Comments on: The great Leader of the Opposition yawnfest

By: tigtog

tigtog — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:29:07 +0000

I definitely got a shiver there, L. I doubt that they will actually split though, the rightwingers know that they’ve got too much to lose.

Looks like any vote won’t happen until Tuesday now. There’s still quite a bit of double-dealing and back-stabbing that can happen over the next few days, so who knows where the main players will be by then? Hockey seems to be trying very hard to not be handed the poison chalice – he wants someone else to lose the next election so he can then have his time in the sun seems to be the consensus.

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:53:48 +0000

A split might be all fun and games until they get the balance of power. Brrrr, is it cold in here?

By: Jo Tamar

Jo Tamar — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:10:06 +0000

One wonders whether Nelson and/or Costello are wishing they’d stuck around for this! (Probably not Nelson. Costello, maybe.)

By: tigtog

tigtog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:03:44 +0000

I was so happy when I saw the news that Abbot had resigned. But does that not necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of him?

He hasn’t resigned from Parliament, he’s only resigned from the Shadow Cabinet i.e. gone to the back bench.

All it takes to return to the front bench is a leader who wants him there, and he’s obviously hoping that he can win the votes to be that leader himself.

By: Hedgepig

Hedgepig — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:57:01 +0000

It would be nice if the liberal party were divested of the worst of the godbags. “Liberal” doesn’t actually mean “socially conservative” and “god bothering” but the party has really become that in the last couple of decades. It would be much better if the worst of ‘em were quarantined in their only little extremist party. And that would split the Liberal vote too, heh heh.

I was so happy when I saw the news that Abbot had resigned. But does that not necessarily mean we’ve seen the last of him?

By: Su

Su — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:29:44 +0000

Abbot’s going to challenge then. Favourite outcome: Minchin, Abbot and Abetz split off and form some gawdawful ultraconservative party, leaving the liberals to rebuild Liberal party. Likelihood of that outcome: probably minuscule. Really bad for democracy to have no effective opposition though so I really don’t want the Liberals to get any more pathetic than they already are.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:31:55 +0000

Ha from @clembastow on twitpic: Come to the Dark Side, Talc - you know you want to!

By: tigtog

tigtog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:01:03 +0000

Turnbull about to give a press conference - ABC is streaming it live

By: tigtog

tigtog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:42 +0000

Ha – just saw on the Twitter #spill hashtag this thought: how many journalists are actually going to turn up for the Walkley Awards ceremony tonight with all this going on?

By: tigtog

tigtog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:42:35 +0000

I really didn’t think they’d go for another tilt at the spill before this session of Parliament closes. I thought they’d regroup to analyse yesterday’s vote. Abbott, Mirabella, Abetz and Tony Smith all resigned now, and the liberal whips have asked the parliamentarians to not leave the House. It’s On.