Debono IMO the only members that would want this forum shut down or heavily moderated are the minority posters from the left. They have had a good run politically and faced with the pain of losing their position would rather someone take the bat and ball away from everyone than stand at the crease and play 'cricket'.
There seems to have been an unwritten code of conduct for this Political Forum that past and present PMs are off limits to disrepsectful comments / taunts. This leaves opposition leaders open to unfair treatment and is the reason why this forum is wide open to baiting flaming and results in people venting their feelings a less flattering way to the current PM as a response.
Include opposition leaders in your off limits area, scrutinise and moderate only to this extent with severe penalty and you might get some more peaceful balance.
I for one would like to see some try to use a more sophisticated and less offensive vocabulary to help us see Abbott's and other's faults. They might be more convincing that way.
