Abbott's first post spill interview - it was everyone else's fault!

The man has learned nothing from his ousting. Still delusional of his self importance and talent, he blames the media, the senate, Labor, and the Lieberals themselves for his downfall. Incapable of seeing his own failures, in his mind his was a good gov that got a raw deal by all. 

He even defends the 2014 disaster of a budget, and says Turnbull has now a good foundation laid for the election. Tellingly, he uses the fact that no policy has changed under Turnbull, to back up this claim.   

“I never thought, having watched the Labor party implode, that the Coalition would want to venture down the same path,” he said. 

He also suggested that nothing, apart from the Liberal party leadership, had changed. “In a policy sense, there is very little departure,” he said. 

“Border protection policy the same, national security policy the same, economic policy the same, even same-sex marriage policy the same, and climate change policy the same. In fact, the rhetoric is the same.” 

Abbott credited himself and his two years in power with giving Turnbull and the new treasurer, Scott Morrison, “a very strong foundation” from which the Coalition could seek re-election, which he said would be in the nation’s interests. 

Abbott said he would not make a decision about his future before Christmas, but believed he was far too young to stop working. 

As well as repeating his criticism of the press, Abbott also blamed the Senate and the opposition for his downfall. more