Shorten Deteriorating Fast

[silverfaun]

Nothing surprising here regarding Shortens failure, I have been predicting ever since he became leader that he will fail because he is the product of a broken labor party.

He cannot move towards a fresh new ideas party, the Labor movement is tied to last century ideals and ideas and shackled to the unions who control it.

Shorten  and his front bench and the rest of the caucus  are languishing down amongst the detritus of the broken and failed policies of Rudd and Gillard, if they don't move forward they will stay down.

  Failing the pub test and deteriorating fast

BILL Shorten is failing the pub test. The Opposition Leader is shrinking in voters’ eyes at an alarming rate.

After a meteoric rise in voter satisfaction and a rapid pegging back of Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister in October and November, he has seen his personal support being rapidly lost and he’s no longer virtually equal on the question of better prime minister.

Gifted a natural Labor platform of thousands of job losses in manufacturing and the prospect of a hard-line Coalition budget, he and Labor are losing ground. The ALP’s rhetoric is wearing thin.

After almost six months at Labor’s helm, satisfaction with Shorten is on 33 per cent, virtually back to where it was when he began, after he defeated Anthony Albanese as Labor leader with a better parliamentary caucus vote.

More disastrously, dissatisfaction has jumped 19 points since October to reach 43 per cent last weekend and there has been no sign of a change in the trend.

After Shorten closed in on the “unpopular” and “unelectable” Abbott as preferred prime minister to get within a point — 37 to 38 per cent two weeks ago — Abbott again has a significant lead of 42 to 36 per cent.

What’s more, the trend of deterioration in Shorten’s support is accelerating alarmingly for Labor.

Since parliament began this year, Abbott’s downward satisfaction spiral has steadied, and rose again last weekend for the first time since October, but dissatisfaction with Shorten is rising sharply.

Most importantly, while Labor’s primary vote of 35 per cent remains ahead of its disastrous September election result of 33.3 per cent, it is only marginally so, with large numbers of voters apparently “parked” amongst supporters of the Greens and others.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/failing-the-pub-test-and-deteriorating-fast/story...

[lakeland27]

''The Daily Apoligist''

[freakiness]

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@lurker17260 wrote:
What is a pub test and how are is it done? Is it different from a club test? What about wine bars, are they tested?
Teetotallers? Do they have a say?
Coffee shops; surely they'd get a look in. All those people sitting around on the pavement sipping lattes.

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You'd have to ask Abbott's man, Shanahan, the writer of the OP.

[lakeland27]

shanahan also known as the LNP's embedded propagandist.  credlin (another drunk driver ) co -authors these things.

[purplecarrot-top]

As a lot know I travel a lot. Meet heaps of people. Have yet to meet anyone who admits voting for this government or liking what Abbott and the government are doing. Most seem to dislike Abbott.

[debra9275]

ah so he's the proverbial fly on the wall. perhaps he missed his calling & should've been a novelist

PCT I've noticed that too, especially among the younger and the older generations

[silverfaun]

The blind and out of touch. What else do we expect from the apologists for everything Labor.

Sorry to say but all the bleating and chest beating is only a very small microcosm of some, most of the rest of Labor are despairing at just what a massive loser they have been stuck with in Shorten.

The wider community and the majority of the Labor party can see  how bad the Labor party is travelling  and how the wider community can see straight through Bill and the front bench failures sitting there every day asking their insipid pathetic questions.

Haven't landed a blow yet and as long as they stick their heads in the sand and not do a root and branch reform of the party they will languish in the pit of failure they so readily put themselves.

Labor is stuck in the past and crippled by the union bosses, party ideologues and heartless apparatchiks.

It will be interesting to see what happens.

How long will they limp along with this  weak leader? will Bill resign for the "good of the party" like he stabbed Gillard for "the good of the party" or will the knives that have been sharpened and waiting come out? and there are many.

I can't see any way forward for Labor if they stick with the Status Quo, Down Down Deeper Down Down.  lol

[silverfaun]

lol the anecdote posts

[lurker17260]

This wider community and most of Labor that you speak of. Were they all in the pub when you obtained their opinions?

[silverfaun]

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@lurker17260 wrote:
This wider community and most of Labor that you speak of. Were they all in the pub when you obtained their opinions?

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Interpersonal?? or do you have a constructive comment. Goads and baits can land one in very hot water so I will decline to respond to the body of your post. Thanks very much.

[lurker17260]

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@silverfaun wrote:

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@lurker17260 wrote:
This wider community and most of Labor that you speak of. Were they all in the pub when you obtained their opinions?

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Interpersonal?? or do you have a constructive comment. Goads and baits can land one in very hot water so I will decline to respond to the body of your post. Thanks very much.

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No, not interpersonal at all.  You expressed what you said the wider community and most of Labour thought.  I'm interested in how you obtained that information.