Gossipy, bitchy, and highly readable - a friend said this was like modern day Seutonius and she was completely right, it's an invaluable look at the corridor of power. It's a hatchet job from Savva who was clearly offended by the behaviour of Abbott and Credlin on several levels - trying to get her fired from The Australian for her columns, not attributing one liners she originated in her columns, shoddy treatment of staffers (of which Savva used to be one), betraying the conservative cause.
There's a lot of rumour and innuendo but also plenty of fact and assertions and most of this is all too easy to believe - Abbott's confidence in opposing everything but lack of confidence in actually governing; Tories clinging to national security; the Liberals being as faction riddled as the ALP; Credlin determined to hold on to power, and thus squeezing out the wife; micro managing; hot tempers (probably caused by lack of sleep and pressure as anything).
Savva is no leftie - she calls Shorten the worst Labor leader since Arthur Calwell (so Mark Latham was great was he?), constantly refers to the disaster of the Rudd-Gillard years, says Abbott's core constituency loathe the ABC (do they?), scolds Abbott for not taking the hint of a Rupert Murdoch tweet. Maybe this is why the book is so vicious. Great fun.
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