runner,

You can wail all you like, but Abbott was a disaster - his party recognises that.

It's only the far right who are jumping up and down because their hero has just been punted into the stratosphere.

Whooooosh!....I did but see him passing by - and yet I'll laugh until I cry.

(No extra charge for the verse:)

o sung wu,

Yes, according to Morrison, Abbott - who is often praised for his loyalty - decided when the chips were down that Mr Hockey was expendable.

Seems the legend of Abbott's loyalty was a little overblown.

runner,

Can I just add that I glean a hypocritical note to your post above.

You write:

"I dare say Poirot it just shows that regressives are nearly always about playing the man and not the principle..."

After which, you go onto say:

"Turnbull, Gillard and Rudd obviously hold the secularist dogma that the end justifies the means.....At least he can join Gillard and Bishop in trying to spin their way into believing their treachery was for the nation!...."

My, my - if I didn't know better, I would think you are playing the man, not the principle.

Funny that!

Well said Poirot, although I doubt nasty little Runner will care a jot about what anyone else says about his hero Abbott, or his ancient holy views.

After all the ranting, raving and crowing from you when Gillard and Rudd were knifed Runner...well...right back at you!

I seriously doubt anyone at all could have done a worse job as PM than Abbott, so I feel more positive about our political future now than I have in years.
Bring it on.

OK, so Tony is not the true hard man he would like to be, & we need, but to go to another pretty boy is just stupidity.

Just to put this garbage in perspective, the last arrogant smooth talking pretty boy, for whom appearance is more important than substance, [remember the hair drier incident] was one Kevin Rudd.

Although some won't admit it to themselves, thinking folk know what a catastrophe Rudd was, & now we have damn near his clone. He may not have Rudd's fetching lock of hair draped carefully across his forehead, but the space behind that forehead is just as empty of anything useful.

Our grandkids are going to be still paying for our stupidity in electing Rudd, but you can bet they will curse our memory for making the same mistake again, with this clone, Turnbull.

Having seen what a disaster Obama is & Rudd was. We should have a ten foot high sign in front od every pooling station saying, "Even god can not protect you from empty headed orators. You must do it yourself".

Hasbeen,

"OK, so Tony is not the true hard man he would like to be..."

What's that supposed to mean?

He couldn't get his policies through because they were duds and/or his team apparently can't negotiate.

Abbott swaggered around as if he was a "hard man" - unfortunately he looked more like a "try-hard man"...which was the problem.

The Obama administration has lifted the US economy and US employment - after Georgie Dubya stuffed up everything in order to pay for his illegal war.

The Abbott administration was going down the same track. Australia's paltry 0.2% quarterly growth was only achieved because of increased defence spending, somewhere in the range of 40 odd billion.

Apart from a disastrous drop in consumer confidence, private investment and growth, here's what numpty Abbott and his colleagues have done to our bottom line:

Net govt debt is at $238.7 billion or 14.8% of GDP - up from $153.0 billion or 10.1% in June 2013.

Whadaya reckon, Hasbeen?

Hi Poirot,

Hassy, Runner and OTB are still shell shocked by the downfall of Fearless Leader and are likely to be more incoherent that usual. These guys are well known for posting verbal diarrhea on the forum. OTB with his paranoia rantings, Runner with his biblical clap trap and Hassy, well Hassy is just known for being, Hassy the incoherent.

Yes a truly Churchillian quote that one from Hassy.

"OK, so Tony is not the true hard man he would like to be..." What a profound statement is that one, more like gar gar nonsense.

Do you think Tone will shirt-front Turnbull any time soon? LOL.