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Prince Phillip wins an Aussie Award?

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Chris_ho asks: "I still wonder why the Libs replaced Turnbull with this comic figure"

The way I heard it, Abbott reminded them of how the Santamaria axis used its numbers in the ALP to put them out office for a generation and of how riddled the NLP was with the same crew and how it would get the same treatment as the ALP if it didn't make him leader. Got him over the line by a whisker. Serve them right.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 9:31:30 PM
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I have a conservative voting relative who was doing a rant about Rudd over the weekend. We batted around Rudd's legacy for a bit before he remarked that "Rudd was the worst prime minister this country has ever had" then he continued casually "until the current one".

I was pretty taken aback and asked when he had jumped ship? His reply was that he hadn't, rather it was Abbott 'off swimming his own race'.

This is what is so dangerous for Abbott and the LNP. Their voters feel he has left the reservation, stepped outside the norms and boundaries of Australia politics where we don't go after the poorest nor do we give to those who have the most in wealth and resources. The knighthood to Prince Phillip seemed just so much more of the same and it continues to offend those who were once his supporters.

I think the LNP have to do something or risk being tarred with the Abbott brush and thus risking their chances in the next election. There is a real sense of Abbott having made his own bed as an extremely unrelenting opposition leader who employed the swords of partisanship and negativity but now is floundering against similar weapons deployed by a far less proficient Shorten.

He made much of Rudd's 'dictatorial style' but rightly stands accused of his own. He also was unforgiving of Gillard's difficulties without a clear parliamentary majority but now faces just the need of similar negotiating skills but clearly lacks those tools.

I think that Australian's, whatever their politics, have always liked seeing a bully get their comeuppance and I get the sense that is in play now.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 10:13:50 PM
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<<I think that Australian's, whatever their politics, have always liked seeing a bully get their comeuppance and I get the sense that is in play now.>>

SteeleRedux, Rupert is going to cop it? Please tell me it is so.

Here we have a 'Septic Tank' telling a 'Pom' how to run Australia! AND we think we are independent.
Posted by Paul1405, Thursday, 29 January 2015 6:13:12 AM
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Oh no! Poor old Tones!
Andrew Bolt has called Tone's decision as stupid and possibly 'fatal'.
Tony might as well throw himself on his sword right now.....
Posted by Suseonline, Thursday, 29 January 2015 10:10:51 AM
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Dear Suse,

He's Tone alone!
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 29 January 2015 10:27:19 AM
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No "possibly" about it, IMO.

If they turf Credlin - and wobble on with Tones at the helm, they're going to waste the rest of the year limping along.

By year's end they're going to have to start pork-barreling, etc in election mode.

To put it bluntly, I think they're "stuffed"...don't think there's any way out of this mire as "Abbott" himself appears totally on the nose with his former "supporters".

And the Prince Phil thing is only the shining star at the top of the Credlin/Abbott fiasco tree...brings the entire leadership debacle into sharper focus, is all.

What a disaster!
Posted by Poirot, Thursday, 29 January 2015 10:45:58 AM
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