Dear Poirot,

The Coalition can try to extricate themsleves
from difficulties by claiming not to have
said what they did in fact say, all they want -
who but their supporters are going to believe them?

I'll give you an example of "polspeak":

"The decision-making process with reagrd to this
matter is currently in place. It would be improper
for me at this point in time to pre-empt the
eventual outcome as the result of our consultations,
one way or another, of that ongoing decision and consultative
process."

It's a technique not easily acquired.

I am trying to think what difficulties the coalition need to extract themselves from? From what I can see we have had only one boat arrival in the last week. The best result in years.

The coalition are still planning to use boat tow backs if necessary, but with the rapid collapse in boat arrivals, this might not even be necessary.

In 3 weeks they have already achieved much of what labor had not been able to in years.

SM,

"The coalition are still planning to use boat tow backs if necessary...."

I see you're having difficulty keeping up with the Coalition's spin.

http://www.pm.gov.au/media/2013-10-01/joint-press-conference-minister-julie-bishop-jakarta

Having waffled on about turning and towing boats back for yonks, they are now saying they never had a policy to "tow" boats back.

Abbott states in the above press conference:

"......Can I just scotch this idea that the Coalition’s policy is or ever has been tow-backs..."

You say:

"....but with the rapid collapse in boat arrivals..."

Are you insinuating that the Coalition is responsible for anything other than attempting to suppress information on boat arrivals?

The general public wouldn't have a clue about post-election boat arrivals or interceptions because the information has stopped flowing.

Parrot,

It must be really galling to see Tony Abbott succeed so quickly where Dudd and Juliar failed so miserably.

Your comment "The general public wouldn't have a clue about post-election boat arrivals or interceptions because the information has stopped flowing." is a huge porkie.

When the government announced that it would be changing its briefings from daily to weekly the left whingers were out in force claiming that they would shout to the world every time an illegal boat came into Xmas island harbor, and when the last boat full of illegals came in, it was immediate news. Well either they have all gone blind, or no boats have arrived.

As for the policy of turning back the boats, the coalition has always used the term turning back not towing back. I would prefer if they did tow them all the way back, but just stopping them will suffice.

SM,

"As for the policy of turning back the boats, the coalition has always used the term turning back not towing back....."

Michael Keenan uses it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a55I1Vz5EWk

The thing is that there are plenty of occasions where interviewers have used "tow back" and the Coalition has waxed lyrical about it without correcting the interviewer.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/towback-policy-to-apply-to-sri-lanka-20121205-2avw9.html

Why even you stumbled (ie, forgot the script) by calling it "tow back" in your recent post.

More spin from then Coalition now that they have the reins.

More spin from the master spinner on OLO....the one and only....the irrepressible...."he'll say anything to defend the Libs", Shadow Minister.

SM,

"As for the policy of turning back the boats, the coalition has always used the term turning back not towing back.."

I'll just ask again....

Why, if the Coalition has only ever used the term "turn back", would you, a loyal spinner, employ the term "tow back"?

You usually try to be fairly scrupulous in your spin.

Could it be that you are a tad green at employing the new line "only ever "turn backs"...and it takes a while to digest a new line of propaganda for deployment.

Lol!