The Liberals must act on Abbott

It's clear as crystal now. Abbott has won their election (through lies and deceit) but after just 3 months the howls of protest are nationwide and apolitical. Abbott is an ideological incompetent fool, who's policies consist of slogans and are only about as real as his Christian empathy anyway. His Gonski sloganeering for example. He is a baffoon not capable of leading Australia out of a wet paper bag let alone through the complexity of today's world.

The answer is simple. The Liberal party must act. Not just for their own political hyde that will surely be ripped off come next election if this continues, but for the national interest. Surely within the cabinet now the rumblings of panic must be reaching a crescendo. It's time for the Liberals to FFS do something. Replace the nut. How about Malcolm Turnbull?

Truth to tell, it’s not just the Indonesians loving this. Forty-something per cent of Australians are taking vast delight in Abbott’s discomfiture and the Indonesians know it. 

For Abbott there are no good outcomes. Now, the only way of saving face with the bogans he courted to get into office is to posture as Ironman Abbott standing up to a bunch of slit-eyed Muslim darkies – but I doubt if the rest of the cabinet, or the Big End of Town, are going to let him go down that track. 

In the meantime the Indonesians are going to make him sweat. They’re not just going to let the asylum seeker boats keep sailing; they’re going to positively encourage them. Not only can they destroy Abbott’s standing among the boat-haters, they can use the threat of the suspension of the beef trade to destroy his authority in the Liberal Party and with his National Party allies. 

So Abbott had better watch his back. As the experience of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government demonstrated, prime ministers are nowadays dispensable. He was only elected as leader because he could command a small section of the electorate crucial to his party’s victory at the ballot box. 

A few weeks on and he’s a disastrous liability. In a system like the United States’, where the supreme head honcho is like a short-term elected monarch, the only way out of this particular dilemma is assassination. But things are simpler here. All it takes is a party room vote. more