RSVP - Tony's Party

Are you going? Have you been invited, I have.....you know to Tony's Party in August.

It's strange how personal prejudices influence all manner of things and so I should not be at all surprised to find myself completely disenchanted by the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott. I mean was it the oft shown footage of him sporting the famous, I mean infamous, "budgie smugglers" or swimming trunks, as they were called in my Dad's day or perhaps one of the in depth looks at his previous life that has ensured I will vote for the present incumbent, Julia Gillard.

Actually, I am not quite that naive and it is Tony's policies or at least a number of his statements that have made me firm in my resolve.

For starters he is a, "Climate Change", skeptic. Yes, one of those. Someone who, with all the evidence at his finger tips, still refuses to accept that all the gunk we human beings have poured into the atmosphere over the past 200 years has not had any significant impact on our environment.

Then there is his great response to the Mining Tax imposed by Julia's government on the big mining companies here in Aus. The tax that is going to get Australia back into surplus.....Tony just would not implement it. No, he would let the Miners continue to send their billions offshore, never mind the people who live in the country that makes them so wealthy.

Finally what settled it are the ridiculous ads., the Liberal campaign is running, in which they rubbish the, 'Building Schools" program and the, "free insulation" initiative, both of which admittedly have experienced problems, but which without a doubt stopped Australia slipping into the economic quagmire, that countries such as the US and UK landed in.

No, I will not be going to Tony's party this August.