There is only one thing Bill Shorten need concentrate on
during his budget reply speech.
He needs to hammer home that Abbott won the election by
fraud. He comprehensively lied to get elected. This was no ‘broken commitment’
because of changed circumstances. His statements weren’t vague, they weren’t
qualified. He intentionally deceived people in order to win power.
That should not be tolerated, let alone rewarded.
In many ways the merits or otherwise of the actual budget
measures are irrelevant, because they are not what the electorate signed up
for.
I, like many, find some of the announced measures grossly
unfair, badly targeted and unnecessary. However if the majority decide that’s
the sort of Australia they want, then that is their democratic right. But this
is not what the majority decided. They weren’t told of the Government’s intentions.
Rather they were assured of the exact opposite.
Abbott has fundamentally broken his contract with
Australians. Not a minor breach mind you, rather he has trashed every substantive
clause. It goes well beyond any previous Government’s supposed misdemeanours,
even the famous ‘core and non-core’ promises of John Howard.
It is fraud, pure and simple.
Abbott is saying their first budget is ‘fundamentally honest’.
No it’s not. What does that mean anyway? That it’s honest at the core but
dishonest around the edges? It’s all spin and more lies. Abbott is a pathological
liar and most of his front bench are following in his footsteps.
If politicians can lie at this monumental level with
impunity and get away with it there is no hope for our democracy.
So Mr Shorten, don’t waffle around about the hurt to the
battlers, the working mums & dads, the sick, the old and the unemployed. Ignore
the hypocrisy of tax breaks for polluters & miners while increasing taxes
for the masses. Forget about the gutting of our health system and the largess
of the paid parental scheme.
Those discussions can be had in the ensuing weeks and
months.
For now, concentrate on the lies and the fraud. Tell people
that Tony Abbott and his LNP have comprehensively and intentionally deceived Australians
and that they should not be prepared to accept it.
Watch Tony Abbott lying (with thanks to @PhonyTonyAbbott)
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Watch Tony Abbott lying (with thanks to @PhonyTonyAbbott)
