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Abbott blasted by his beloved England
by Paola Totaro via rochelle - Melbourne Age Thursday, Nov 20 2014, 9:23pm
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When British conservatives attack their Australian counterparts it serves to highlight the retrogressive, insular, out-of-touch mentality of the Oz prime minister who fraudulently stole office by engaging in a campaign of calculated lies, fraud and DECEIT to gain office -- a crime under local statutes.

Errand boy Tony Abbott

Abbott was blasted over his blind attitude to climate change and indirectly for his support of the coal and polluting mining lobby, particularly the Olympic Dam uranium mine, which is depleting and polluting our artesian water at frightening speed -- valuable water that the miner obtains in HUGE quantities free of charge.

Unknown to the Brits, Abbott struck a deal with plutocrats Gina Rinehart and Rupert Murdoch and we see their policies being implemented today regardless of the cost to the Reef and to the Oz ABC, a national sacred cow. Abbott wanted the top job and was willing to do anything to get it, including breaking the law and serving unrepresentative plutocrats.

The party is now in damage control but it will become clear soon enough that the only real fix is to remove Abbott from the leadership, as he is single-handedly destroying the entire party. FM Julie Bishop attempted feebly to counter Obama’s criticism of Oz on climate change but only succeeded in damaging her own reputation. Communication minister, spineless Malcolm Turnbull, who is known to support climate change was forced to reverse his stance and kow-tow to Abbott, the international pariah.

Turnbull was interviewed recently over Abbott’s (Murdoch’s) policy to dismantle the ABC and said that ‘he’ stated prior to the election that the ABC would not be exempt from visionless, conservative slashers; notwithstanding that Abbott pledged to the Oz nation, throughout the entire election campaign, that there would be “no cuts to the ABC or SBS!” Turnbull, a lawyer by profession, should be aware that he is SUBORDINATE to his leader and that the population would rightly listen to the leader rather than the squeaks of a spineless underling -- hence Turnbull is now viewed by the population as an insignificant lackey with no personal INTEGRITY whatsoever.

The message to all Libs is support lying, pariah Abbott at your own risk as he is CLEARLY in self-destruct mode. You can’t have it both ways, Abbott purports to be a religious Catholic so should know that a man cannot serve two masters, the plutocrats and the Oz population. Abbott has clearly made his choice and the Oz population is painfully aware of the sell-out, Abbott is therefore a lost cause.

Story from The Melbourne Age follows:

UK Tories slam Tony Abbott on climate policy
by Paola Totaro

The attitude of Prime Minister Tony Abbott to the global challenges of climate change is "eccentric", "baffling" and "flat earther", according to a group of senior British Conservatives.

The group, including Prime Minister David Cameron's Minister for Energy and a former Thatcher Minister and chairman of the Conservative Party, says Mr Abbot's position on climate change represents a betrayal of the fundamental ideals of Conservatism and those of his political heroine, Margaret Thatcher.

In a series of wide-ranging, separate interviews on UK climate change policy with The Age, they warn that Australia is taking enormous risks investing in coal and will come under increasing market and political pressure to play its part in the global battle against climate change.

Their comments come almost 25 years to the day since former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher addressed the United Nations to place climate change on the global environmental agenda. "It is mankind and his activities which are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways," she said Mr Abbott, as recently as June, insisted he should not be stereotyped as a conventional traditionalist, declaring he wanted to be a "reforming conservative" in the mould of Mrs Thatcher.

According to Lord Deben, chairman of the independent Climate Change Commission and a minister in both the Thatcher and Major governments, Australia will come under increasing market pressure to respond to the global shift toward renewable energy.

A former chairman of the British Conservative Party, Lord Deben said Mr Abbott has betrayed the fundamental tenets of conservatism itself.

"I have no doubt that people like David Cameron will be saying to Tony Abbott 'look conservatives are supposed to conserve, they are supposed to hand on to the next generation something better than they received themselves'."

Tim Yeo, chairman of the UK's parliamentary select committee on energy and climate change and a former environment minister under John Major, likened those who question the existence and the science of climate change as "the flat earthers of the 16th century".

"Some of us are very perplexed. I was last in Australia at the beginning of last year, before the election and had conversations with people on both sides of the political divide. I was amazed at some of the views.

"If I was Australian, I'd be concerned if my country's economic future and prosperity became dependent on continued coal export."

The United Kingdom led the world in 2008 by legislating for long-term, ambitious emissions reductions of 80 per cent by 2050 – and has already achieved a 25 per cent drop on 1990 levels. In June, David Cameron opened the world's largest offshore wind farm with 175 turbines in the Thames Estuary.

Almost 20 per cent of Britain's electricity is now produced by renewables, with eight per cent powered by wind – equivalent to about 6.5 million homes.

The UK's energy market reforms and the drive to transform the economy to a low carbon model are supported by all the major political parties.

Greg Barker, David Cameron's Minister for Energy and Climate Change until June this year said: "I think there is a lot of concern about Australia and yes, perhaps it is disproportionate versus its place in the global economy. But because of [our] close historical, emotional and family ties, people are concerned, slightly baffled by the approach that Australia is taking which looks, actually, slightly eccentric," he said.

Mr Abbott declined to comment.

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