I thought that by removing the juvenile slur, your sentence would be improved without changing the meaning.
If that changed the meaning then I will repeat it in full, as that dramatically alters my opinion of it.
"The Abbott back slapers argue that it was Abbott that stopped the boats but the evidence shows that after Rudd announced his policy the boat arrivals fell dramatically"
The interpretation I gave it was that Abbott finished the work Rudd started.
Are you actually saying that anybody who gives Abbott any credit for putting and end to the people-smuggling to Australia is an 'Abbott back slaper' and that the boats would have stopped with no further input needed?
