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John What I think Abbott is trying to do is to heal the rift between the conservatives and the right wing radicals. The problem for neo-liberals has always been how to bring the conservative majority along with them. Crap about law and order and anti-gay propaganda usually suffice. What Abbott is doing is to play the royal card. Recall the Menzies speech in 1963 at Parliament House in front of the visiting Royalty and his incredible grovel of the quote from the Elizabethan poet Thomas Ford -"I did but see her [The Queen] passing by and yet I love her till I die"? Abbott's gesture of knighting the Duke is the royal grovel again. But it is farcical because conservative Australia has moved on, not by much, but beyond the Royal grovel. comradely Gary On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:16 PM, John Passant via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > I think Abbott knows that politically he is a dead man walking and has > decided to release his inner reactionary. That may well explain the enquiry > into workplace relations (code for bringing back the highly unpopular vote > losing Work Choices) which at least most of the ruling class want. But > knighthhoods, and one for Philistine Phil? Seriously? No sensible member of > the Australian ruling class sees that as in any way desirable or defensible > and it destroys the 'we are all in this Budget fixing together' lie they > are trying to promulgate. This latest blunder, one of such magnitude, shows > how isolated from and toxic to the public Abbott is and may see him soon > rolled. How much longer can the Liberals hang on to and with this buffoon? > How much longer will the ruling class put up with their idiot? Not much > longer I suspect. > > http://enpassant.com.au/2015/01/26/tony-abbott-and-prince- > philip-beknighted-and-benighted/ > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary. > maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
