Dark times
I am so concerned by this Tony Abbott thing. I mean, who are they kidding? This is the institutionalisation of the right in Australia. Sophie Mirabella, who has always been my nemesis (and she knows it; I sent her an email once late at night telling her so), is now in a position of raised influence and must be stopped. Minchin the Foul is kingmaker. This is absurd. Surely there will be either a split or an assassination. We enter dark times.
Bishop, I note, is still entrenched as deputy, serving her leader, whoever that may be. Perhaps I was wrong; this may prove to be a very smart move on her part, enabling her to step forward as the consensus candidate at some point in the future when the Liberal party has so terribly damaged its relationship with the female half of the Australian population through the excesses of Abbott and co. that the only possible way of maintaining some kind of electoral significance is to propel Julie Bishop into the spotlight, I was going to say blinking like a possum but as she is renowned for her blue steel gaze, I would imagine she would probably instead try to stare down said spotlight.
The spotlight would win. That is all.
Liam wrote:
Funny that. I once sent a very very drunk email to Julia Gillard when she was Shadow Immigration despairing of the Labor Party, couched in shamefully abusive tones about her “demonisation” of asylum seekers. The next day in my inbox, written at about 6am, lay a fresh firey blast from Julia herself saying that she never demonised asylum seekers, she was spokesperson for a fair policy set democratically by a Labor caucus, and that I should get over myself.
I’ve been on the Julia for PM train ever since.
Speaking of which if you read no other furious sprays today read Andrew Elder’s.
arleeshar wrote:
Ah, Andrew Elder:
If I were Kellie O’Dwyer or Paul Fletcher I’d walk into the party room with an iron bar and beat the shit out of Wilson Tuckey; lucky they didn’t preselect me, eh.
Patrick (not verified) wrote:
Since when had Abbott had a problem with women? I never knew that wanting to discourage people killing unborn babies was an anti-woman position.
Patrick (not verified) wrote:
As confirmed by this poll:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/tony-abbott-outlines-how-he-says-kevin-rudds-ets-will-hurt-australia/story-e6freuzr-1225806908826
In my opinion Abbott’s soft underbelly is not his moral anti-abortion position but his activities in union busting and aggressive free trade positions. Abbott will need to win folk that are inclined towards left wing economic positions, the Howard battlers so to say.
That would appear to be where he is vulnerable.
arleeshar wrote:
well, in Abbott’s case, it is. And if you ‘never knew’ that such positions are often anti-woman, then I would suggest that is probably about a failure to understand history.
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