Abbott on Abbott

Tony Abbott defines his ideology:

Ideologically, Abbott doesn’t like to be pigeonholed and he is indeed hard to describe with one label. “Great  Big New Tax” is misleading. He’s negative on environmental questions but on a range of policy issues he’s much more than negative. He was never positive on industrial relations and once his tough attitudes on welfare might have been labelled “negative”, but the debate has shifted; it is now about a "war" on middle class entitlements. 

He describes himself as both devoid of policy alternatives and negative. “A good leader, I mean every successful national leader, has transcended policy.”

 

And if the tax comes in and industry limps on?

Probably OTT, and completely baseless, but I'll post it anyway:

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has told a gathering of Australia’s manufacturers they must fight the carbon tax or their industry will die… 

"It can’t be fixed, it has to be fought, and if it’s not fought, the manufacturing sector in this country, I regret to say, is almost certain to die," he said. 

"I think this is as stark as that, the choice that you face - do you fight or do you die a horrible screaming death?" 

"Do you die or will you be given a nausea-inducing drug, strapped to a chair with your eyelids pinned open and forced to watch hours of films of extreme violence?"

 

The apocalyptic tradition continues

Rapture 1:

Outside Harold Camping’s Alameda house at 6:01 p.m. on Sunday, very little (save a cloud of shame and regret) hung over the false prophet’s abode where he and his family waited for the rapture. Camping had used numerology and The Bible to make a proclamation that he and his Family Radio followers would be beamed to heaven at 6:00 p.m. on May 21.

My Rapture :

TV show transcript with Our Lord the Esteemed Opposition leader.

Treacherous Turnbull

No one is asking Malcolm Turnbull to stop using facts, but his fellow conservative party Liberals are entitled to ask why is he mentioning a policy of the British Conservative Government?

Yet here he is on Lateline, treacherously mentioning the British Conservative Prime Minister’s emissions reduction policy:

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, it is - the British Conservative Party has got a very different approach to climate change to the Liberal Party of Australia, which of course is its counterpart…
And the conservatives and David Cameron in particular take the view that there is an enormous opportunity to get onto the front foot and get into a leadership role in terms of clean technology, low-emission technology, that this is a coming technological revolution, it’s going to be - just like the information revolution or the industrial revolution, the green tech or clean tech revolution will be as significant as that as we hopefully move to de-carbonise the world’s economy.
Now, that is a very important technological shift. Britain has a prime minister with vision who wants to be part of that change. 

Normally it is a sackable offence to even acknowledge climate change, let alone mention climate change policy -particularly of another conservative government. Abbott must sack Turnbull immediately.

But then I’d be pretending, wouldn’t I?

Reader Jicks complains:

In your interview with Tony Abbott you called him ‘Our Lord the Esteemed Leader’ whenever addressing him. It sounds.... well I cringed a little inside each time. He is the leader of the Opposition.... how about ‘Tony’ or ‘Mr Abbott’? I mean, when he’s the PM, sure, you’ll then call him ‘Our Lord the Esteemed Leader’, right? Conservatism is about keeping standards - of civility and respect for Office.

I’m torn on this one.