After the election the unions will knife Rudd again

[silverfaun]

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/sto...

[kengillard]

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

[***super_nova***]

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. 

[silverfaun]

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.

[lakeland27]

desperate .

[freakiness]

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@lakeland27 wrote:
desperate .

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

[lightningdance]

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.

[newstart2380]

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

[not_an_eloi]

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

appears to 'ave disappeared, though.    

[a_dingo_ate_my_chinwagger]

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?