Re: Republican of the Year
Reply #47 –
Abbott's fall from grace shows the enormous gulf between opposition leader and prime minister. As opposition leader, all Abbott had to do was to say 'no' and repeat rehearsed lines about poor economic management and broken promises. As prime minister, he has to implement policy, explain why hard decisions have to be made, keep his party in line and negotiate with the cross benches, and he is absolute rubbish at all of that. On top of that there is his unbelievable hubris, inability to open his mouth without putting his foot in it, poor political judgement, disconnection from the general public, poor policy choices and ridiculous "captain's calls".
I visited Scotland the day after Abbott made his inappropriate comments about the independence referendum and I was a little concerned about how the Scots would respond to us as Aussies. I shouldn't have worried, everyone said that Abbott was well known for talking crap and they knew that most Aussies have a lick more sense. However, they did wonder how we could have elected such a d1ckhead as our prime minister