PM Builds on landslide as Shorten remains faceless.

[silverfaun]

Will Bill Shorten ever shake off the "faceless man" epithet that has dogged him all his political life? Will he be able to garner affection so important to a politician?

What is his X Factor? what can he do the emerge from the isolation he has put himself in since gaining the leadership of the OPP party. Nobody's seen him, where is he? what's his excuse for not putting himself out there for the public to see just what kind of a man he is & what values he can impart to the people who did not vote for him but are hugely important to him if he wants to be a viable Opp Leader.

Waiting until Parliament resumes must be a daunting thought for him as he doesn't have the chutzpah & likeable personna of Albanese. Albanese who is no longer leader of Opp business, what's that all about? getting rid of one of the most successful operators Labor had & putting a woman in as deputy regardless that she nearly lost her seat because of her constant verballing of doomsday events Tony Abbott would visit on us if he got in.

Prime Minister Abbott won't take long to get his measure, after all, he got Gillard's & Rudd's, they had no defence against him other than a disgraceful gender war that was so desperate it may have cheered the sisterhood but never came near lifting her popularity and people had gone off Rudd redux.

Then we were subjected to poor Rudd, a damaged man, manic & autocratic that was so transparent voters repudiated him in droves. Rudd, the man Shorten removed from the Prime Ministership & then expecting voters to trust him after he destroyed Gillard's Prime Ministership. This is a man with no moral fibre, another man whom his own colleagues don't like & call him names & deride him behind his back.

Are we going to be treated to an Opposition that is dysfunctional & chaotic like they were in government? time will tell, they haven't looked at any of the reasons they failed as yet, they haven't faced up to the reasons they failed as far as we can see. If they don't have an in depth review of themselves they are doomed to keep making the decisions that has seen them reduced to little more than a rump.

TONY Abbott, once mocked by Labor as "unelectable", is now preferred as prime minister by nearly half of voters.

Bill Shorten, dubbed a "faceless man" after the political knifing of Kevin Rudd in 2010, remains just that: a faceless man.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/pm-gaining-as-shorten-remains-faceless/stor...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tony-abbott-builds-on-election-landslide-newspoll/s...

[polksaladallie]

Whichever way you want to look at the result of the recent Federal election, one argument that doesn’t stack up is that this is some kind of landslide for the Coalition. That’s how the election is being rewritten — but the figures don’t support the story.

Fifteen of the Coalition’s new seats are held on very thin margins. Eleven seats have margins of less than 4000 voters, according to AEC figures as at 24 September:

http://larvatusprodeo.net/archives/2013/09/not-the-shipping-news-there-was-no-landslide/

[lakeland27]

all of these posts spell one thing . fear of shorten.

[spotweldersfriend]

Speaking of faceless,I haven't seen much of the Deputy PM post election.Has she taken a tax payer funded trip OS to audition for a part in a George A Romero movie?

[donnashuggy]

I think she is trying to have a baby spot. She doesn't want tongues wagging.

[lakeland27]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

I think she is trying to have a baby spot. She doesn't want tongues wagging.

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 what ? modern medicine is amazing

[silverfaun]

OH my... fear of Shorten????????????  Here we go again, the messiah complex by labor, elevating a no moral fibre, ex union lackey a churlish little man deprived of his mission in life to become PM of our country to the messiah position. The man that will "save" Labor from the years of wilderness they are facing.

This little man is no threat to Conservatives, no threat to PM Abbott, the only threat this little bitter lemon is to his own party who will follow him down the road to ignominy.

Best laugh I've had so far this morning.  The little book of hate will be pored over now, feverish reference to their "enemies list" to rebut any criticism when all else fails

[lakeland27]

you are , theres no other good reason for all this posting. scared to death of one term tone being pushed aside ,. with good reason i'd add. 

[pct001wine]

Maybe little Bill needs to strap on a helmet and some lycra, maybe even don the budgie-smugglers and dud the taxpayers of some "entitlements", then he won't be so "faceless".

Of course, he isn't as tall as Tony Abbott (subject to verification), which seems to carry some significance with the OP.

[azureline**]

I think there must be some kind of revelation coming?

Was everyone on holiday?