".... THE NATION voted LNP into power, lead by Tony Abbott

try to respect the wishes of tho nation"

So?

What's that got to do with them realising that Abbott is set to secure them a one term tenure?

I mean, tell us, what you would do with a leader who turns out to be hopeless?

You stick with him beause he was at the helm when your party was elected?

You'd stick with him even if it was pretty much guaranteed you were going to find yourself back in Opposition after one term?

...because he was the guy who was good at sledging...but can't govern for quids?

Dumb....

.............

CH,

Lol!...I'm not rattled. I'm spending most of my time on twitter - where the conversation is a cut above threads like this.

But I drop back once in while to read the blather on here and make a comment. Doesn't take long - this comment has taken me approximately 2 minutes to type.(even with adding capitals and full stops!)

"I'm spending most of my time on twitter" That's sad.

@poirot

let others decide if your level of conversation is above theirs

twitter?
chirp chirp...

you are still young and have years to learn

btw, i am sure members here arent interested in our tender quibbling

so, please dont bore them

.... hehehe

Yeah, CH...it's dreadful isn't it - although I've managed to clean the house, take Mr13 to a friends house, hang out the washing, talk to my mum and my daughter on the phone, change the chook's water and make a lasagne....but twitter's a bit addictive, so I keep peaking.

Oh well...

.......

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/exit-abbott-pursued-by-a-bear-20150227-13odxi.html

"He's had it all, in spades, not least friends, patrons and luck. But now the man can't take a trick. Even the diminishing ranks of people who wish him personally no ill cannot bear to look. He's brought most of it on himself. He has not been brought down by Labor. Nor by his ideological enemies inside his own party.

He had, a fortnight ago, what he himself called a near-death experience, of realising what had for some time seemed obvious to nearly everyone else, that most of his team had lost confidence in his record and his judgment. Only a fear of the appearances of an execution, or the uncertainties of what might follow, was enough to hold a bare majority back from summary dismissal.

He begged for a further chance to regain their confidence and to restore his, and their, political fortunes. He was grudgingly given it, the positive last of many last chances. He promised he would change. He promised more consultation, and less reliance on his own demonstrably appalling instinct and judgment. He promised a shift of focus, and less occasion for voters to hate him.

He was given time by people who doubted that he could, or would, change his style or his personality. Who doubted he would suddenly begin listening to people he had always ignored, or stop listening to people whose personality they disliked, and whose instincts they trusted even less than they trusted Abbott's. His last chance came against all judgment because his colleagues feared that change could make things worse, and accentuate (or continue) public impressions of the Liberal Party being a shambles."

The fact is that Tony Abbott was not chosen
by the people of Australia but by the Liberal
Party. He won the leadership by merely one vote.
And as on senior minister said at that time,
"What have we done?"

Still, the Party did not want to go through the
same disunity that Labor went through so Mr
Abbott has been given lots of chances for a
"fair go." But the fact is as political commentator
Barrie Cassidy writing for The Drum points out -
that ever since the
spill motion Mr Abbott has made it too easy for
his detractors. Those on his own team as well as
those in opposition.

Cassidy tellus us that -
By going in so hard against the Human Rights Commission
President Gillian Triggs Mr Abbott has ended up embarrasing
his own party. Malcolm Turnbull stepped in with a
much calmer approach and stressed that it should be
about the children. Then Mr Abbott followed the lead of
the right-wing shock jocks and chastised Muslim leaders for
not doing enough to condemn terrorists. The Foreign Affairs
Minister Julie Bishop delivered a totally different message.
She said that the government was working very closely with
the mosques and Muslim communities around the country.

The latest newspolls imply that the leader of the party has
lost the respect of the vast majority of voters.

It's tough for the Liberal Party. They're now faced with
making the decision of whether its worth the risk to keep
a man - who's shown that he's not capable of changing, and
risk losing the next election - or replace him with someone
who just may restore the Liberal brand.

The choice now rests with the Liberal Party in which
direction they want to go.

Abbott was apparently the best of a bad lot when a messy Labor gifted the election prize to the Liberals at the last election.
They certainly didn't win the election because Abbott was at the helm!
Anyone who thinks they did is a naive fool.

" The day the Abbott government handed down its first budget in May last year was the day it sealed its own fate.....It's the Muslims. It's refugees. It's Labor. Or maybe, it's just Tony Abbott."

https://newmatilda.com/2015/03/01/tony-abbott%E2%80%99s-failing-search-scapegoats

Abbott and his cohorts are blaming everyone except where the real problem lies....with the PM.

None of the Liberal supporters seemed to have a problem with Rudd being thrown out of the top job after they were 'elected' by the people did they?
Abbott makes Rudd (and Gillard) seem almost 'normal'.....