Dear Poirot,

Let us hope that Mr Abbott will do the right
thing by the party and himself - and resign on his own accord.
It would be to his own shame - if the party chose
to throw him out.

We'll have to wait and see - whether his own interests
matter more than that of the Party's.

Abbott says there are lessons to be learned from QLD, why is he coming to that conclusion. Abbott should be saying the electorate do not like politicians that tell lies and break promises. He should do the right thing and resign before any more blunders are done. Probably already to late.
He is still peddling the same line of why he got elected. Spare a thought for the string of lies that got him elected.
Abbott and Newman are like two peas in a pod, there is no hope for either of them

Tone, please don't quit, resign, chuck it in, throw in the towel, what ever! What would The Labor Party do without you? You are their one and only, their inspiration, their rock, you are their everything. Please say you will be there "leading" The Coalition at the next election. We don't want to swap a Abbott for a Bishop, not even a Turnbull. You are the one and only Liberal that can guarantee certain defeat for The Coalition at the next election. Prince What's-His-Name would have more chance of victory.

Gee, once upon a time there was this bunch of 'Usual Suspects' on the forum what constantly called for the blood of the unpopular Gillard. Post after post they demanded an election to get her out! Where are they now? Their silence is deafening.

Hi Paul,

It must be pleasant to live in your either/or world. Many of us would be happy with neither Gillard nor Rudd nor Abbott. There are always many alternatives, and I'm sure that, as we write, some of those are being explored.

The Libs inherited a hell of a financial mess from Labor, and the economics of our current honey-pot, mineral resources, have gone downhill since the Election. No matter who takes over from Abbott, they will have a huge job turning the economy around.

Welcome to the real world.

Joe

"The Libs inherited a hell of a financial mess from Labor, and the economics of our current honey-pot, mineral resources, have gone downhill since the Election. No matter who takes over from Abbott, they will have a huge job turning the economy around."

Chortle...

Is that the best you can do...under the circs?

Abbott and his incompetent bunch of cronies - elected as moderates, governing like extremists - have been one long drawn out debacle.

Ah, the wounded goose ......

I'm don't think there is much to chortle about, Lib or Lab. We're in the economic world, we're not half-interested spectators of it. No economy except perhaps the Americans' is doing all that well, and many are going down the drain. Australia provides little more than mineral resources and some services to other economies, particularly China's, and none of them is all that flash. Our economy depends on those exports for its revenue, in order to pay for pensions and benefits and salaries and infrastructure. Less revenue means either less spending or more deficit. More deficit means more borrowing. More borrowing, without means to eventually pay it back, means Greece.

One may indeed chortle at all of that, if one lives in the clouds - capitalist b@stards ! they deserve whatever happens to them; it would be a relief to be immune to the needs of money or comforts of any kind. But so many problems ! So many sticks up the Libs' arses ! Wonderful !

But, Dame Margot, we are not immune, neither you nor I.

Though I loved the quote from a bloke in the UK, "It's immoral to expect people to pay back what has been loaned to them." If I see him, I wonder if he'll lend me a couple of thousand dollars. Perhaps the implications of what he said are clear: why aren't we planting vast plantations of money-trees ? why can't we just print as much money as we need, any time we need it ? Thank god for intellectuals.

Joe