Sorry Tony, but the only person you have to blame for being booted out of office is yourself | Malcolm Farr

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Politicians blaming other elements of government for their own failures is wrong - and bad for democracyThe excuses tumbled over each other as our former prime minister, Tony Abbott, gave his analysis of the failures of conservative governments including, of course, his own.
50% : So, like Trump, the basis of his government was instinct, but if he had his time again he would, again like Trump, produce concepts rather than detailed policy.
41% : He vigorously opposed same-sex-marriage, which a majority of Australians - and voters in his own electorate - supported.
32% : He could rank himself with other leaders whose quest for glory he considered had been violated by public servants and "the establishment" -- Donald Trump and Britain's Boris Johnson.
28% : The pleading for political innocence and victimhood may amuse some who believe Abbott is deeply in debt to fellow Liberal Scott Morrison for relieving him of the title of worst Australian prime minister of the modern era.
28% : And as Trump has done, Abbott would get right-wing thinktanks to fill his empty policy coffers.
24% : As for the now US president-elect, Abbott had this to say: "In 2016, Donald Trump was first elected on a promise to 'drain the swamp' but eventually 'the swamp' got him."But immediately after this passage he criticised Trump for his ignorance: "As someone who had never been in government and was unfamiliar with Washington, he had instincts rather than well-developed policies or even well-thought-through ideas for how to develop policy.

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