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Tony hearts big government?

14 October 2016

8:06 PM

14 October 2016

8:06 PM

Tony Abbott Addresses Media Following His Defeat As Prime MinisterA mixture of horror, dismay and disappointment amongst my right-wing Facebook friends greeted Tony Abbott’s UK Diary column in this week’s “Spectator”, in which The Once And The Future Prime Minister (just kidding, his name would have to be Arthur for that to be true) praises the very same sentiments that recently dis-May-ed (sorry) my right-wing Facebook friends in Great Britain:

Bill Clinton was lionised for the dictum it’s ‘the economy, stupid’ but being all-about-economics has done little good for any centre right leader.

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