Mega Thread All things Tony Abbott

[pjcrows]

Morrison on ABC saying that he supports the PM.

Until he doesn't.

 

[Boss351]

Australian public are morons, anyone with half a brain could see what a disaster Abbott would be for the nation, as much as I can't stand him and complete opposite with his ideology you know what you get with Abbott , this crazy idea people have about Turnbull like he's wise, compassionate and future thinking is a complete furfy, he's a wolf in sheeps clothing, blatantly miss informs while smiling as he's sprouting complete crap, talks in circles while avoiding any questions, talks down to anyone that dares to question his lies, all while looking after his big business mates and lining his pockets.

Julie Bishop gawd her misery guts hard head and sour puss, zero compassion with this Liberal mob, bunch of 3 word slogan flat earthers, I have zero faith in the electorate , Libs will change leaders and clowns will re-elect this mob in for a 2nd term, Australia will continue its path to being a mushroom society kept in the dark, fed fear and bullshit and be a backwater nation, as Kenny Hinkley says 'you get what you deserve"......god help us, the countries doomed

 

[Bomberboyokay]

They've got preferential voting in the Liberal party. I imagine they'll both run and there's a good chance that whichever one doesn't win will be the other's deputy.

They'll determine the one challenger before the actual vote.

 

[Kildonan]

Weren't the Coalition elected with a platform of stability and economic competence?
They have only shown us the opposite.

They spent so much time and money dismantling the previous government's work, celebrating each destructive action.
They justified their actions on the need to reduce the deficit, they demonised debt without ever recognising that the debt provides us with actual real infrastructure that often pays for itself or provides jobs and opportunity.

Instead of blaming the Labor government for all their woes, they should in fact be blaming the Tea Party for being poor puppeteers

 

[Gough]

A job she is qualified for. It's time to install Turnbull- keep his more left of centre policies in check and end Shortens political career in 18 months time. Win,win.

She was a better and will be a longer serving PM than Abbott, the last PM that got as far out of his depth as Abbott is was Harold Holt.

 

[Theseventhhamster]

I wonder how many notifications Dan has?

 

[madmug]

She was a better and will be a longer serving PM than Abbott, the last PM that got as far out of his depth as Abbott is was Harold Holt.

Nice one centurion!

 

[Ice-Wolf]

She was a better and will be a longer serving PM than Abbott, the last PM that got as far out of his depth as Abbott is was Harold Holt.

At least Holt had a chinese sub to pick him up, I'm afraid Abbott is going to be left to drown.

 

[Grin]

Good thread.
Would read again.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

I'm starting to come round.

 

[Grin]

Perhaps a positive out of this is both parties can no longer point the finger at their opposite and say "they're the worst". They both have nothing left to lose now, Malcolm/Julie (or Bill in a year and a bit), show us some vision. It would probably work as a welcome change of tactics.

Yes, perhaps the most positive thing about Australian politics is that we are hopefully at about the lowest point.

 

[Crawb]

Surely they bring all this to a head before Tuesday's party room meeting. I mean it's a whole bloody week of speculation - it'll look horrible politically.

 

[Pessimistic]

Hell. Certainly be unique

 

[Nightowl]

Dan26 - was last seen Nov 8, 2014.
Says it all really.

 

[Lebbo73]

Australian public are morons, anyone with half a brain could see what a disaster Abbott would be for the nation, as much as I can't stand him and complete opposite with his ideology you know what you get with Abbott , this crazy idea people have about Turnbull like he's wise, compassionate and future thinking is a complete furfy, he's a wolf in sheeps clothing, blatantly miss informs while smiling as he's sprouting complete crap, talks in circles while avoiding any questions, talks down to anyone that dares to question his lies, all while looking after his big business mates and lining his pockets.

Julie Bishop gawd her misery guts hard head and sour puss, zero compassion with this Liberal mob, bunch of 3 word slogan flat earthers, I have zero faith in the electorate , Libs will change leaders and clowns will re-elect this mob in for a 2nd term, Australia will continue its path to being a mushroom society kept in the dark, fed fear and bullshit and be a backwater nation, as Kenny Hinkley says 'you get what you deserve"......god help us, the countries doomed

I didn't know that you could jumble a whole lot of words together like this and get a couple of likes!

 

[Frank Grimes]

I just read the OP for the first time. Seriously funny stuff.

 

[Groucho]

When I'm feeling a little low I come onto this thread,always makes me smile. Dan's a real comedian.

 

[Moo]

Morrison on ABC saying that he supports the PM.

Until he doesn't.

Morrison will be the next PM.

Book mark it

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

Dan26 - was last seen Nov 8, 2014.
Says it all really.

It really does. Someone that unbelievably keen to make Abbott look good would almost certainly have other sock-puppet accounts to log into.

 

[Jimmybob]

I didn't know that you could jumble a whole lot of words together like this and get a couple of likes!

Well it is the best post in this thread so far.

 

[Nightowl]

It really does. Someone that unbelievably keen to make Abbott look good would almost certainly have other sock-puppet accounts to log into.

