Oh, Tony Abbott. If he weren’t such a dire shit hellbent on installing a religious regime via sheer malicious ineptitude, you’d almost feel sorry for him.
Not only has his side of the marriage equality debate lost spectacularly, but his youngest daughter, fitness blogger Frances, openly barracked for the YES campaign.
And now she’s gone and publicly announced her engagement to a bloke she appears to have been seeing for a grand total of two weeks, weightlifter and Olympic rower Sam Loch.
She announced the impending nuptials on Instagram last night, but it’s taken until this evening for Tony to respond, and he’s done it in just the most out of touch, embarrassing dad-on-the-internet way possible: via a totally unnecessary series of tweets.
Apparently missing the memo that everyone’s got a 280 character limit on Twitter now (or more likely, he hasn’t updated an app or an iOS since Frances moved out of the family home), he sent these two lukewarm dribbles of enthusiasm out into the cyber-nether:
Really thrilled at the news of Francie and Sam’s engagement. 1/2
— Tony Abbott (@HonTonyAbbott) November 20, 2017
We are very proud of her and the Abbotts are looking forward to welcoming Sam into the family. 2/2
— Tony Abbott (@HonTonyAbbott) November 20, 2017
That full stop at the end of the first one… ouch.
Aside from the technological bumbling and tone inconsistencies at work here, people were very quick to jump on to what’s been perceived as a li’l bit of hypocrisy on old Tone’s behalf.
Sanctity of marriage is ok even though she barely knows him? Asking on behalf of all the wounded LGBT people you subjected to a hate campaign of lies. #hypocrite
— Brenton Parry (@aussiebrenton) November 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/base615/status/932536550826565632
Phew ! Atleast their not gay ! A 2 week hetro relationship gotta be > than any long term lgbtqi relationship right ??
— Bruce Koala (@walkerb100) November 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/TiffanyBakker/status/932540923644403713
Should we get Australia to vote on whether it’s ok for them to marry?
— C Grade Cyclist (@CGradeCyclist) November 20, 2017
Very happy your daughter has the privilege of getting officially engaged after knowing this man 2 weeks. My friends David and Randal had to wait 40 years.
— Diane Connolly (@amicus_AU) November 20, 2017
Ahh, Tony. Tony, Tony, Tony. Life’s not working out the way you’d planned it, and you’ve got no-one to blame but yourself, your inexplicably cool daughter, and the 61% of the country who is 100% fed up with your homophobic bullshit.
Congrats, Frances. Pity about your old man.
