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Well the Oct/Nov election may be on the cards.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/alpgreens-war-escalates-20120709-21ru6.html
The greens can walk away from the agreement, they have already achieved more than they would have expected.
If they decide that labor are getting leverage off them, why not cross the floor with the coalition on a vote of no confidence.
Probably won't happen, but it depends how feral Swan and Co get, one just has to think back to the Rudd incident.
Milne could be a wild card, with Bob not in the picture, the good will may not be there.
They can't win on this. For any positive reaction they might achieve by dissing the Greens, there will be the obvious question asked "well, why the hell are you in an alliance with them if you so despise them".What a joke this Labor Government is.
All of a sudden they don't like the Greens.
Each member is coming up with "oh yeah the Greens are no good - I've always thought this"
It does increasingly seem that Labor's current farting in bed is creating unplanned discomfort for both occupants as evidenced by the follwowing slapdown from Christine Milne,Already happening imo. I don't think Ms Gillard has much to do with this present uprising. It is as much a movement against her as it is against the Greens. She is in a hell of a position, something she has brought entirely upon herself.
Senator Milne says the ALP is falling apart over asylum seekers and that has led powerbrokers from the left such as Doug Cameron to label the Greens "intransigent and immature".
"I think this is a crisis in the Labor Party, and it certainly undermines confidence in the prime minister," she told reporters on Tuesday.
"And those people on the left who now are coming out in such a vicious way, I think that's just reflecting the guilt and anger they feel that they have been forced in the Labor Party to roll over to what is an inhumane proposition in relation to asylum seekers.
"It's one that they have railed against for years under the Howard government.
If the Governor General (Quiten Byrce) was worth her salt she should have put and end to all the crap that is going with the Austrlaian Government, dissolved parliament and called a double dissolution.
Unfortunately she is too biased to the left wing socialist Labor Party.
Labor wants to get it together soon or they risk losing even more seats to the greens. The fact that they couldnt see that the greens were after labors base voters shows how dumb this current lot are. Its getting painful to watch
There's enough turmoil there to make Rob Oakshott worry about his bread and butter,They must be in utter turmoil, somethings got to give, probably when parliament resumes.
Err Rob,He said despite this week's spat, he stood by his 2010 assessment that the ALP and the Greens had a "more functional" relationship than the Coalition and the Greens.
It's becoming increasingly clear that the independents who have helped Labor form government would rather go down with the ship than change sides.I think Byrce can only step in when there in a motion moved.
So if Abbott can get the some MP's from the minor parties to support the motion,
then Byrce can anoint the motion.
Well the W.A Labor Party know what the general population think of the Gillard Green/Labor Government.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/14203076/no-gillard-for-state-election-says-mcgowan/
.Mr McGowan said his stand on Federal Labor was more about holding Premier Colin Barnett to account.
“I just don’t want to see Mr Barnett get away with an election victory on the basis of it not being about his policies and his record,” he said.
Yes doc, it's a shame they are so self centred, Oakeshott thought there was a better chance of him saving his ar$e with labour/green fragmented mess. If he had gone with the coalition, he would have had the say he deserved, sod all. What an absolute goose, how a useless pieces of ###### like him and Wilkie get voted in completely beats me.
Oakeshott could still save his a*^se and at the same time make a hero of himself by moving a vote of no-cofidence. I reckon his electorate would put him on a pedestal.
I believe he can't do it untill August. If there is an election before hand he will lose all of his parliamentary handouts.
A more immediate consequence of Labor preferencing against the Greens would be the impact it might have on the overall composition of the Senate. Unless Labor's political fortunes improve considerably before the next election, the likelihood is that Labor preferencing against the Greens would deliver the conservatives a No 4 Senate spot in some states.
Were that to happen Abbott's conservatives might control the Senate in their own right. That would allow him to repeal the carbon and mining taxes without a fight.
Perhaps some within the Labor Party would not be too upset were that to happen, avoiding a situation whereby they would have to stand by their pre-election rhetoric that they would continue to block Abbott's repeal efforts in opposition, or force a double dissolution on the carbon tax soon after the next election.
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