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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.
