otb,

Oh excellent!

I love this:

"You are shamelessly one-eyed and unreasonable in your sledging of Fox and Suseonline."

From the master-sledger himself!

From the forum's most accomplished one-eyed unreasonable aficionado, no less!

"You deny them the right to think and speak for themselves...'

Er... how does that go? Have I a master code that stops them posting a reply? My stuff is small-fry compared to your past dirty work in that area. You're a grand master at misrepresenting fellow posters and insinuating all sorts of things on their behalf.

"....You scoff and demand that they be 'ladies'.

Um...where have I demanded that they be 'ladies'? They can identify as teapots for all I care. I'm more interested in their reasons for backing Magnificent Mal.

"...Presumably all 'ladies' are automatons who are supposed to follow the Top Dog, yourself!"

Out comes otb on his shiny steed, gallantly protecting the ladies...which is a nice change from his usual line of femi-bashing.

Excellent, otb - you're making progress!

"The posters you criticise are far more convincing in their support of MT than you are in your carping, vexatious, knee-jerk opposition."

All righty then!

Dear Poirot,

I respect your opinion but I don't agree
with it.

Anyway, I shall leave my judgements until
closer to the election.

As far as I'm concerned - it's too earlier
yet to judge Malcolm Turnbull. He does have
to contend with the right-wing of the Party
while himself being accused a Leftie by the
Party. Which I very much doubt that he is.
He's not more a Leftie than Sir Robert Menzies
was.

Quite right Foxy. It is early in the day for people like Poirot to write this PM off yet.
Turnbull has more PM credibility in his little finger than Shorten ever will.

I can't believe that Poirot is not more pleased that her hated Abbott has been ousted.
There is no pleasing some people...

Foxy,

Fair enough, we'll see.

Suse,

"I can't believe that Poirot is not more pleased that her hated Abbott has been ousted.
There is no pleasing some people..."

Watching Abbott being rolled by Mal was one of the most entertaining evenings I've spent.

However....I'm more interested in the foundations of a party's agenda than the window dressing in the top job. When I see a shift away from extreme neocon policy, I'll recognise and praise it. I have seen no shift so far.

I'll just mention that I do have my criticisms of Labor policy in some areas, not the least being offshore detention. I had a brief twitter discussion with a fed Labor Member recently on that subject (because you can do that kind of thing on twitter if you maintain respect). He said to me that as far as he and Labor were concerned our responsibility to asylum seekers was to keep them safe (although his idea of "safe" appears to be sending them to psychological and physical abuse on Nauru & Manus)....and all that was what we had to do because of something he termed "the bigger picture".

Obviously I rejected his stance in respectful terms.

Labor also colluded with the govt to alter legislation on the legality of our offshore camps, in so defeating the High Court bid.

My point being that I can disagree with Labor policies, however, the tsunami of Coalition lies, deceit and right-wing policies are another matter.

Poirot, "My point being that I can disagree with Labor policies"

BS, you are doing backflips. So superficial. Nothing of substance. No solutions.

You are Tinsel - the old leaden type and poisonous.

Hello everyone. I'm new to this Forum - introduced to it by a friend you all know very well!
For what it's worth I do not like any politician (except maybe Julie Bishop - she has more balls than all the male politicians from all parties put together!) Why? Because they're like bananas - they start out green, end up yellow and most of them are bent!!
I just wish one of them would get on and do the job.
The only thing I am grateful for is that we're not subjected to the pathetic system the Americans are subjected to!!