Shorten Deteriorating Fast

silverfaun
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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...

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yes, LL , I have noticed that too, it's rare to see a bp'er at work now isn't it?

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@azureline** wrote:

yes, LL , I have noticed that too, it's rare to see a bp'er at work now isn't it?


 yes. its seems very much self regulated Smiley Happy

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@azureline** wrote:

It seems to me that some feel interpersonal is only if it is in reply to them, not what they write in reply. Similar to vitriolic speech etc.


I think it's a bit rich to even accuse people of that after the accusations and attacks of recent times.

The hypocrisy is extraordinary.

 

 

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silverfaun
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I suppose if you haven't been the recipient of concerted  reporting then you wouldn't have anything to complain about.

 

As for the hypocrisy comment, got a mirror?

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@silverfaun wrote:

I suppose if you haven't been the recipient of concerted  reporting then you wouldn't have anything to complain about.

 

As for the hypocrisy comment, got a mirror?


Why do you think you're the only one who gets reported or sent on holidays?  

 

It wasn't me making false accusations and abusive comments.  I'm still waiting for examples of my spamming the boards with C&P scrollers?

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I think many of the posters here have, in the past, been the victims of such reports...................... it takes a special type of care to be unscathed by them.

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silverfaun
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If Bill Shorten were still a "faceless man" he would have organised a replacement for himself by now.Robot Embarassed

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i've seen his face, its real. he hasn't resorted to botox either.

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Why all the threads about the Leader of the Opposition ? Wouldnt your energies be better spent scrutinising the actions or lack thereof of the party in power ?

Why the need to continually bash-bash-bash Bill Shorten ?  When did he pee in yourcornflakes ?

 

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