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Andrew Slack (58)
Bowen and Co must be pissing themselves laughing behind the scenes. Every budget trap they have laid has come out and is biting the Coalition in the balls.
Tony Abbott will not go down because of bad policy. He will because he is one of the WORST communicators in Australian political history and doesn't seem to know when to swallow pride and come clean.
"Look we promised all this stiff but because of the situation and the reality in the numbers, and what spending like this will do to the country going forward we are going to break a few promises and we are really sorry and you have reason to be angry. We have to raise more revenue and cut costs. Sorry"
Surely that sort of line would have worked a LOT better than this "we are keeping faith with the Australian people" bullshit. Moreover they think everyone is stupid and doesn't realise that they are in fact doing preciously little to fuck all about cutting back costs. Seem to think we are stupid enough to think that added taxes equal cost cutting. All big talk about "cutting fat out of the system" and "smaller government" and they do almost nothing about that.
If people didn't hate Abbott by now, boy, has he given them reasons to because of what looks like simple, blatant dishonesty.
Unbelievable to watch. Quite incredible actually. And I don't even read the SMH to figure this out.
Tony Abbott will not go down because of bad policy. He will because he is one of the WORST communicators in Australian political history and doesn't seem to know when to swallow pride and come clean.
"Look we promised all this stiff but because of the situation and the reality in the numbers, and what spending like this will do to the country going forward we are going to break a few promises and we are really sorry and you have reason to be angry. We have to raise more revenue and cut costs. Sorry"
Surely that sort of line would have worked a LOT better than this "we are keeping faith with the Australian people" bullshit. Moreover they think everyone is stupid and doesn't realise that they are in fact doing preciously little to fuck all about cutting back costs. Seem to think we are stupid enough to think that added taxes equal cost cutting. All big talk about "cutting fat out of the system" and "smaller government" and they do almost nothing about that.
If people didn't hate Abbott by now, boy, has he given them reasons to because of what looks like simple, blatant dishonesty.
Unbelievable to watch. Quite incredible actually. And I don't even read the SMH to figure this out.