Tony Abbott - New Opposition Leader

[bambbbam2]

Shame really.. I'm not a liberal party voter but someone like Malcolm I liked because he has real world business experience.. unlike the 'Mad Monk' Abbott..

 

[Dalescott]

As a Liberal party member, I can tell you that Malcolm Turnbull (better know as Malcolm in the middle), was not liked at branch level. Tony Abbott is a better reflection of membership at branch level. Having said that, he may not be acceptable to the Media, who by a large find him a large and easy target. He will need to bring some consensus to the liberal party, at all levels, but the sniping has started, with Judi Moylan making comments on the ABC. I will wait and see how he does, as I have learn't in Politics expect the unexpected, and be ready.

 

[Dee Thom]

I recon the political cartoonists would have an easyier job with Joe than Tony, but I could be wrong...............

Cheers Dee

 

[Keith009]

Of course even more interesting than the 42-41 vote was that there was 1 Turnbull supporter absent sick and 1 abstension.
I have to agree with an unnamed Coalition MP whose comment "We have cough*** ourselves" probably sums up the position perfectly.
At least there may now be a debate about the ETS which after all is a taxation bill that is hoped will change peoples behaviour.No more,no less.

I reckon that if Turnbull hadn't been so stubborn and ran, Hockey would've won. Or vice versa. They split a lot of the first pref votes amongst themselves from largely similar support bases (moderates would've voted for Turnbull; moderates and pragmatists for Hockey).

If anything they should've rolled Australia's highest ranking bimbo that is Julie Bishop but I suppose neither side can afford to lose the WA numbers.

But whatever... a great day for us watching the charade from the other side of the fence. I actually received a few congratulatory SMSes from some of my Liberal friends.

 

[albatross710]

Having said that, he may not be acceptable to the Media, who by a large find him a large and easy target.

Any chance we can petition the media to stop showing Tony Abbot in his budgies smugglers. Those pictures really do haunt me.

 

[medhead]

About time:!:

Finally a leader with back bone.

ejb

and the unified party supported him to the top spot so decisively....

Looks like a flash back to the howard/peacock years. This will be rather entertaining, just a shame it wasn't abbott and costello.....

 

[medhead]

As a Liberal party member, I can tell you that Malcolm Turnbull (better know as Malcolm in the middle), was not liked at branch level. Tony Abbott is a better reflection of membership at branch level.

Only because Howard, forced all the liberals out of the Liberal party during his time and stacked it with the right wing red necks left over from one nation. (no reflection on you intended with that opinion) It is only by mistake that some centralist liberals, like Turnbull, were let back into the party.

 

[oz_mark]

I reckon that if Turnbull hadn't been so stubborn and ran, Hockey would've won. Or vice versa. They split a lot of the first pref votes amongst themselves from largely similar support bases (moderates would've voted for Turnbull; moderates and pragmatists for Hockey).

I'm not convinced Hockey was really ready to make his run for leadership just yet. Seems he was talked into it.

 

[straitman]

I'm not convinced Hockey was really ready to make his run for leadership just yet. Seems he was talked into it.

I am in absolute agreement with you oz_mark. I think he would have ended up as another sacrificial lamb if he had won now :!:

 

[UP4014]

I'm not convinced Hockey was really ready to make his run for leadership just yet. Seems he was talked into it.

I think we know who ever leads now won't make it to the PM's chair. Hockey is better off waiting, Abbott will self destruct enroute to the next election result.

 

[ejb]

...highest ranking bimbo that is Julie Bishop.../quote]

Surely this title belongs around our Dep PM.

ejb

 

[Hvr]

I think we know who ever leads now won't make it to the PM's chair. Hockey is better off waiting, Abbott will self destruct enroute to the next election result.

Ah la Latham? Interesting how the Liberal party are seeking to emulate Labour in leadership turmoil of a few years ago.

Still the mad monk will get (tacit and undeclared) support from Labour because they will rightly perceive him as being unable to win an election especially from a first term government.

So who will be the next leader of the opposition and when?

Don't know who but am very sure it will be before the next election.

Interesting that Kevin has kept his religion very quiet recently. Maybe he can read the mood of the public at large that we are sick of subsidising an extreme lobby group who don't contribute to society at all and deny any responsability when they stuff up.

 

[codash1099]

Of course even more interesting than the 42-41 vote was that there was 1 Turnbull supporter absent sick and 1 abstension.

Er no, not an abstention. It was an informal vote.

If the pollies can't get it right in a field of 2, what hope is there for the great unwashed:?:

 

[auriga]

How very sad....

 

[drron]

Having met and talked to both Mark Latham and Tony Abbot they really are chalk and cheese.The political journey ahead will be totally different But perhaps the end result will be the same.
Now had they elected Wilson Tuckey that would have been a rerun-about time someone took an iron bar to that fellow.

 

[Keith009]

Now had they elected Wilson Tuckey that would have been a rerun-about time someone took an iron bar to that fellow.

Noooooooo, then it'd all be boring! My Liberal dream team would be Wilson Tuckey as Leader with Sophie Mirabella his deputy, together they'd be a formidable force to vanquish all those "political terrorists" who dare stand in their way.

 

[Ms Lucy]

My Liberal dream team would be Wilson Tuckey as Leader with Sophie Mirabella his deputy

EEEKKKK! Stuff of nightmares!! (I'd have to emigrate across the ditch to the Land of the Long White Cloud if that combination was ever elected.) :shock:

 

[straitman]

Noooooooo, then it'd all be boring! My Liberal dream team would be Wilson Tuckey as Leader with Sophie Mirabella his deputy, together they'd be a formidable force to vanquish all those "political terrorists" who dare stand in their way.

EEEKKKK! Stuff of nightmares!! (I'd have to emigrate across the ditch to the Land of the Long White Cloud if that combination was ever elected.) :shock:

That would be entertaining.
First the leadership combination and second the extreme overcrowding of the east islands.

 

[medhead]

...highest ranking bimbo that is Julie Bishop...

Surely this title belongs around our Dep PM.

ejb

Julia may be a lot of things, but she is no bimbo.

Certainly not in the league of Julie Bishop, whose best heckle I've heard was about spending too much time in the naughty corner. Whoooo, that hurts

 

[Ms Lucy]

Certainly wouldn't describe Julia G as a bimbo!

(Julie B, though, hasn't done a lot to interest thus far)