DEMISE OF TONY ABBOTT No.86

HE'S BAAAACK!

SirThomasWynne:

* TONY ABBOTT *

TONY IS HOME, HURRAH!

#wostPMever

LycraJedi: @SirThomasWynne that bloody blue tie

ShaughanA: @SirThomasWynne Margie: Tony, Wash n iron em yaself, Im a liberated woman now, you sexist misogynist Lier! Julia was right! Tony Pack ya gear, I'm taking the house, BMW, 2/3rds of money, Oh and my lesbian lover moved in last week!! :-)

IntuitiveGal1: @SirThomasWynne LOL, showing his self-absorbed, misogynist side, huh. Very funny

randlight: @SirThomasWynne that would be right

pepiermargot: @SirThomasWynne: can't Peta cook?

shamaroo: @pepiermargot @SirThomasWynne Is he home? I guess he'll be in the #bluemountains on 17th to meet William & Kate...

pepiermargot: @shamaroo: @SirThomasWynne & another try 2 flog off daughters

shamaroo: @pepiermargot @SirThomasWynne too late. Royalty isn't Catholic, so no go there.

Robtrinity: @SirThomasWynne Wonder if Piney will frock up as a geisha, to keep the after-glow going a bit longer?

johnmary1012: @SirThomasWynne  Hoped he washed away Petas odour before going home.

mm_ssssshh: @SirThomasWynne Doesn't Kirribilli house have people to do that for him?

cheryl_suzette: @SirThomasWynne Eeny Meeny Miney Moe, Which house do I go to? I do not know????

ShaughanA: @SirThomasWynne Wonder how many times he's slapped Margie?

LET'S GET FISCAL

SirThomasWynne:

* TONY ABBOTT *

MAYBE SLOW-JOE GOT ONE THING RIGHT!

#wostTREASURERever

Gary150iq: @SirThomasWynne Slow Joe!!!-Perfect!!!

randlight: @SirThomasWynne First time?

Eschertology: @SirThomasWynne ♯♫♪ Let's get fiscal, fiscal, let me hear your money talk, your money talk

IntuitiveGal1: @SirThomasWynne HA HA HA HA! Another priceless one!

Robtrinity: @SirThomasWynne True...And imagination counts for only so much! #auspol #budgiefail

GoTheGrey: @SirThomasWynne When you have a fetish for lycra nothing is left to the imagination.

JaneReid5: @SirThomasWynne Unlikely that Joe will get anything else right, budget shaping up to be worst ever, stripping from poor to give to wealthy.

from Warringah

bamboozled3: @SirThomasWynne @cheryl_cant help himself-exaggerating once again!

ShaughanA: @SirThomasWynne LNP fiscal tools are all that big! :-)

prlloyd63: @SirThomasWynne @randlight Looking forward to buying Joe a beer when he retires at 70 in 2035. An example of #doasisaybutnotasido

randlight: @prlloyd63 @SirThomasWynne Unless his bosses ie the people of North Sydney chuck him out before

mavisgrizzltits: @SirThomasWynne @leftocentre Whose Lieberal "manhood" is Ho Jockey describing in this photo too bog for Abbott

sagunasws: @SirThomasWynne @JaneReid5 A typical Tea Party budget, reduce Govt, reduce taxes & take money from the poor.

cheryl_suzette: @SirThomasWynne speaking from experience:)

BLUE TIES

SirThomasWynne:

* TONY ABBOTT *

...AND HIS BLOODY BLUE TIES

(EVERYBODY ASSOCIATED BLUE TIES WITH LIES)

#wostPMever

angharad1963: @SirThomasWynne i am seriously gonna puke.

spencerlot: @SirThomasWynne Doesn't matter what colour tie he wears - I will never like him :)

IntuitiveGal1: @SirThomasWynne HA HA HA I sang it in my head, although quite poorly. I'm glad you're having fun, Tom, and sharing with everybody. x

JonJohnson_1: @SirThomasWynne Blue stands for trust, honour, integrity - Don't kid yourself, Tone all that you are NOT! Scumbag.

bamboozled3: @SirThomasWynne Nah its the comb over that distresses me!

cheryl_suzette: @SirThomasWynne All Australians now associate Blue Ties With Lies :)

Dame_Spactakell: @cheryl_suzette @SirThomasWynne This Tweet must be RTd again and again and again.... Australians associate blue ties with lies...

writtenword09: @SirThomasWynne typical colour, either blue or red.

calsaff: @SirThomasWynne Well Sir Tom there seems to be synchronicity. The worse he gets the better you are.

hdrebner: @SirThomasWynne @Cptjohnno @cheryl_suzette And I say to myself 'what a wonderful... & then rush for my medication.;)

dazza50: @SirThomasWynne @gerriDarcey make that boring blue ties

GoTheGrey: @SirThomasWynne Now tie getting that song out of your head (see what I did there?)...

justbadgrandpa: @SirThomasWynne funny lookin turd with a blue tie

ordinarybloke: @SirThomasWynne Yep.. the "Blue Tie Lie".

roguengine: @SirThomasWynne Looking forward to the rope tie!

