The Tories have copped another bollocking

What would Tony do?

Setting the Tone for the demise of the Libs

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Tony Abbott once hyperbolically described his stint in the big, green PM chair as the "Abbott era", as if his mercifully brief two years formed a dynasty or a significant layer in the political strata. A more fitting description is '2IC in the Credlin-Abbott bozozoic interregnum'. But Abbott is still admired in the RWNJ ecosystem because he is steeped in RWNJ orthodoxy - wealth as virtue, climate denial, culture wars, sexism and racism.

Abbott's fall at the 2019 election was put down to a failure on the part of the electorate to appreciate the virtues of a paternalistic troglodyte. Tories are not given to introspection hence their existential crisis caught them by surprise when Labor, the Greens and progressive independents routed the bastards in 2022. When once blue-ribbon Lib seats abandoned them and turned to more progressive independents these mugs argued it was because the Tories were insufficiently rabid. Such is the logic of the swivel-eyed loonies from the right. Now they want Tones back.

The best thing to ever happen to Abbott was Scott Morrison - 'worst ever PM' became a contestable title that gives Abbott a bit of wriggle room. As a once reliable, now disillusioned Tory base fled for the exits this is the man the Liberal Party proposes as its federal president. The organizational wing, headed by the President, is responsible for pre-selecting candidates and promoting party philosophy. An Old Testament technophobe is to be their wise sage and venerable counsel. It's not certain that Abbott would lobby for a return to the teletype or the codpiece but it cannot be discounted.

"[Angus] Taylor wants Abbott in the job...so that he can inject energy and ideas into the party."

SMH 8 May 2026

Angus Taylor's Tony Abbott tribute band, Rhodes To Nowhere, seems destined to hasten the Liberal Party’s slide to minor-party status by embracing the feral friar's carping negativity and his drive to the fringe by squabbling with One Nation over ownership of the grievance/oi oi oi/bigot/cooker vote.

“I’m confident that the leadership team of Angus Taylor and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has the conviction and courage to make a real contest of the next election.”

Tony Abbott. 11 May, 2025

“In any capacity at all [I] will be striving to make Angus Taylor Australia’s 32nd prime minister.” Kiss O'Death Abbott

The humiliating massacre of the Libs and Nats at the Farrer by-election has clearly demonstrated the efficacy of that strategy. Did that finally teach them a lesson? You be the judge:

Deputy douche Jane Hume explained that the Liberals lost Farrer because the voters were “angry at Albo” despite the fact Labor did not contest the seat. She also refused to rule out a One Nation alliance.

Matt Sooty Canavan’s “We are back!” with the Nationals’ fourth placing at <10% of the vote.

Murdoch muck spreader and Tory stooge Andrew Bolt who claims the defenestration of the Tories was a humiliation for "the Left".

The plummy-vowelled sago pudding in a suit that is Lord Alexander Downer argued the Liberal Party ought to learn lessons from One Nation’s stance on immigration and race. Speaking of Curly Downunder:

“Was a more conceited piece of fairy floss ever put on a stick?”

Paul Keating on Alexander Downer.

This is the Tory meritocracy at work. "Very much opposed to quotas”...they are “contrary to the merit and what should be at the heart of our Liberal conservative philosophy”. Two failed, past their use by dates, old, white guys battling it out over ownership of the Liberal Party's demise (the average Australian is a 37yr old woman, the average Liberal is a 70yr old man).

The Liberals have behaved like a protest party. They are becoming as relevant as a TV test pattern

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Cathy Wilcox. The SMH

Golding. The SMH

A decade of dog-whistles and a decade of lost voters. The Coalition’s natural voter just became Australia’s largest diaspora. It doesn’t vote for them. Kos Samaras, The New Daily. 7 May, 2026