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After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

silverfaun — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:51:44 GMT

All the colour & movement since Rudd knifed Miss Gillard is nothing more than campaigning on the public purse not governing. The totally ott Yirrkala speech yesterday was Rudd at his best, trying to blame shift onto Abbott & politicizing an important day for the indigenous of the Top End. Using this occasion for himself.

Rudd outright lied twice blaming Abbott for heel dragging the constitutional change so important for Aboriginals when he knew that Abbott, rightly , supported constitutional change & Labor had bi partisan support for it.

The thinness of policy coming from Rudd & the overblown rhetoric says nothing has changed for Rudd, still the narcissist endlessly referring to himself, I, the prime minister of Australia, at every turn & denying, by never referring, that the Gillard years ever existed. It's like watching a deluded madman on a stick.

The unions will allow him to be the PM as long as he doesn't try to restrict their power.

ANYONE who thinks that Kevin Rudd can change the ALP's leadership selection rules is ignoring the history of Rudd in his first term as prime minister. Ultimately, unions won't allow him to make the change. What they will allow is the impression of Rudd being a strong leader as a political ploy for the election campaign. After the election they'll predictably knife him again.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/unions-wont-let-rudd-change-party-rules/story-e6frgd0x-1226677324304

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

kengillard — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 23:52:30 GMT

anything the labor party did would NOT surprise me, after what''s happened with the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd fiasco.

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

***super_nova*** — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:07:29 GMT

Oh, please, stop referring to change of labor leader as "knifing"; you do not use the word for any other change of leaders. Nobody said that when Baillieu was replaced by Dr Napthine, nor there was such outcry when Mills has been replaced as Northern Territory chief minister while on an overseas trip to Japan.

And you are forgetting that most of the Gillard staunch supporters are leaving parliament at the next elections. Rudd always had his supporters and new people who will be nominating for the vacated seats know who Rudd is.

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

silverfaun — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:44:29 GMT

Knifing is the correct political term used for this type of behaviour. This term is what politicians have used since parliament was formed. Sorry if you don't like it but that's the correct term.

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

lakeland27 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:08:07 GMT

desperate .

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

freakiness — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:17:42 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
desperate .

Yep, desperate to stop the news of just how dishonest, hypocritical and nasty the alternative is.

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

lightningdance — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:38:39 GMT

Anybody notice just how mant times Rudd refers to himself as PM. He manages to reference himself in just about every interview.

I won't be fooled by his Hi I'm Kevvie & I'm here to help, yeah right, just like he "helped" dismantle the border protection policy.

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

newstart2380 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:46:29 GMT

Maybe it coulde be changed to "knitting needles" in the back.

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

not_an_eloi — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:40:52 GMT

funny, thought i posted earlier, that turnbull knifed nelson, and abbott knifed turnbull

appears to 'ave disappeared, though.

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

a_dingo_ate_my_chinwagger — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:49:25 GMT

Why are you so surprised? They're politicians and they'd climb over a skinking pile of **bleep** in order to advance their position. You think that any of them is averse to a little bit of knifing now and again?

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

silverfaun — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 04:42:50 GMT

He who lives by the aword will die by the sword.........watch out Kevvie.

Gotta zip

THE idea that the ALP will ever allow Kevin Rudd to cement his position as party leader, and potentially as prime minister is, as Ken Phillips points out, fanciful ("Unions won't let Rudd change party rules", 11/7).

Labor presently favours Rudd merely to exploit his popularity. This is a short-term tactic in the broader game of power. Rudd himself understands this. Hence the call to neuter caucus and insulate himself from the politics of his own party, which Rudd deeply distrusts.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/letters/the-labor-party-wont-allow-rudd-to-cement-his-position/story-fn558imw-1226677837947

Re: After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

spotweldersfriend — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:37:51 GMT

Dr Naphthalene should be mothballed.