Beach, your opinion, and if the kind of people holding the same extreme right wings views as you were in power there would be no voting at all, dictator for life. The Greens is a democratic party, unlike some.

Paul,

Considering that most Greens MPs are a collection of intellectual lightweights and whack jobs, you are throwing stones from a glass house.

Given that TA may not have mastered the labor art of spin and eloquently saying nothing (Christine whinge was hopeless too), what he did achieve firstly as opposition leader was to bring the coalition into power, and trash labor's reputation by exposing Labor's cock ups for what they were. I seriously doubt that his political career is over.

Next he began fixing as many of these cock ups as possible, and put in place Free trade agreements and begin to fix the budget which is never popular.

TA still has a large amount of support in the Liberal party, and amongst voters that like hate the PC waffle that dominates politics today and appreciate straight talk. For example his speech in the UK pissed off every left whinger in the UK, but given the disaster in Germany and EU, he is being taken far more seriously.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Nobody is taking Mr Abbott seriously.
He's in the same catgory as Donald Trump.
The only people taking them seriously are
their hard-core supporters, and they're in
the minority. Mr Abbott was ousted by his own
party. People got tired of his spin, three word
slogans, secrecy, being held for mugs, and
broken promises.
He's not coming back!

Shadow, coming from a supporter of a party that once put Pauline Hanson up for election. Look at some of the "talent" on the government benches Bronwyn Bishop, Cory Bernardi, Bill Heffernan etc. Then there is your country cousins politics very own Dad and Dave, Warren Truss and Barnaby Joyce. LOL.

You say you are an engineer, TA always stood for 'Tradesman's Assistant' the often not too bright, dumbo, who was only good for doing the unskilled hack work. TA that's you man Tony Abbott.

Foxy,

You are deluding yourself if you believe that no one takes TA seriously. While I never tried to suggest that TA was coming back as PM, it is clear that he has significant and deep rooted support within the coalition caucus and party. And now that TA is a back bencher, he is free to express his opinions and use his influence to keep the liberal party on the straight and narrow and prevent MT from going rogue as he did in 2009.

Paul,

Coming from a party that is left whinge version of One Nation, you are hardly in any position to criticise, especially with fringe dwellers like Soviet Rhiannon and the pinhead Hansen Young, or even the Greens candidate for Matraville Karel Solomon.

Then trying to link Abbott to a trade assistant on the basis of initials is feeble even for you.

Dear Shadow Minister,

You are the one deluding yourself.
The extreme conservatives did not succeed
in keeping Mr Abbott as leader of the party
or as Prime Minnister. He simply did not have
the mubers to support him which ever way you
slice it. He just does not have the numbers
required. Simple as that. He came up short!