Vic wrote on Jan 9
th, 2016 at 3:03pm:
The more the focus remains on Abbott, the weaker Turnbull's senior leadership group will become. Either promote the man back into the ministry and give him a single focus or, let him remain on the backbench making public comments and risk more leaks and white anting.
Abbott is a fool, was the worst PM we have ever had, and was/will be a terrible choice for a representative position BUT, it is fairly obvious he will not resign or stand aside for another candidate at this year's election. So Turnbull is stuck with him and, he is dangerous to the Coalition. Time to act Turnbull - you options are limited, but the man is slowly pulling your party apart - he has too much power as a pleb, he is in the news too much, even MORE than members of your own front bench - show some leadership
Wrong. The worst PM we ever had was Rudd. No other PM has turned a successful government policy into a revenue-draining deathtrap that caused long-term psychological harm to RAN & Customs personnel. I am, of course, referring to Rudd's ego-driven decision to abolish the highly successful Pacific Solution and replace it with his "more humane" policy, which resulted in more than 50,000 people arriving on nearly 800 boats, with at least 1,100 people dead, RAN & Customs personnel traumatised by pulling dead bodies from the water almost weekly at a cost to taxpayers of more than $2 billion per year. Then there was Rudd's deadly pink batts scheme that not only killed a number of young men inside scorching roofs, it also caused more than 100 house fires and when Rudd rushed to close it down, hundreds of businesses went bankrupt overnight as they were unable to do anything with the now worthless pink batts they'd purchased to meet the demand from Rudd's policy shambles. The same happened with Rudd's solar panel policy, albeit without the deaths but still with a lot of businesses going belly-up when Rudd shut it down overnight without warning. Rudd is the only PM in our history to have implemented new policy or changed existing policy and to have had those changes directly lead to people being killed. He was not only our worst Prime Minister EVER, he was an extremely lethal Prime Minister!
Rudd was awful but Abort has set the bar so high its unlikely there will ever be a shitter PM , ever.