Nielsen: curtains for Gillard with Labor 44 to 56

[nero_bolt]

The Nielsen poll confirms the Gillard Government is at catastrophic lows in what may turn out to be Gillard’s last week:

The two-party-preferred split sits at 44 per cent for Labor and 56 per cent for the Coalition, which represents a 6 per cent swing to the Coalition from the 50/50 result in 2010…

The one advantage that Labor once pinned all its hopes and strategy on is long gone:

The telephone survey of 1400 people, taken from Thursday, March 14, to Saturday, March 16, also showed Ms Gillard’s satisfaction rating continuing to drop and Mr Abbott’s continuing to improve with the Opposition Leader now preferred prime minister by 49 per cent of voters against Ms Gillard on 43 per cent - down 2 points.

This is yet more evidence that last week’s incredibly flattering Newspoll result was yet another false dawn.

Gillard has spent billions she doesn’t have and trashed good public policy for xenophobic votes - an...

Julia Gillard has spent the past month campaigning energetically as she approaches the election. What difference has it made to Labor’s standing with the people? None, according to Monday’s Nielsen poll…

The Prime Minister conducted a live-in campaign tour of western Sydney, announced $1 billion for the WestConnex expressway, promised a brace of benefits for workers, pledged $1 billion for aged care staff, attacked foreign workers on 457 visas and championed ‘’Aussie jobs,’’ and presided over strong growth in the number of people in jobs.

But Gillard is utterly determined to keep driving that bus off a cliff, and is sure no one will try ...

The confidence is evident when she is asked about the prospect of someone ‘’tapping her on the shoulder’’…

‘’It just won’t happen...”

It’s there, too, when she is asked if she will take the initiative and stand down if the situation demands. The leadership decisions were made when she made the ‘’very tough’’ call to challenge Rudd in 2010, she says, and when Rudd’s subsequent challenge was emphatically rejected last year. ‘’I haven’t revisited it since and I won’t be revisiting it… If I haven’t flinched yet, why would I flinch now?’’

Gillard is no good, won’t change and won’t resign. Is there really no one in Labor to say that leaves the party with just one option? 

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/nielsen_curtains_for_gillard_with_labor_44_to_56/

[catsnknots]

lol... Gillards statement makes the media laws make sense... 

apparently her low polls are all the medias fault..... 

so are they trying to change the laws before the next election so that they can control what is being said???? hmmm

[kengillard]

what a suspicious person you are cat!!  :^O

[silverfaun]

It's chilly here this morning brrr, I wonder if JG is feeling the icy wind on her neck, exposed as it is, after another disastrous poll. There's no way back from these disastrous polls for JG,  2pp preferred 44% to 56%, electoral oblivion.

It's only going to get worse if they pass or don't pass the press regulation law, people won't forget.

One wonders why there is such a suicidal  policy & then the kow towing to the unions with entrenching new industruial law, the carbon tax driving one business to the wall each week, why would anybody do this to our country? what is her thinking? Is it anything to cling onto power? is there no level she won't plumb to the detriment of Australia.

Loving Malcontent these last few days, he's been out there prosecuting his media objection very soundly.:-x

Every media heavy are heading to Canberra this morning.

[freakiness]

the carbon tax driving one business to the wall each week,

where is the evidence?

Where is the proof of these claims?

Businesses have been coming and going forever, long before the CT.

[lakeland27]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-18/rowland-media-regulation-stitch-up/4578648

[nero_bolt]

where is the evidence?

Where is the proof of these claims?

Businesses have been coming and going forever, long before the CT.

Not sure what parallel universe you live in but its not the one most of us live in....  But another labor supporter that has never been in business or owned a business is my guess yet thinks its all so easy.....  Cant wait to see the end of this destructive labor govt..... 

From my post 65 here  (full story)  http://community.ebay.com.au/topic/Community-Spirit/Carbon-Tax-Just/600157494 

Australian Securities & Investments Commission reports record company closures, many blame carbon tax

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/companies/australian-securities-investments-commission-reports-recor...

THE carbon tax is contributing to a record number of firms going to the wall with thousands of employees being laid off and companies forced to close factories that have stood for generations.

Soaring energy bills caused by the Government's climate change scheme have been called the "straw that broke the camel's back" by company executives and corporate rescue doctors who are trying to save ailing firms.

New data from the corporate regulator reveals insolvencies have hit a record high over the past 12 months, led by widespread failures in manufacturing and construction, which accounted for almost one-fifth of collapses.

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission reports there were 10,632 company collapses for the 12 months to March 1 - averaging 886 a month - with the number of firms being placed in administration more than 12 per cent higher than during the global financial crisis.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/companies/australian-securities-investments-commission-reports-recor...

[lakeland27]

those are people with no business experience largely looking for somewhere to put super payouts and the like. 90% of them have always failed , with a larger pool of these people the figures are naturally higher. i havent encountered one genuine business thats failed because of the carbon tax, just inexperience and overly optimistic projections.

[catsnknots]

hahaha

sorry nero.... doing it again... will report my post

[lakeland27]

read more http//www news .com is not a reply worth  expletive.