Should Abbott step down?

[Black Orchid]

I think many people were hoping that Abbott would be like the second coming of Howard and fix the mess that the tag team of Rudd and Gillard have left us with.

The only person up to that job would have been Peter Costello.

There is no-one on either side of politics that I would vote for at present.

[mellie]

How long has Abbott been in again?

Look, if we gave Labor 7 years to fuck the country, surely we can give Abbott a little longer to try and fix it.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

[Neferti]

Just in via EMAIL. We Aussies are quick at it.

When confirming his decision to honour the Prince of Edinburgh with an Australian knighthood, Prime Minister Tony Abbott conceded he didn't consult colleagues before his announcement. If given the chance, what might ministers have advised the Prime Minister around the cabinet table?

PM: It's great to be Australian. How do you like the table?

Joe Hockey: It's round!

PM: Exactly. Just like you used to be, Joe. Now, now, don't sulk. Of course it's round. Think classical British history. Knights of the...Sorry, Julie. Anyway, talking of knights.

Scott Morrison: Oh, Tony, you shouldn't have, but I'll accept any honour you might wish to bestow.

PM: Ha ha, good one, Scott. I already made you an admiral until you ran out of boats. No. I'm going to knight Phil.

Chorus: Phil who?

PM: His royal highness.

Cabinet members: (long silence. Sounds of indrawn breath)

Julie Bishop: You're such a jester Tony.

PM: No, fair dinkum. Blow for multiculturalism. Phil the Greek, by way of the Mother Country, crown on our fair shores. That sort of thing. Should be able to sell it big on the foreign circuit. What are you doing back here, anyway?

Malcolm Turnbull: He's not Greek. More Russian, actually. And the round table was a legend, not classical history.

PM: You looking for a shirt-fronting, Malcolm?

Mathias Cormann: Philip's wife is practically German. And she's got the crown.

Eric Abetz: And what's wrong with that?

PM: She's a majestic English rose! Just like me. Anyway, we're off subject. Australia's gonna have a Duke for a Sir, and that's that.

Turnbull: May as well make Fergie a Dame!

Warren Truss: Ah, the Fergie, wonderful machine. Could pull stumps out of a swamp all day long. Deceptively strong little thing.

Bishop: WARREN!!!!

Ian Macfarlane: He's talking about the tractor. They were around in the old days when we used to make things in Australia.

PM: Exactly. Traction. That's what we're after. We've scraped the barnacles off the hull and we're gonna make it gleam and cut through the waves. A knight for a new day.

Turnbull (whispering behind hand): He's finally blown a gasket.

Bishop (also muttering behind hand): Flipped his wig.

Hockey: Knew it ever since he made me Treasurer.

PM (leaping on the table, brandishing his dubbing sword): I heard that! Take their names, Peta! Their names!

Peta Credlin: There there, Prime Minister. Here's a pill.

Turnbull, Bishop and Hockey (in unison): Better make it one of those special ones they gave Kevin.

[Black Orchid]

Bring back Peter Costello he will sort them all out.

[Neferti]

Bring back Peter Costello he will sort them all out.

Pekerswiss. Peter Costello should have told John Howard to get stuffed. He didn't. You really want somebody like that as the CC&BW of Oz?

[Black Orchid]

Bring back Peter Costello he will sort them all out.

Pekerswiss. Peter Costello should have told John Howard to get stuffed. He didn't. You really want somebody like that as the CC&BW of Oz?

I was reading an article recently where John Howard was saying that they were going to lose the election no matter who was at the helm so he thought it better that he go down instead of tarnishing Peter Costello.

Makes sense to me but who knows?

[IQS.RLOW]

Costello is as wet as Turnbull.
Neither of them had the ticker for PM.

Abbott will go as PM to the next election, guaranteed.

All they need to do is run adverts reminding everyone how bad the ALP is. Would be cheap to do, just play sound bites from Kev, Gillard, Swan and Shortshiten and the ads will write themselves.

[Black Orchid]

Abbott will go as PM to the next election, guaranteed.

If he does I doubt he will win. I really do not think he is a good leader.

[mantra]

All they need to do is run adverts reminding everyone how bad the ALP is. Would be cheap to do, just play sound bites from Kev, Gillard, Swan and Shortshiten and the ads will write themselves.

People are getting sick of the government relentlessly blaming Labor for everything that goes wrong. It's time for them to come up with some fresh excuses. Maybe they could start being honest and accept some responsibility for their own mistakes. That would be a novelty.

[Rorschach]

All they need to do is run adverts reminding everyone how bad the ALP is. Would be cheap to do, just play sound bites from Kev, Gillard, Swan and Shortshiten and the ads will write themselves.

People are getting sick of the government relentlessly blaming Labor for everything that goes wrong. It's time for them to come up with some fresh excuses. Maybe they could start being honest and accept some responsibility for their own mistakes. That would be a novelty.

Oh rubbish!!!
Labor supporters are
Progs are
Just what have they been blaming Labor for that isn't Labor's fault mantra?