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...

[silverfaun]

Rubbish, just another Abbott bashing post to cover your own mistakes. Please try truth in posting, it makes for a much friendlier place.

[freakiness]

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@silverfaun wrote:
Rubbish, just another Abbott bashing post to cover your own mistakes. Please try truth in posting, it makes for a much friendlier place.

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That is a quote of what he said not some reporters rewriting of what he said.

I did post the truth. 

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

 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,

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Are we there yet?

[***super_nova***]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

If Abbott is 1.8 metres tall who ever measured him needs to buy a new tape measure. He's about 1.6metres, because i'm a bit shorter than him.

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160cm???  I'm about 159cm, there is no way he is as short as me

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If Shorten is short then Abbott is shorter

[lakeland27]

he has a face. they all have faces. the morphing of 'someone who you don't hear much about' into 'faceless' is something only a conservative spin doctor would think makes any sense. good fodder for the newsltd rusties though, impressionable lot that they are .

[**meep**]

Actually, T Abbott appears to be just a little taller

[lakeland27]

look at his leg, he's halfway up the first step. neither is as tall as garrett though,  he won that comp

[**meep**]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

look at his leg, he's halfway up the first step. neither is as tall as garrett though,  he won that comp

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no leg on step and appearing even taller.

[spotweldersfriend]

That Garrett stood in front of us at the Capitol theatre during the Ian Dury concert. We couldn't see the band:-)

[lakeland27]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

look at his leg, he's halfway up the first step. neither is as tall as garrett though,  he won that comp

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no leg on step and appearing even taller.

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no. bill is bowing just a tad more than tone (does anyone actally care bout this ?)