BY betraying Andrew Wilkie, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has shown a written, signed agreement with her is as worthless as her word... Ms Gillard, it seems, reserves the right to back out of anything if it suits her immediate political interest.

"The Budget will be back in surplus in 2013 if I’m re-elected, if my Government is re-elected on Saturday. .. The Budget is coming back to surplus, no ifs no buts it will happen."

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's broken promise on pokies reform is Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's fault, two of her senior ministers say.

Anti-pokies Senator Nick Xenophon:Indeed. Here are just some of Gillard's broken promises and flops:And still to come:Gillard's record of broken promises is astonishing. She rashly promises what she cannot - or should not - deliver, only to back down through political expediency or a bruising confrontation with political reality. Needless to say, if John Howard had had such a record, he'd have been flayed alive by the Canberra press gallery. How Gillard can still be taken seriously beggars belief. UPDATE Do excuses come any more pathetic?UPDATE Got a problem? Is the government stuffed or your drain blocked? Is Qantas grounded or another boat at Christmas Island? Then blame Abbott. (Thanks to reader Andrew.)