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]

---

@pct001wine wrote:

---

@silverfaun wrote:

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.

---

They seem to be exactly the same height in this clip. 

NB.  Abbott had to read Pete's speech, Shorten spoke without notes.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-29/tony-abbott-makes-first-visit-to-afghanistan-as-prime-minister...

[azureline**]

Mr Abbott needs notes so he can say carefully scripted things that are the Gospel truth.

[cq_tech]

The Gospel according to whom?

[***super_nova***]

---

@azureline** wrote:

Mr Abbott needs notes so he can say carefully scripted things that are the Gospel truth.

---

When he does not read it he is likely to put his foot in it big time; just as he did the other day.  No class, no style, crass bogan who knows nothing about diplomacy.  No wonder the LNP worshippers are running scared.

[the_great_she_elephant]

 PM Builds on landslide as Shorten remains faceless.

And we all know what happens if you try to build on a landslide, don't we? You end up at the bottom of a cliff with your house buried in mud,

[azureline**]

---

@cq_tech wrote:
The Gospel according to whom?

---

The Gospel according to Anthony Abbott

[freakiness]

I could have sworn I saw him next to Abbott in Afghanistan. 

[lakeland27]

this slogan is a looking a bit worn faun.  its about time piers and andrew put their heads together and provided you rusties with some new material. this dross is not going to work anymore.

[azureline**]

Shorten was laying a wreath there with Abbott...........

As a way of underlining the bipartisan political support throughout the Afghanistan war, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was also invited to the ceremony to address the troops.

[spotweldersfriend]

Isn't Tiny Abbott substantially shorter than his 2 daughters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFmv22ghzQw&feature=youtube_gdata_player