It is certain Abbott will not survive, politically, his Brisbane weekend among the world’s leaders. It is not certain when he will be overthrown. But there is no other probability, any more. His whinge about his domestic troubles in his opening statement; his attempt, for months, to keep climate change off the agenda; his physical threat to Putin and his demand, in Beijing, that Putin give him blood money; his genial handshake with the Evil One, at last, in Brisbane; his weird joke that he was on a “unity ticket” with him; and his rallying cry on behalf of coal: these mistakes ‒ plus Hockey’s bizarre assertion that climate change and the economy were “not connected” ‒ have made him seem an innumerate and a diplomatic disaster, like Borat or Billy McMahon, and an embarrassment for us, his people. Nothing much will happen to him before November 29.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:24:36 +0000
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