Our Tone has delusions of grandeur and sees himself as one day becoming the exalted head of Australia's Bunyip Aristocracy, naturally with Her Majesty as the titular head back there in Buck House, but the real power behind the thrown will lay in the hands of King Tone I of Bombowambie! I could not be a Liberal, I would be too embarrassed!

If they wanted to give an award to a great Australian, it could have gone to the late Tom Uren. who has passed away aged 93. Tom did more for Australia in 5 minutes of life than this dill Price Phillip has done in ironically 93 years of his life.
Tom does not need a cheap and nasty gong from Abbott, it would be an insult, his deeds speak loud enough for this truly great Australian. RIP Tom Uren.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-26/tom-uren-former-whitlam-minister-dead/6046340

Until this little episode, I was sure the Coalition would stick it out with Abbott - gaffes, mismanagement ‘n’ all - but I’m certain his days are numbered now. The Coalition was determined to not commit Labor’s great sin of removing a leader in the first term of government, but I don’t think they have much choice now. While they normally might have been willing to pretend something like this this didn’t happen, it comes only weeks after the failed and inept attempt to gut Medicare. The level of poor judgment this displays is mind-boggling.

It’s bad enough that the Liberal Party’s policies are underpinned by the philosophy that Australia needs a large pool of working poor with intergenerational poverty and little hope of social mobility (something the Coalition government has made no effort to hide this time around - think university de-regulation). But the fact that Abbott would apparently also like Australia to have an aristocracy makes me wonder what his party and the swinging voters were thinking when they put him in charge. It’s not like we didn’t have warning of how backwards he was on a political level, and how much of a bad person he was on a personal level (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvYzLIywCiA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUdPabnXUNA).

Gawd I wish he would just bugger off back to England. Clearly he’s never fully embraced Australia as his only home. Or perhaps he’s just determined to strengthen our symbolic ties to Britain for the xenophobic reasons that are so often disingenuously cloaked in an appreciation for our history?

Dear David F.,

"You can't make a silk purse out of
a sow's ear."

Dear Paul,

I think that the title that would be more
appropriate for Mr Abbott would be -
"Sir Pository," (of wisdom). ;-)

And so it starts:

"UK press dig up Prince Philip's gaffes after knighthood"

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/01/27/10/35/uk-press-cover-prince-phillip-s-knighthood-by-digging-up-his-gaffes#BCCiPWvZxifb6Sdj.99

Is anyone else as embarrassed as I am about our PM?

Paul,

Apparently Abbott as a "young-un" had already bestowed Tom Uren an offering...here's a news clipping reporting that Abbott was apparently busy defacing a poster announcing a Tom Uren speaking engagement at uni.

http://twitter.com/chrismurphys/status/559629864601260032

"I really should not be doing this", says Abbott.

If we apply that comment instead to his Prime Ministership - he's spot on!

Dear Suse,

We have only ourselves to blame, and what will be worse
is - if we allow it
to continue for several more years.