Paul1405. "After supporting Jim Saleam"

That is a complete fabrication and well you know it. Many here have confronted you for similar wrong and offensive personal remarks concerning them.

You did say you were an unsuccessful local government candidate for the NSW Greens. So you don't manage to fool the public either.

Good evening to you POIROT...

I had no idea the public could access an individual's grades at Oxford ? There's much for me to learn from the world of academia, and the formal structure of a university education.

Your assertion that Mr ABBOTT has this propensity to equivocate about anything that his political master's may require of him. Or alternatively, that which may gain him some specific benefit; and in the mere 'blink of an eye' completely repudiate it; I suppose is nothing really new ? Considering that particular forte is well and truly within the purview of ALL politicians !

That old saying POIROT, '...you can fool some of the people some of the time...' well you know the rest of it I'm sure ? If he really is such a 'lame duck' as many would have us believe, why on earth hasn't the LNP had him replaced ? Further, his political strategy must be pretty good, considering the holy mess he made of Labor, post Mr RUDD'S election as PM. And his expertise in capitalising upon Labor's protracted disunity, was a masterful stroke of brilliance too, I would have thought ?

Despite everything they throw at him, he remains very much a resilient, combative Prime Minister. Just the sort of bloke you'd want at the helm, whenever there's a chance we again may be confronted with a renewed wave of Islamic terrorism !

Thank you POIROT for taking the time to refute much of what I had previously asserted herein. I thoroughly enjoy our occasional periods of jousting.

o sung wu,

"...Further, his political strategy must be pretty good, considering the holy mess he made of Labor, post Mr RUDD'S election as PM. And his expertise in capitalising upon Labor's protracted disunity, was a masterful stroke of brilliance too, I would have thought ?

Ahem....his "masterful stroke of brilliance" was unfortunately resting on hot air and lies - as the electorate has discovereed since the election.

They don't particularly embrace being "duped" on such a scale.

Scroll down and have a peek at this poll - under the heading " How do you rate Tony Abbott’s first year as Prime Minister?"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/thedrum/polls/

"Overall Bad" appears to have a percentage of 91%. Even if you factor in the ABC audience - that's quite dismal for a guy prone too "masterful strokes of brilliance"

"Despite everything they throw at him, he remains very much a resilient, combative Prime Minister. Just the sort of bloke you'd want at the helm, whenever there's a chance we again may be confronted with a renewed wave of Islamic terrorism !"

Yes - and he's just the "sort of bloke" who would pull out the "be alarmed and stay alarmed" theme to prop up his flagging polls.

This is the person Beach relies upon to 'make his case' Larry Pickering, right winger with extremest views. plus

But new evidence suggests Mr Pickering was using secret offshore companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and managed in Hong Kong to channel funds generated by the software (bogus horse racing betting scam) scheme.
At the time of publishing this in 'The Age' Pickering had 11 children to five women and lived in a waterside mansion on the Gold Coast.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/pickering-faces-new-evidence-over-failed-scheme-20130615-2ob7f.html

Beach you would be better off quoting the political opinions of Eddie Obeid than Larry Pickering. Like "Eddie said there are crooks in politics." It would carry more weight.

Beach in reply to your post above; The pot calling the kettle black.

"I will take a spell.
But highlight it was OTB not me or Foxy who took this to the public.
In his post here and a long list of other taunting posts.
And would ask, what if all posters behaved like that here.
Using half truth and lies to taunt other posters.
I highlight again with out some fences, some reason taunting is not seen as OK we all suffer."

Posted by Belly, 5/3/2014. A very long time and respected poster on OLO. Belly decided to take his bat and go home after much taunting from a relative newcomer, YOU! I don't have a bat, so I wont be going home, regardless of what you post.

Paul1405,

You are failed by your apparent poor comprehension. I was not relying on Pickering to make any case for me at all, but simply drawing an obvious comparison where partisans such as yourself cherry-pick whom and what to quote.

BTT