ShaughanA: @SirThomasWynne Now he wears Grey ties, day after day!

ADDITIONALS

gobbledeegook: @SirThomasWynne no tip jars for this mob #auspol

obbledeegook: @SirThomasWynne ristorante for the wealthy #auspol #worldsworsttreasurer

SirThomasWynne: 

* TONY ABBOTT *

Tony is not an art critic he's just likes what he likes...

#wostPMever

davidbewart: @SirThomasWynne a ladeee

IouisaLouisa: @davidbewart @SirThomasWynne And that's the Minister for women's affairs!!

Simon_Ulfarsson: @davidbewart @SirThomasWynne is *facepalm* to 2010's?

limchit85: @davidbewart @SirThomasWynne And the intellect radiates from that picture.

ronh62: @SirThomasWynne Very appropriate for the minister for women #AbbottNoIdea

SirThomasWynne: Kerry Packer's former family lawyer Malcolm Turnbull is sending the NBN to its death bed - http://delimiter.com.au/2014/04/10/dont-know-cover-nbn-anymore/


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deanhepburn: "@nadiarao: The more you try to silence the people the more they will speak out against you. #auspol " #myliberal

the_LoungeFly: What Energy Australia don't tell you is that energy industry is subsidised more than $1 billion federally.. #auspol

Feeney4Batman: Tony Abbott is really starting to get the hang of this spin doctor stuff!

RomanSandle: Have a look at what Howard flogged off 

nanoview: How Disgusting, after the Shit we've had to endure Building this Country, Abbott's Mob destroyed it in 6 Month and Hockey calls us Parasites

walabytrack: piC

Feeney4Batman: The 85 wealthiest people on Earth own the same wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest people

Tony Abbott slumps in polls despite best week yet

by
Mark Kenny April 13, 2014

EXCLUSIVE

A record high vote of support for the Greens and a slump in support for the Coalition in regional Australia has left Tony Abbott's seven-month old government trailing Labor by four points after preferences, for the second time since being elected.

The Coalition now trails Labor by 4 percentage points on a two-party-preferred basis on 48 to 52 per cent, with the Greens primary vote rising sharply to a highest-ever share of 17 per cent.

That is almost double the Greens' support achieved at the September election where it remained in singles figures.

The degree of voter disenchantment suggests the government has again squandered the goodwill which had ebbed in the lead-up to Christmas, but was thought, now, to have been recovered.

The April Fairfax Nielsen poll shows the government has paid for a month in which its central economic policies such as repealing the carbon and mining taxes and crafting a fiscally responsible budget were allowed to be swamped by self-inflicted political controversies.

Only a third of Australians back the return of British titles – albeit within the Australian award system – and nine out of 10 Australians believe it should continue to be unlawful to "offend, insult or humiliate" based on race or ethnicity.

Tellingly for the government, which has pursued the removal of legal sanctions against offending, insulting or humiliating, within the Racial Discrimination Act, six out of 10 disagree with Attorney-General George Brandis' statement that "people do have a right to be bigots".

Both issues blew up in the government's face in recent weeks, right when it was trying to make a strong public case against Labor obstructionism over the mining and carbon tax repeal bills.

Coalition MPs were non-plussed by Mr Abbott's sudden restoration of the British titles particularly because it came when the message was meant to focus on economic clarity.

There is also ongoing concern that the push to dilute the Racial Discrimination Act has been driven by a tiny but powerful clique, and that with no public clamour for the move, the government risks being seen to be pandering to special interests.

The poll reveals voters expressly do not support any change, and indeed view dimly any suggestion that it should be easier to promulgate hate speech.

In Western Australia, where the Greens succeeded less than a fortnight ago in having their sitting senator re-elected following a well-fought campaign, the party's vote has reached an unprecedented 27 per cent – more than double the 12 per cent recorded at last year's election.

Labor's dominance on the two-party-preferred basis is being driven by the Greens' support and by a noticeable shift in voting intention between the cities and the non-capital city votes.

"The fall in the Coalition vote occurred mainly in regional areas," Fairfax Nielsen pollster John Stirton said.

He described the collapse in the Coalition vote outside capital cities of 8 percentage points as "statistically significant", dropping from 50 per cent to 42 per cent.

"In capital cities it fell only slightly, from 40 per cent to 39 per cent."

The nation-wide telephone poll of 1400 voters was taken between last Thursday and Saturday, which coincided with what many political observers believe was one of the government's best weeks with the Prime Minister achieving several foreign policy wins in north Asia.

