Lentern
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The clueless leader also is prone to tell porkies on fairly big matters. I recall him saying that he would not nominate for the coalition leadership if Hockey did too. Presumably the change of mind coincided with his discovering he had enough numbers to win (or close to it, I doubt he knew he would win by one vote). He also made statements before becoming leader to the effect of the coalition should and would pass an ETS. He offered to cooperate in good faith to see the reintroduction of offshore processing at Nauru right up until the point the government tried to accept his offer then he backpedaled and said only if it came with TPV's. His claims that the coalition would have kept the budget in surplus during the GFC, despite the revenue collapse which would have put John Howard's projected expenditure into deficit.That wasn't my implication at all (although I could easily see how you assumed so). It's really quite depressing that both the major parties are doing a pretty terrible job at the moment. On one hand you've got an absolutely hopeless liar and a clueless leader without any firm underlying principles. On the other you've got a bloke who's only chance at winning the election is by keeping his mouth shut.
Australian federal politics.
I wonder what peoples preference of Prime Ministers are on this place, mine would be
Bishop
Turnbull
Rudd
Hockey
Smith
Shorten
Gillard
Abbott
Crean
Swan
Yes that means if Crean was made leader I would vote for Tony Abbott at the next election. Labor need to purge this idiocy from their ranks.