He kept the limelight and lied about trying to make a decision re the government with that other Independent moron Oakeshott... but both were never going to support the Coalition.
Here's his latest rant.
Windsor calls out Abbott: 'You'd do anything but sell your arse'
* by: By Malcolm Farr, National Political Editor
* From: news.com.au
* August 16, 2012 5:16PM
"If he had been asked to put in place an emissions trading scheme or a carbon tax, for that matter, he would have done it," independent Tony Windsor said in a savage attack on the Opposition Leader.
"The fact that he was not asked was a very, very good judgement, in my view."
Mr Windsor stunned the House by taking crude and stinging shots at the Opposition Leader who had just accused Julia Gillard of effectively selling out on a carbon tax to form a government.
The Opposition Leader has denied the Windsor claims, which erupted as Parliament ended a week of drama over asylum seekers and the the operation of carbon pricing.
Mr Windsor called Mr Abbott "an absolute disgrace" and said the Opposition Leader had promised to introduce the same carbon pollution reduction program the Labor government is now pursuing.
Mr Windsor said Mr Abbott had offered to do just about anything for support to head a Coalition minority government after the 2010 election.
He said: "He begged for the job and he made the point, not only to me but to others that were in that negotiating period, that he would do anything to get that job, anything to get that job.
"And you would well remember and your colleagues should be aware, that the only codicil that you put on that (was), `I will do anything , Tony (Windsor) to get that job. The only thing I wouldn't do is to sell my arse'."
Mr Windsor's outburst was impromptu and surprised his staff as much as MPs. It was a savage reply to Opposition claims Ms Gillard had broken her promise to the electorate to gain power. What a wanker.
Mr Windsor went back to that 17-day negotiation period after which enough cross-bench MPs backed Labor to allow it to form a minority government.
"The decision to do something about climate change (by Ms Gillard)...was a condition of the formation of government," said Mr Windsor.
"The Leader of the Opposition knows that very well because on a number of occasions he actually begged for the job, begged for the job. You've never denied it Tony, you've never denied it and you won't."
A spokesman for Mr Abbott said Mr Windsor had "absolutely no credibility" because he had in the past claimed the Opposition Leader hadn't wanted the job.
The spokesman pointed to an interview in October last year in which he said Mr Abbott didn't want to head a minority government.
"I got the sense that during the first week of negotiations that Tony Abbott probably was more interested in another election," said Mr Windsor then. yeah, lots of begging there
"I think that was being reinforced from outside. I got a number of phone calls. There was a lot of noise about."
But today he told Parliament Mr Abbott had told him, "I will do anything, anything, to get this job." Mr Windsor said: "They were the comments, and people know that, and they should know it, because you are an absolute disgrace in the way in which you are wandering around on this issue.
"You have exactly the same target as the emissions trading scheme pricing arrangements. You have exactly the same target in terms of the 1990 levels by 2020.
"And you have the audacity to actually say to people that you are going to achieve that target through a much more expensive arrangement than putting a price on carbon particularly given the history that you have on this issue."
Once more the bitter and twisted Windsor loses it.
