Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has repeated a call for a plebiscite on the carbon tax despite the move being sunk last month as a stunt.
I am not too sure who he is trying to impress, or how he is going to change the vote in parliament, but this is baffling stuff. His call is not rational, considering the numbers in both houses of Federal parliament are stacked against him. It is even more irrational when he said he was not bound by the result if it goes against him.
He has also slammed the majority of economists in Australia for agreeing with Labor that a price on carbon is the way to go. Saul Eslake a director and economist of the Grattan Institute, said that Mr. Abbott was attacking economists because he was frustrated. I would have thought more likely irrational. He has not got over the defeat on the floor of parliament that gave Julia Gillard the government. I say, get over it Tony, become a real leader with real policies and then maybe rational people may start to think a bit differently of you.
Gillard's carbon plan wins growing business support according to the Australian
Yes, you heard it right. This is from the Murdoch press, the biggest Labor government bashing newspaper there is.
No economist it seems is backing Abbotts "Direct action" on carbon abatement. He will be paying the big polluters with tax payers money to the tune of at least 1 billion dollars a year. The economists feel that this will do nothing to reduce carbon by 5% by 2020.
Tony Abbott seems to becoming more irrational as this Gillard government goes on.
He feels that climate change is all crap. This is against the overwhelming majority of climate scientists saying that climate change is real, it will affect this planet adversely, and it is due to human induced pollution.
So every serious climate scientist on the planet and economists in Australia is wrong and only Tony Abbott is right.
His words and actions are ones of an irrational person. I think a change in leader is what the Liberals need. I think going back to Malcolm Turnbull is the way to go for the Liberals. Malcolm is a much more lucid and rational person. I would hate to see Abbott as our Prime Minister.
I don't think that Abbott's behaviour is irrational. My reading of his behaviour is that he wants to make the Government seem under siege by bringing on as many disruptive stunts (votes of no confidence, as an example). This latest stunt keeps the support dogs barking against the Carbon Tax.
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ReplyDeleteYes he is pulling all sorts of stunts to try and destabilise the government.
But he is also irrational with what I have said. Also he invited Peter Reith to run for President of the Liberals then publicly votes against him.
I standby my call of irrational.
But he likely has public numbers on his side, on this one issue. Having watched Q&A the other night, I think Gillard could recover a little ground though.
ReplyDeleteOne comment that did slip through last week was when Gillard admitted treasury had correctly predicted the (non)impact of the GST. Back then, it was the ALP doing the scaremongering in precisely the same way the Libs are now.
Birds of a feather, tarred with the same brush and all that.
G'day Andy.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you back.
Yes both parties can be tarred with the same brush and would do the same. But I find it extremely tiresome this negativity and frankly, I feel Abbott has not got over the defeat.
Your blog has disappeared, any reason?
The idea that CO2 causes global warming is widely discredited by the very climate scientists (including the lead authors of the UN's IPCC report of 2005) that politicians name as endorsing the theory (hoax): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpWa7VW-OME
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKOSiYWwcio&feature=related
Had enough basically. Glad others are still blogging though so I can at least comment on things occasionally :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a shame Andy. I really enjoyed your blogs.
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