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If he's happy to lead Labor in opposition, he's a complete fruitcake.
If he's happy to lead Labor in opposition, he's a complete fruitcake.What Rudd will do is anyone's guess.
There's a world of quango's and lobby groups out there for her. She's already started working on this, there'll be more invites for dinner with the PM. Board memberships (shudder), diplomatic posts (shudder)...If Gillard loses, as almost certainly she will, I wouldn't have thought she has the personality to retire to the back bench, and will rather exit politics..
It will be interesting to see what happens to Simon Crean in the month ahead.Were Rudd and his supporters setup. Rudd backers have pretty much been cleared out.Code:
Rudd is so much like Gillard - just interested in themselves.
What a hypocritical weasel.
I feel sorry for Crean and Ferguson - giving up their careers for these two.
The Labor party is shot to pieces. It will be in their own interests to lose power so that they can start rebuilding.
exactly.hypocritical weasel
Seems like it, doesn't it. This was suggested yesterday by one of the many commentators, i.e. that Crean agreed to be the sacrificial lamb. If this was indeed the strategy, it has worked well for Gillard. She was incredibly cool throughout.Were Rudd and his supporters setup. Rudd backers have pretty much been cleared out.Code:
Agree. What talent there was in the party is now sitting on the back bench.I feel sorry for Crean and Ferguson - giving up their careers for these two.
Sacked minister Simon Crean, who sparked Labor's leadership crisis this week, says Kevin Rudd's camp had fully endorsed his intervention to demand the Prime Minister call a spill.
His account directly contradicts the version of Mr Rudd, who on Friday said he had ''not expected the spontaneous combustion of Mr Crean's'' demand for a ballot, and promised he would never again seek the leadership.
Mr Rudd's last-minute decision to back out of a challenge has led to bitter recriminations among his supporters, with Mr Crean describing Mr Rudd's key support group as ''disorganised, unbelievable and shameless''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...move--crean-20130322-2glci.html#ixzz2OKApARj3
The answers about Simon's loyalties will become clearer if/when Julia Gillard restores him to the front bench.Simon Crean asserts that Rudd knew of Crean's call for a spill on Julia Gillard's leadership.
What talent there was in the party is now sitting on the back bench.
And just goes to show that the pollies are more interested in their own ego's/power trips, than running the country and really doing what they got voted in for.
Wow, have you just discovered that people eat muesli for breakfast too?
.Sir Humphrey: If you want to be really sure that the minister doesn't accept it you must say the decision is courageous.
Bernard: And that’s worse than controversial?
Sir Humphrey: Controversial only means this will lose you votes, courageous means this will lose you the election
In today's Galaxy poll - in answer to the question "How would you describe Kevin Rudd in the leadership spill?" - 55% said he had been 'honourable and true to his word'.
His fans still refuse to recognise that he just didn't have the numbers, and are happy to leave him on the moral high ground.
He had enough public charisma for a complacent electorate to remove a tired Howard government and that's it. As time has shown, there was little substance underneath, a lot like Labor's time in office since 2007.Never has one so talentless and with such a challenged personality risen so high.
Does anyone have any idea what Michael Smith in on about in the following video,
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2013/03/what-happened/comments/page/2/#comments
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