... Lebbo ???

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

...as Kenny Hinkley says 'you get what you deserve"......god help us, the countries doomed

Nah, she'll be right.

The Libs are acting because they know they'll lose their jobs if they stay with Abbott. Bishop has the Asbestos Lawyer thing that doesn't look that good, but apparently Turnbull and her are good friends and the decision will come down to electability.

Turnbull would surely get them the most votes as Climate Change deniers aren't going to preference Labor ahead of the LNP (Bishop is pro-action anyway) and he has courted the centre for a reasonable amount of time. If he suggests his mis-steps as Comms Minister were about him being a loyal minister then he will get away with it. After all Shorten will say the same thing about his behaviour when supporting whatever Gillard said even though he hadn't heard it.

However, them and their colleagues may believe the hype on the Coalition's supposed 'good performance' in Foreign Affairs. If they do, they'll go with Bishop who has already had the glossy mag articles and Murdoch backing (Abbott had apparently lost support well before the QLD results, so this thing could be long in the making). However a different take on the foreign affairs success would be:

• We said we thought we'd found the missing plane. We hadn't.
• We picked a fight with Russia we couldn't win and which limited access to MH17 for everyone.
  
• We encroached on Indonesian waters (good luck questioning them on West Papua now).
• We weren't very conciliatory when revelations about the phone tapping of SBY and his wife came out. Abbott said the surveillance was reasonable.
• We raided the lawyer (and the former spy) who were helping out East Timor in their case against us spying on them when we wanted the best deal for taking their gas reserves.
  
• We cut foreign aid substantially.
  
• After years of negotiation we gave in to Japan, Korea and China on FTA deals (time will tell the fall-out of that).
• We tried and failed to not talk about Climate Change at the G20 we were hosting.
• We refused to help medical professionals assist with the Ebola crisis, despite other nations doing so.
• We told Scotland not to secede.
  
• We embarrassed the Queen (that can be written off as a Captain's call, though).
• Our own media wasn't allowed to go with Abbott and Bishop to their visits in Iraq & Afghanistan
• Peter Greste was in prison for 400 days, and his colleagues remain there.

I'm sure there are others (and I don't mean slip of the tongues like 'Canadia' or keeping foreign leaders waiting at overseas conferences or at home as he also did to the Indonesian VP), but that's what springs to mind for now.

 

[Geelong_Bisons_#36]

I just read the OP for the first time. Seriously funny stuff.

I had a good laugh too. Especially the bits about Abbott's intelligence!
But the funniest thing was that the OP only had 1 like.
Probably Tony's account

 

[Geelong_Bisons_#36]

 

[questionable]

Nah, she'll be right.

The Libs are acting because they know they'll lose their jobs if they stay with Abbott. Bishop has the Asbestos Lawyer thing that doesn't look that good, but apparently Turnbull and her are good friends and the decision will come down to electability.

Turnbull would surely get them the most votes as Climate Change deniers aren't going to preference Labor ahead of the LNP (Bishop is pro-action anyway) and he has courted the centre for a reasonable amount of time. If he suggests his mis-steps as Comms Minister were about him being a loyal minister then he will get away with it. After all Shorten will say the same thing about his behaviour when supporting whatever Gillard said even though he hadn't heard it.

However, them and their colleagues may believe the hype on the Coalition's supposed 'good performance' in Foreign Affairs. If they do, they'll go with Bishop who has already had the glossy mag articles and Murdoch backing (Abbott had apparently lost support well before the QLD results, so this thing could be long in the making). However a different take on the foreign affairs success would be:

• We said we thought we'd found the missing plane. We hadn't.
• We picked a fight with Russia we couldn't win and which limited access to MH17 for everyone.
  
• We encroached on Indonesian waters (good luck questioning them on West Papua now).
• We weren't very conciliatory when revelations about the phone tapping of SBY and his wife came out. Abbott said the surveillance was reasonable.
• We raided the lawyer (and the former spy) who were helping out East Timor in their case against us spying on them when we wanted the best deal for taking their gas reserves.
  
• We cut foreign aid substantially.
  
• After years of negotiation we gave in to Japan, Korea and China on FTA deals (time will tell the fall-out of that).
• We tried and failed to not talk about Climate Change at the G20 we were hosting.
• We refused to help medical professionals assist with the Ebola crisis, despite other nations doing so.
• We told Scotland not to secede.
  
• We embarrassed the Queen (that can be written off as a Captain's call, though).
• Our own media wasn't allowed to go with Abbott and Bishop to their visits in Iraq & Afghanistan
• Peter Greste was in prison for 400 days, and his colleagues remain there.

I'm sure there are others (and I don't mean slip of the tongues like 'Canadia' or keeping foreign leaders waiting at overseas conferences or at home as he also did to the Indonesian VP), but that's what springs to mind for now.

remember bishop's cringeworthy swipe at obama (only after he'd left the country of course) because he dared to mention the great barrier reef in the context of climate change? pathetic and embarrassing.