Mr Abbott arrived back in Australia on Sunday morning, energised by a successful trade-dominated three-country tour to Japan, Korea and China, with free trade deals clinched in the former two and on track for a third FTA in China before the end of the year.

"It has been an important week for our country," he said in his weekly Facebook message.

"My hope is that in the years ahead Australians will see first-hand the benefits of closer, freer trade with Asia – through more jobs, more affordable goods and services and even closer bonds with our north Asian friends and neighbours."

He will be hoping that success shows up in the next poll at least.

Nationals MPs warn against ABC budget cuts

April 13, 2014

by

James Massola, Matthew Knott, Georgina Mitchell

Discord is growing in the federal Coalition over the future funding for the ABC, with Nationals MPs calling for regional services to be firewalled from any cuts in the budget.

Nationals MPs Bruce Scott and Mark Coulton have voiced their concern about possible cuts after Fairfax Media reported on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Abbott could break a key pre-election promise by cutting funding to the national broadcaster.

The government’s powerful expenditure review committee is considering how to trim millions from Auntie’s budget, including through the introduction of an annual “efficiency dividend” that would force the corporation to do more with less.

Mr Abbott said on election eve there would be no cuts to the ABC or SBS, but since then the corporation, the prime minister and hard-right of the Liberal Party have been at loggerheads over perceived bias and misreporting.

It’s understood the ERC is weighing the political feasibility of a range of cuts that would cut into the ABC’s $1.03 billion budget.

Mr Scott said the ABC provided vital services to people in his community, including emergency services information during cyclones, floods and fires, on the whereabouts of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, as well as news and entertainment.

“Forget about twitter and mobile phones, the ABC covers vast areas of Australia and if the power is down you can still listen to the ABC on your radio,’’ he said.

“If they are cut under the efficiency dividend that would be terrible, I don't see any fat out there. I find the thought of any cut to the ABC rural network unthinkable. They aren't running a political line, they are just giving us market information, funeral notices ... it's a unique service where commercial radio just isn't viable.”

Mr Coulton said the ABC could not be exempt from finding increased efficiencies – a separate efficiency review of the corporation is underway – and he was not opposed to the ABC being “looked at”.

“But I certainly would not like rural radio to be targeted because it provides a valuable service. My electorate is covered by four different regional ABC outlets and they provide a valuable service all the time, not just when there is an emergency.”

The comments come after fellow MP John Williams said regional radio was the “heart of the bush” and should be spared.

At a recent senate estimates hearing, ABC managing director Mark Scott could not guarantee any services would be spared if the broadcaster’s funding is cut.

He also said that he – and the ABC audience – would hold Mr Abbott at his word not to cut funding.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Sunday the budget measures would be become clear in due course.

“If you're asking if there are efficiencies, ask your own management at SBS or ABC, of course they would tell you that any business can be more efficient ... that is a penetrating glimpse of the obvious,’’ he said.

Shadow communications minister Jason Clare said it was “nonsense’’ for the government to argue an efficiency dividend would not equate to a broken promise on ABC funding.

“If it looks like a cut and smells like a cut it's a cut. Tony Abbott said there would be no cuts to the ABC – if they cut the ABC he was lying.”

Mr Clare said any efficiencies identified for the ABC should be reinvested in the broadcaster.

“National Party members should be speaking up right now and telling Tony Abbott not to cut the ABC budget because it would affect the people they represent.’’

Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek said a cut to the ABC would constitute a broken promise from the Abbott government.

“This government came into government promising to be one thing and they've turned out to be very different indeed. They promised not to cut healthcare, they promised not to cut pensions,’’ she said.

“They promised not to cut the ABC – introducing any cuts to the Australia network, to the efficiency dividend, whatever way they try to disguise it, this is simply a cut to the ABC.”

StanSteam2: Neilsen Poll: LNP down, and Greens benefit from the main parties' unpopularity http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/greens-benefit-from-main-parties-unpopularity-20140413-36lk3.html … #auspol

deanhepburn: If anyone gets the opportunity, ask Bolt what he meant by this... #auspol #myliberal

SirThomasWynne: 

* TONY ABBOTT * 

SOCIAL JUSTICE - JAPANESE STYLE! 

#worstPMever pic.twitter.com/4W9KJHhcKf

forthleft: @SirThomasWynne Is his face photoshopped here or is getting even uglier?

SirThomasWynne: @forthleft another snap from same shoot just as weird pic.twitter.com/4CB1M95QAf

forthleft: @SirThomasWynne He's like cheap cyborg.

SirThomasWynne: @forthleft really creepy man inside and out...I am reminded of that TV show "V" where alien lizards hid inside humans pic.twitter.com/w1pRaRmeii

DOCTORrob54: @SirThomasWynne @forthleft Mate,you are onto something here,I can't figure it out but think you are on the right track.