The ex Rodent PM opens his mouth at last!

[finders]

I note with interest that the slimey little gutless wonder chose to speak to his suckhole yank neocon mates first.What a great Australian - NOT!


Howard breaks silence on election loss, defends legacy
March 6, 2008 - 6:53PM


Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard addresses Washington think-tank.


John Howard has launched a spirited defence of his legacy, breaking his silence following last year's election loss. While his coalition colleagues have been junking his policies since being tipped out of office last November, the former prime minister used a speech to a conservative US think tank to attack the Rudd government over industrial relations and Iraq.

 

[MSR273]

You forgot the best bit, the prestigous award he received. Looks like he has a great deal of respect internationally and is making shit loads of cash on the US talk circuit.

Probably laughing all the way to the bank as he looks at interest rates going up over here under labor, just as he predicted.

 

[bit_pattern]

^^ Cash does not equal respect...

But, yes, it is amusing the rodent has crawled from behind his rock. He is still all puffed up with righteous indignation, as if his opinion still means anything. It will be amusing to watch him whither in the realisation he is a bitter, forgotten old man. He will start to age very quickly then imo.

 

[Generalissimo]

You forgot the best bit, the prestigous award he received.

Let's wait until a prominent and respected body honours Mr. Howard in some way. A handful of fat cats from some conservative think tank sitting around slapping each other on the back does not equal prestige.

 

[Bomber32]

Just sour grapes from a bitter and twisted little twerp.

The Americans are more than welcome to the lying rodent for all I care.

 

[MSR273]

^^ Cash does not equal respect...

But, yes, it is amusing the rodent has crawled from behind his rock. He is still all puffed up with righteous indignation, as if his opinion still means anything. It will be amusing to watch him whither in the realisation he is a bitter, forgotten old man. He will start to age very quickly then imo.

Yup, soon he will be swooning aroung in a white dressing gown, devorcing his wife for someone younger and writing his autobiography.

 

[MSR273]

Just sour grapes from a bitter and twisted little twerp.

The Americans are more than welcome to the lying rodent for all I care.

Hmmm, so he is expressing the same views he had before his defeat, but now they are sour grapes.

 

[Juddism]

here's hoping he finds a nice pad in Crawford or DC and stays there for good...I recall a few threads carrying on about ex PM's opening their mouths, wonder what those some people think now that this piece of shit has opened his mouth?

 

[Jumpin' Jimmy]

You forgot the best bit, the prestigous award he received

The Irving Kristol award is a neo-w***er award. It may be prestigous but it is definitely not prestigious.

 

[MSR273]

The Irving Kristol award is a neo-w***er award. It may be prestigous but it is definitely not prestigious.

Only a small minded bitter person would deny John the honours he so richly deserves. He will truely be remembered internationally as one of Australias greatest prime ministers, you better get used to it.

 

[finders]

Only a small minded bitter person would deny John the honours he so richly deserves. He will truely be remembered internationally as one of Australias greatest prime ministers, you better get used to it.

It wont matter a tinkers cuss if the rodent is admired OS its locally that he will crave recognition and he aint going to get it!

Howard for most aussies is like being reminded of the dirty little family secret that nobody wants to talk about and that includes his own wonderfull former Liberal party mates!

He has no creditable legacy and should learn to keep his mealy mouth shut lest he look any worse - if thats possible

Try this for size for starters from todays SMH Just proves what an arrogant prick he was.



www.smh.com.auHome » National » Article


Howard ignored his own polling

Mark Davis Political Correspondent
March 7, 2008


SECRET research handed to the Howard government showed its $46 million taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote Work Choices failed dismally.

The research - based on polls of hundreds of people every fortnight from August 2005 to February 2006 - showed that weeks of TV advertising only served to entrench apprehension about Work Choices - which John Howard is still defending while on the lecture circuit in Washington.

Despite the evidence, the government pressed on with another $20 million in Work Choices publicity over the next 18 months.

Mr Howard told an audience at a Washington conservative think tank on Wednesday that it was a mistake for Labor to reverse the workplace changes.

"It would be the first time in 25 years that a major economic reform in my country has been reversed," he said. "In particular, bringing back the old unfair dismissal laws will stifle employment and growth in small business."

His first major speech since the election, in which he aggressively defended his legacy, came as the Herald obtained market research tracking surveys on the Work Choices advertising campaign.

They were obtained after an 18-month tussle with the Department of Workplace Relations, which put off releasing them under freedom of information laws until after the election.

