd, wasted time in government letting him roam like a feral pig, uprooting things without craeting much and crapping all over those ideas that, had they been handled at all, never mind better, might have won him a different place in history and the vacuous public memory.

But no, he blew it all, wilfully, and they all sat around and whinged silently until, BOOM!, Howes and Co blew Rudd out of the water and then found themselves up the proverbial creek with Gillard, and right now they are nudging the source of that creek, I'd say, so far up it they are, and there ain't nowhere else to go.

Rock bottom is where they deserve to go, as with Bligh, but do we deserve Abbott?

Seems so, given the total lack of interest in politics both in the parliament and in the general public.

Lindsay Fox could probably run the country better, with the class traitor mate of his from the ACTU and a handful of duffers who couldn't stand up straight.

Shame it's come to this though.

TBC before Howe's was born I was a fixture in the faction that dumped Rudd.
Howe's will one day lead us.
I almost walked in to a rope in my career by saying Rudd would lead us and win!
My faction had real[power brokers/owners saying never!
Big Bill was one,they waited and pounced.
Knifing him, dangerous beggar wanted reform, end to power brokers.
And installed Lathams lady,our useless Lefty turned right Gillard.
However, test me,her one off poll improvement, right now,with Abbott doing his naked poll dance while appearing drunk, will flop in the
even against Abbott she is stalled .
Gillars is floating face down in a septic tank.
Soon the blind Cabinet will be forced to fish her out inventing illness and return her ministry.

What is 579 raving about ?

There is no justification for the GG to intervene.
There is a coalition in government now.
The situation was different in 1975 as Gough Whitlam was acting
illegally in borrowing money without Executive Council approval.
Remember the Kemlarni affair ?
For those that don't Kemlarni was an Arab arms dealer that was offering
to fund the Australian government and Gough intended to take the offer.

Labor are finished.It is just a matter of time when the axe will fall.

We need a Ron Paul Libertarian Style Party to replace them. Govt has too much power and the Global Corporates who control them,must to be brought to account.

Bazz, mate,
Bad habit coming in and not reading the other posts.
I am unsure about 579 post, too but it is the author not him trying to inflate this in to a crisis.
Now we do have one, gee truly never seen one as bad,but hardly need to pull a drunken GG out of a hat to fix it.
Abbott appears quite mad, Gillard is , Both Bishops frighten the hell out of me, Hockey? once a contender now a pretender and even he knows he has no chance.
Never seen a circus like it.
Only one that forces us to watch, pushing us inside the tent at gun point.

Belly said;
Bazz, mate,
Bad habit coming in and not reading the other posts.

Perhaps you did not read the first post, a clear call for the GG to act.
My response to that was no justification.
Re 579, I did not take much notice of that, there wasn't much to
comment on in his contribution.