Stuck With A Dud.

[icyfroth]

Labor would do well to remember just now the old adage "he who laughs last laughs longest".

There's no doubt the Abbott government has had an absolutely shocking run up to Christmas and start to the new year. One can hardly imagine worse.

Nonetheless, one of the endlessly fascinating aspects of politics is the certainty that the scenario today will not be there for very long.

Remember Kevin Rudd as Mr Popular from 2007 until early 2010 who became "hasta la vista babe" in June that year?

Remember a jubilant Julia Gillard at that time, then deposed only a few years later? Oh, don't forget the re-emergent, smirking Rudd. For those with a longer memory, go back to 1997, otherwise known as John Howard's "annus horribilis".

Labor's photo bombing of last Monday's Liberal Party leadership spill meeting was admittedly a bit of fun, but essentially pretty childish.

Shorten, the would-be alternative PM, having a few girly giggles does not a policy make.

He was joined by Tanya Plibersek and Penny Wong, who can get away with girly giggles because they are girls and both known as substantive policy thinkers.

Shorten doesn't have either advantage. Is that the best he can do?

I think Labor chose the wrong guy as leader – a photo opportunist, not a policy man. Ordinarily you might not think that a problem because they could change leaders.

But sadly for Labor, Rudd was so enraged when his party turfed him out the first time that he convinced them to change the rules and make it extraordinarily difficult to oust a leader.

So with Labor, if you get a dud you are stuck with them. Their party room has effectively been neutered on leadership.

Entire Article Here

And they know it.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Amanda Vanstone is the author of that article,so no surprises there.What she doesn't mention is that once your popularity's gone south,it's extremely hard to turn it around.Just ask Campbell Newman.
Of course it's business as usual for Tony.The submarine fiasco of recent days confirms it.

[myoclon1cjerk]

" But sadly for Labor, Rudd was so enraged when his party turfed him out the first time that he convinced them to change the rules and make it extraordinarily difficult to oust a leader."

So is Amanda saying "Prepare yourself for a change of leader" re the government?

[idlewhile]

Good article icy. As usual the incisive and highly intellignt Vanstone cuts right to the core of conversations being held all over Australia about Shorten and his short policy span and political opportunistic rants.

As for Wong and Plibbersek? they invented political opportunism and play it out every time a subject they can wring to the bone comes up.

Pliberrsek even managed to insert herself into the imminent executions of 2 Australians, there's no depth of shame she won't plumb, no opportunity she won't garner to herself.

The only reason her OH managed to drag himself up from the drug dealing gutter he wallowed in was through the ever helping hand of Plibbersek and the labor party.

So the Labor party are stuck with the social, climbing Shorten and they can't get rid of any leader that is a total failure eg: Rudd and Gillard, Bill is just another Albatross for Labor?

[idlewhile]

Labor values went out the window when they hid the lunacy of Rudd from the Australian public, then we got the spectacle of naked ambition from Gillard to take him out, then we were served up the lunacy of Rudd again.

Then we got  the machine man. the faceless man, the man who did the regicide act  which disposed of them both, to then ensconce himself on the throne.

This ongoing horror show would make Machiavelli envious.

[dellynt]

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@idlewhile wrote:

Labor values went out the window when they hid the lunacy of Rudd from the Australian public, then we got the spectacle of naked ambition from Gillard to take him out, then we were served up the lunacy of Rudd again.

Then we got  the machine man. the faceless man, the man who did the regicide act  which disposed of them both, to then ensconce himself on the throne.

This ongoing horror show would make Machiavelli envious.

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I agree.....