As part of its original TV, radio and newspaper ads on Work Choices, the government spent $1.8 million engaging Colmar Brunton Social Research to track how the public was responding to the sales effort. Colmar Brunton began its surveys in early August on attitudes to the existing industrial relations system and the planned changes.

It polled samples of 500 people, comprising 400 employees and 100 non-employees, every fortnight until February 2006. By the end it had polled 6253 people.

Reports on the tracking research were handed to the government each fortnight.

They showed that at the start of the exercise, in early August 2005, sizeable majorities had positive attitudes towards the existing system and negative attitudes about planned changes. By the end, after the TV campaign had dominated the airwaves for weeks, opinion remained solidly against Work Choices.

The Colmar Brunton reports show that by February 2006 only 15 per cent of all those polled were satisfied with the government's planned changes, unchanged from the level of satisfaction before the ad campaign began.

By contrast, 65 per cent of employees were satisfied with the old system, most saying it was fair, protected employees, and allowed flexible working arrangements.

The surveys found that by the end of the ad campaign only 13 per cent of employees agreed that Work Choices would be fairer, and just 11 per cent agreed that it would protect employees.

Sixty-eight per cent agreed with the statement that Work Choices would benefit employers. Less than one in four thought Work Choices would be good for the economy, while 37 per cent said it would take the needs of small business into account.

 

[kirky]

Who cares what Howard thinks now. He is irrelevant. The people spoke last November and tossed both him and his government (which means his Workchoices policy) out.

He is still trying to find some relevance somewhere given he is only the 2nd PM to lose his seat at an election.

 

[Jumpin' Jimmy]

Only a small minded bitter person would deny John the honours he so richly deserves. He will truely be remembered internationally as one of Australias greatest prime ministers, you better get used to it.

Only the blind and blissfully ignorant will remember him for other than what he truly was. A xenophobic, war-mongering, arse-crawling sycophant.

Another sad failure of his was in educating you to spell properly.

 

[Perrin]

Only a small minded bitter person would deny John the honours he so richly deserves. He will truely be remembered internationally as one of Australias greatest prime ministers, you better get used to it.

By whom and for what reasons?

 

[Perrin]

Howard attacks the new government for reversing a largely unpopular policy when they have a clear mandate to do so. I think this old fella needs reminding that this is how democracy works.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

very interesting to hear what he has to say when he doesn't have to hide his more radical impulses under the cloak of democratic politics.

He really was a nasty piece of work.

It just emphasises how much better of Australia is without this malevolent clunky cultural warrior leading us

 

[Dippers Donuts]

Yup, soon he will be swooning aroung in a white dressing gown, devorcing his wife for someone younger and writing his autobiography.

I would actually have a modicum of respect for the dessicated rodent if he were to do so.

Seriously, has any ex politician disappeared into irrelevancy quicker than the rodent?

"Whaddaya say, let's get laid!"

 

[Clay Davis]

Love how he waits til he's out of the country to speak out. Brave man.

 

[year of the cat]

Only a small minded bitter person would deny John the honours he so richly deserves. He will truely be remembered internationally as one of Australias greatest prime ministers, you better get used to it.

You are living in fairy land. Howards legacy has already been destroyed - your little hero will be remembered as being prime minister in a period where Australia momentarily lost its soul and moral compass.

This article only confirms that he is a more articulate form of Hansen.


I can only assume you haven't got a mortgage.

 

[Juddism]

and the Liberals still haven't learnt their lesson regarding Workchoices...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/07/2182686.htm

 

[skipper kelly]

Tell the truth finders. As soon as you heard Howard speak you got an instant erection.

 

[MSR273]

Only the blind and blissfully ignorant will remember him for other than what he truly was. A xenophobic, war-mongering, arse-crawling sycophant.

Hey, I happen to like xenophobic, war-mongering, arse-crawling sycophants

Another sad failure of his was in educating you to spell properly.

States are responsible for education. If you spent less time obsessing over spelling you may have more time to learn about our political system.

 

[Jumpin' Jimmy]

Hey, I happen to like xenophobic, war-mongering, arse-crawling sycophants

Bad luck then. Go find another country to live in

States are responsible for education. If you spent less time obsessing over spelling you may have more time to learn about our political system.

Weak comeback.

The education systems, just like the hospital systems, went downhill rapidly under Little Johnny and Pete the Puppet who denied billions to the States for essential services whilst pissing it up against the wall on useless defence equipment and technology. Fancy letting idiots like Downer and Nelson make major decisions and commitments.

 

[Jumpin' Jimmy]

 

[Suspense]

Is he no longer a rodent?