Ex PM Howard praises the budget to mining sector

Ex PM Howard, who bought in WorkChoices when he had the majority in both the lower house and the senate, has praised Abbott's budget. Using words that he dared not use when in office, he asserts the present budget furor is temporary and public attitudes to it will "stabalise".

Earth to Howard: you are only the second PM in our history to lose his own seat in parliament, both of those events were to do with industrial relations. That's how out of touch with his own electorate he was, let alone the broad Australian public. Surely Howard you are the last person that should offer advice to the present Lieberal party. 

At his second address in the past fortnight to a business audience in Perth, Mr Howard reiterated that the Liberals had handed down a budget that was "absolutely right for the times" but the party was going through a period of "backlash and unpopularity". 

"I believe that will change," he told a mining sector conference. "Give them time. Public attitudes will stabilise as time goes by. 

"But I don't think everything will get through the Senate." 

His comments came after Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the same kind of audience that some of the budget changes were very difficult and hard for people to get their minds around. 

Mr Howard would not be drawn by reporters on the measures he believed would be blocked. 

"I think they should pass the whole budget," he said. 

"The situation with the budget in Australia is very similar to the first budget of the chancellor of the exchequer in Britain introduced a few years ago. 

Everybody dumped on that and now the British economy is performing better than any other European economy. more

I got news for you Howard. Yes the public attitude will stabalise over time, but it won't be positive. This will go down as the worst budget ever, and an attempt by the corporations to hijack our democracy. This is a wake up point for Australia, showing exactly what will happen if we sacrifice our sovereignty to corporate rule. 

And WTF is this about England performing better than other European economies? So what? That means nothing. I mean Europe is pretty fucked up at the moment, not exactly economically shit hot. Easy to be better than. More Lieberal bullshit.

So how is England doing as compared to Australia now? Hmmmmmm? Following England down the toilet doesn't sound like a good economic plan to me.