Simon Crean accuses Gillard of class warfare and a TIN EAR

[nero_bolt]

The true Labor people can see what Gillard has done to their party.... Trashed it and going tos end it to oblivion at the election...

I am suprised that the hard core labor true believers on here continue to support Gillard and co and defend her trashing on the once great Labor brand....

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EX-minister Simon Crean has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Julia Gillard, saying she has a "tin ear" for sound political strategy.

Mr Crean says Ms Gillard is engaging in class warfare by playing off interest groups, Fairfax Media reports.

He says he will continue to campaign for a return to Labor traditions and said the party was deluding itself that destabilisation by Kevin Rudd was the sole reason for its trouble in the polls.

"I've been through destabilisation," referring to the time when he was Labor leader in 2001-03, "and we never went this low."

He said Ms Gillard was not living up to the principles of consensus and inclusiveness established by former prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

"She's gone the class warfare," Mr Crean is quoted as telling Fairfax Media.

"The 457 visa debate was a good example of the message being taken out of context because it looked like we'll put Australians before foreigners. Unequivocally, immigration has been good for this country. That's not the ethos of the Hawke-Keating model. How have we built the country? By cohesion. We are seen outside as the great success story of multiculturalism. Why don't we play to it? Play to strength."

He said Mr Rudd was "just arrogant, but she's got a tin ear. She sits there - 'Mmm' and listens but it doesn't translate.

Because somewhere along the way she gets the word that here's the angle on how you get tomorrow's headline."

Ms Gillard sacked Mr Crean from her cabinet and submitted herself to a party room ballot for the leadership in March. But Mr Rudd declined to contest. Mr Crean said that Mr Rudd was now "finished".

After his unsuccessful attempt to install Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, Mr Crean said the destabilisation within the party would stop and Prime Minister Julia Gillard had his support.

"A line has been drawn ... on the leadership issue," he told Fairfax Radio in March.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/simon-crean-accuses-gillard-of-class-warfare/story-fncynjr2-122...

[lakeland27]

yes. he did. the rest is just rubbish from the worst papers you will ever see. :^O

[kengillard]

we all know that anyway?  I almost feel sorry for her...but not quite

[not_an_eloi]

"fairfax  media  reports"   :^O

can't see crean mouthing any of that alleged interview, in 'is own words.

who was crean talkin' to?   what is the context around this story?

when, and where do they reckon, this is supposed to 'ave taken place

no journalist source.

what questions he was being asked,  for crean to "say" this

i say bs

[lightningdance]

I hear nothing about the disaster that is facing Labor come Sept. The silence is deafening regarding today's Nielsen poll

All one ever hears on here is how bad the Murdoch media is & now how bad ALL media is, how it's all the media's fault for the abysmal predicament Labor has foisted on itself.

Nothing about how  it is now & how bad it's going to get for them every day in this election year.

All the ranting & hatred against the media, it's all the media's fault.

It's this type of thinking that will see the Labor party in opposition for years because they can't see past the next focus group or 24hr news cycle.

I wonder what "Announcement" we'll get today? they already threw the Very fast rail out on the weekend to screams of laughter & howls of derision.

[not_an_eloi]

a beat-up, delivered on sky news.

proof that it ever 'appened,  op

uh, no, i didn't think so    B-)

[poddster]

Perhaps Simon was refering to JOOLYA!!'s tinea, caused by having foot in mouth constantly

[freddie*rooster]

Doesn't change my opinion of her, she's a very smart astute well educated lady.  I admire her strength of character, her public speaking ability, and above all she scares the living daylights out of the nancy boys in the LNP :^O and that's why they are falling over each other to get to the Murdoch boy's to continue running this never ending scare campain.

[lightningdance]

Even her tame journalists are turning against her & the SMH today finally came out with 2 articles that tell it like it is

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Her phoney class war, gender war, the politics of division & celebrity, her pandering to the unions, her lying has led her party into the death zone.

Keating & Hawke both said that this type of politics is old  & shouldn't be practiced in 2013 after they spent so much time getting rid of it.

Tin ear?? worse than that, much worse & getting more worse every day. It's her that has brought the Party down, not media or anything else, her & the faceless men & the psychotic Rudd.

They will be remembered as the worst government in Australias history, even putting the failed Whitlam govt in a better light if that's possible.

Whitlam & Labor were ousted by a landslide & this landslide is coming again, for Labor.

[pct001wine]

Gillard .... blah blah blah ....phoney ..... blah blah blah

gender war ..... blah blah blah ..... worst government ..... blah blah blah

blah blah blah ..... psychotic ..... blah blah blah

Talk about a broken record, it was rubbish the first time, and it's still rubbish.  You should get some new material.