Sunday, August 16, 2015

One Term Tony Abbott, the first one term Prime Minister since World War 2

Abbott is often viewed through the prism of the issues he opposes – marriage equality, asylum seekers, climate change.

Tony Abbott is electoral poison to Victorians. Go Victoria. It has always been the state of sophistication. Mathew Guy has correctly pointed out that One Term Tony Abbott is poisoning the well of goodwill in the electorate and, of course, Guy is trying to distance himself from the electoral poison that Abbott is now widely understood to be to save his own political career.

And, apparently, One Term Tony was in South Australia this week, for the second time in just about as many weeks, because it is one of his most marginal states. Go South Australia. What was he doing, promising the state the submarine contract yet again. How many times has he dangled the submarine contract carrot to South Australia? It is so many times now that I am sure the Japanese will be writing One Term Tony Abbott a please explain letter.

So is that 2 states that Abbott has got offside?


So what was Matthew Guy talking about? One Term Tony Abbott said at the last election that he would allow a conscious vote on gay marriage (one amount of goodwill), which as we now know is another lie that One Term Tony Abbott told to get elected. To make sure a conscious vote wouldn't happen, One Term Tony Abbott, unusually, bought all of the National Party MPs into the vote, to bolster his conservative view. Then he threatened his ministers with the sack if they dared to cross the floor against the decision, when the Liberal party has prided itself on allowing its MPs to cross the floor on any decision they felt they couldn't support. (would that be 100 years of goodwill poisoned?) This is often and vocally sited as a difference between the Liberal and Labor Party.

I think I feel a shift further towards a One Term Prime Minister coming on. That is if Abbott makes it as leader to the next election which is also now looking decidedly unlikely. It looks increasingly like we will have a one term Liberal Government which Tony Abbott will most likely not be leading at the next election.

You know, it is not even so much that I am morally opposed to everything that One Term Tony stands for, it is the fact that he was a pathological liar to win the last election, that is the problem I have with him; bringing politics into further disrepute, so much so that I feel the only alternative left to save faith in our democratic system is to establish an integrity commision that would review politicians. Not to mention the other problems I have with One term Tony - using refugees as a political pawn, using terrorism to distract the public from the mess he's made of the economy and his term of government, and denigrating a whole group of people, Muslims, in the process, deliberately introducing policies to widen the gap between rich and poor, are all up there too with the reasons I feel One Term Tony is the worst politician Australia has ever had.


One further fact of note, Abbott, Morrison, Abetz, who all crushed the vote on gay marriage, are all the devout Christians. Abbott's proposed remedy for this issue is a plebiscite which is the Christian Lobby's preferred option seen as the perfect vehicle to kill of the issue all together.

Poisoning the good will of the electorate, yes, I think so.

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