Jackie Lambie supports Clive Palmer and feels we should double our armed forces

to protect us from the Chinese.

Lets hope the Chinese do not take it seriously.

The Chinese have long memories and will not forget these insults.

we can't expect anything better  from this no hoper Clive we don't need him and his mob in parliament,I hope all the court cases go against him and forces him out of parliament

Dear China,

We here in Team Straya do sincerely apologise for having such stupid politicians. It's got nothing to do with us team members cos absolutely nobody voted for them. Mr Abbott, Ms Bishop, Mr Palmer and Ms Lambie just popped up out of nowhere and took us all by surprise. Now they embarrass us all over the world, it's not just you they say dumb things to. We have to live with them cos we're stuck on the same island together being a team. So thank your lucky stars China that you don't have these stupid people on your team.

Yours sincerely,

Most of Team Straya.

China will just treat Australia as an irritating flea, with a globe trotting, self promoting, PM trying to big note himself on the world stage,

Nice to get a foreign view of our popular PM

Yet evidence is all around them that conservative principles actually do win elections. Stephen Harper has shown that repeatedly as Canada's Prime Minister, as did Mr Abbott's Australian mentor John Howard, who won four general elections in a row.

And at home, this is precisely where Ukip's appeal also lies. Tony Abbott is a 'conviction politician', with a strong moral sense rooted in his religious faith.
Indeed, while his social conservatism has made him a boo-figure for the Left, more thoughtful observers realise that it is those very same conservative principles which provide him with the compassionate edge which the Cameroons have so desperately tried to adopt.

What they didn't realise was that striking shallow poses over such fetishes as man-made global warming, gay marriage or international aid was not compassionate at all - quite the reverse, in fact.

Adopting positions which distort scientific, social or political evidence in order to support an unchallengeable belief sets one social group against another, supports the victory of the strong over the weak and replaces truth with ideological dogma.
In other words, this pseudo-compassion (which the Left wears on its sleeves to proclaim its own virtue) is actually responsible for creating a more brutalised, selfish and irresponsible society.
By comparison, Mr Abbott's beliefs are sincere: he lives a compassionate life - for example, doing community work among Aboriginal Australians to improve their lot.

Firm: Mr Abbott is a patriot and always puts his country's national interest first
And while he opposes gay marriage, he has a lesbian sister who has campaigned for him - thus giving the lie to the calumny that anyone opposing gay marriage is a bigot who poses a threat to homosexuals.

Above all, however, he is patriotic. That does not mean he indulges in sentimentalised lists of Australian achievements (in the way Mr Cameron did last week with regard to Britain's successes after a jibe from the Russians about us being a 'small island').

It means he always puts his country's national interest first. You could never imagine Tony Abbott surrendering Australia's ability to govern itself to some supra-national entity, as did British governments with the EU.

Nor claiming he would restore that sovereignty, then backing away from that undertaking, as Mr Cameron has done. In other words, in a world made super-cynical by the supreme slipperiness of politicians, Mr Abbott is as solid as they come.

By sticking to what he believes through thick and thin, he has shown he is not motivated by the desire to win power just for power's sake - the characteristic with which David Cameron is associated and which repels so many voters.
In addition, Mr Abbott did not buckle under the volleys of insults and brickbats hurled his way. He has thus achieved something rather more remarkable than just a general election victory.

He has faced down the intellectual thuggery and demonisation by the Left, and shown that a politician who refuses to be cowed by this apparently all-encompassing intimidation can win big.
Mr Cameron has congratulated the new Australian Prime Minister-elect, saying it would be 'great to work with another Centre-Right leader'.

One does wonder whether Mr Abbott sees Mr Cameron the same way.

Not surprisingly, however, some Tory MPs have got the point and are calling on Mr Cameron to adopt similar policies.

After all, look at what Mr Abbott promises to do. Axe the carbon tax. Reduce overseas aid. Limit immigration. Cut taxes. Invest in infrastructure.

In short, Britain has every reason to be envious of its Aussie friends. Can we clone Tony Abbott, please, and put him into Number 10 forthwith?

m.phillips@dailymail.co.uk

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Just been reading an article  out of China via the China Times (a communist owned newspaper and fierecely nationalistic...many Chinese do not share the view of this newspaper) and in it they are very angry at the comments of Clive Palmer.

Calls for him to be banned from China and no more dealings with him or his company.

Many here in Australia do not realise that if it were not for China we may have gone the same way as other countries when the GFC hit the world.

I would like to know how much money we borrowed from China??

Having done business with Citic-Pacific Mining I know how hard it is to get them to pay their bills. Several times phoned their office to tell them our finance manger was on his way to their office to pick up the 'way overdue' cheque. If someone owed me $500M and I had $20M on deposit from then I too would consider it to be my money, to spend as I like.