Thursday, August 7, 2014

ABBOTT FACING LEADERSHIP MELTDOWN DEADLINE


Cool PM

By  our  hotshot  special  political  scribe.


CANBERRA  : There is a  growing belief  in  government and  business circles that  Prime Minister  Abbott  will  be  lucky  to   survive  until   the  Boxing Day sales  . The  feeling  is that  he has   until Christmas  to   improve  his   and   the  Coalition’s  poor standing   in  the  polls  or else he  will  get the bullet  or be  tapped  on   the  shoulder  and  asked  to  pedal off  into the sunrise  and  melt away.  In   the  capital’s  Coalition  Funk  Bunker  , the  gloomy  polls  and the two  batterings  in  the Queensland by-elections  have   got  the  true  blue  brigade  rattled.

 Clearly , the  electorate does not  like  the PM,his government's  extreme  policies ; the   unimpressive  front   bench  seems  less  beneficial  than  a   dose of  Epsom salts .  Apart  from  the polls  and  conventional media reports , the social media  and talk back  radio   are   alive with a  tidal wave of  criticism  against  the  PM  and  his  accident  prone team .

The  recent  inept  handling of  the proposed  Big Brother metadata  legislation  looked  like a  slapstick performance by Tweedledee and Tweedledum.  It  took the  one Liberal with a   bit  of  public  cred, Malcolm  Turnbull , to   try and  explain   what  the  PM  and  the Attorney –General   said   spooks   want   to    find   in  envelopes ,  brown  paper  bags  and   paintings  containing  secret , coded  messages .

The government  is twitchy  over the number of  angry electronic  petitions it is receiving, the shower of   extreme  emails doing  the  rounds , i.e.,  one showing  a  nice old  lady toting a gun, see  below , headed GRANNIE  GET  YOUR  GUN , suggesting  she  shoot a  politician  to improve  her  lifestyle being looked after  in prison  with regular medical  attention and  meals . Very extreme stuff.
 However, when a  correspondent  went for a haircut  recently  and  the  subject of  the  Abbott  Government raised its head  ,  the  tonsorial artist  said   our   current  leader could be  the first  one assassinated !!!!  In  New York,  a   placard carried  in  an Occupy Wall Street  demo  carried the  warning  that  governments  should  worry   when   librarians  march in anger . Equally ,  the  Abbott regime  should  tremble   when   barbers  feel  snipped  off.