Poirot, I am amazed at the way a few posts back you were attacking Abbott saying
he was undiplomatic. No one could critise anything he has said about
Indonesia as PM. His words have been very diplomatic.

Frankly, I think you should take a Bex and have a nice lie down.
I am not the only one to notice it. Please take it easy.

"....No one could critise anything he has said about
Indonesia as PM. His words have been very diplomatic...."

Well, ho, ho, ho.

Sorry, Bazz, but just because he feeds the Australian electorate chicken feed - and they naively gulp it down - doesn't mean he can get away with the same tactic diplomatically.

He's a font of weasel sentiment - and those words aren't even his.

He reads "important" statements out on the floor. Statements which have been prepared by his masters.

If it was left to him, he'd be babbling in three word slogans - which would be worse.

So his paper-thin Clayton's "diplomacy" is seen for what it is by the Indonesians.

I have no intention of taking a Bex.

The Abbott govt is the "greatest show on earth".

I thought it would be entertaining, but I had no idea that the ineptitude would be so universal, and the material so free flowing.

I'm stocking up on popcorn for the next installment

Amazing !
You are just making it up, dear oh dear.
Never mind.

It's a circus of a saddening lack of ability. Bishop should have demised long ago. It's a shame we have a diplomatic row with our nearest trading neighbor, thanks to the mouth of our undiplomatic prime minister.
They have pulled off a con job on the AU people. Three word slogans and outright lies won the day. The world must see our govt; as a laugh a minute. Everybody knew Abbott was not the right person for PM and yet we voted for his absolute ramblings that made no sense at all

Get a load of Tones waxing lyrical on our relationship with Indonesia - before the election.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J126Q5w1A7g

Same old, same old, he's telling Gillard what she should be doing regarding that nation.

Little did we know that his lack of diplomacy would render the relationship in tatters so early on his watch.

It would be correct to assume that any alleged spying equipment and protocols were in place durin the long years of Kevin Rudd's and Julia Wahtshernames' watch. Bob Brown, Christine Milne and other senior Greens would also have been aware, especially through their favoured treatment as Julia's partners.

Abbott is shouldering the criticism of the whining Left for the alleged actions and policies of their own mob, Labor and the feckless Greens, while they were in government.