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Prime Minister John Howard is once more trying to weasel out of past promises, this time his promise that interest rates would always be lower under a Coalition Government, and an ad that ran during the last election which stated that there wouldn’t be any interest rate rises if the Coalition was returned.

Of course now we know that interest rates have steadily risen since the last election and while it is true that they might have risen more under a Labor Government, most people are quite rightly upset as the implication was always that the interest rates would, at worst, not increase under Liberal leadership. And that is quite obviously false.

As Labor accused Mr Howard of weasel words over interest rates, the Prime Minister said it was more important to concentrate on the future and “not so much what happened three years ago”. [Source: SMH]

The future, Mr Howard? Would that be the future where interest rates will always be lower under a Liberal/National Coalition Government?

As a former lawyer, I’m sure you’re familiar with the phrase, “goes to pattern, your honour.” You make a promise or otherwise insinuate something will be true of your Government, should the public choose to vote for you, then at some point after the election you go back on your promise or carefully spin your pre-election statements in an attempt to make it appear like you weren’t telling lies.

Well, the public is starting to wise up to you. Between the GST, “Children Overboard”, interest rates and a myriad other things it is abundantly clear that you can not be trusted with the future of this country, Mr Howard.

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