{"id":30018,"date":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-colleague-calls-out-tony-abbott-s-biggest-flaw-live-on-air\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"former-colleague-calls-out-tony-abbott-s-biggest-flaw-live-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/former-colleague-calls-out-tony-abbott-s-biggest-flaw-live-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Former colleague calls out Tony Abbott\u2019s biggest flaw live on air"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former Howard government minister Amanda Vanstone has slammed former PM Tony Abbott as a \u201cnarcissist\u201d.<\/h3>\n<p>Her comments come on the heels of Abbott speaking out publicly against the Turnbull Liberal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbbott is not going to come back. His own supporters now recognise that they\u2019ve been used,\u201d Vanstone said on 7\u2019s Sunrise on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a narcissist, and it\u2019s always been about Tony &#8212; always &#8212; from the minute he was born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/310037681&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She said Abbott had no chance of reclaiming the Prime Ministership\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has got no support whatsoever \u2013 people can see him for what he is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow low can you go when you make a speech saying you\u2019re not going to snipe &#8212; unlike Gillard, that\u2019s what he said, he wasn\u2019t going to be a sniper &#8212; and then hop on the phone and organise for a group of people to meet regularly by phone and do the sniping?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the same time, Christopher Pyne told David and Will on FIVEAA<\/strong> that there had been no consideration of calling a spill to settle leadership tensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course not,\u201d Pyne said. \u201cThat would just be allowing politics to become soap opera rather than what it is, which is government getting on with governing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure that many people here in the press gallery much prefer to report on the internals of political parties, but when I go to the supermarkets and the clubs and so on in my electorate they aren\u2019t talking about those things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re talking about the costs of childcare, the cost of living, and in South Australia\u2026 the cost of electricity and whether there\u2019s going to be another blackout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is we\u2019re not going to be distracted by the different views of particularly backbenchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crow-cam-ellis-yolmen-out-for-the-year\"><strong>OUT FOR THE YEAR &#8212; TERRIBLE NEWS FOR THE ADELAIDE CROWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/alarm-bells-ringing-for-port-adelaide\"><strong>ALARM BELLS RINGING FOR PORT ADELAIDE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Howard government minister Amanda Vanstone has slammed former PM Tony Abbott as a \u201cnarcissist\u201d. Her comments come on the heels of Abbott speaking out publicly against the Turnbull Liberal government. \u201cAbbott is not going to come back. His own supporters now recognise that they\u2019ve been used,\u201d Vanstone said on 7\u2019s Sunrise on Wednesday. \u201cHe\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former colleague calls out Tony Abbott\u2019s biggest flaw live on air - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/former-colleague-calls-out-tony-abbott-s-biggest-flaw-live-on-air\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former colleague calls out Tony Abbott\u2019s biggest flaw live on air\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Howard government minister Amanda Vanstone has slammed former PM Tony Abbott as a \u201cnarcissist\u201d. 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