julia gillard – gone by next wednesday

from
The Northern Myth
Bob Gosford in the NT
Bob Gosford| Mar 15, 2013 4:41PM

"The Northern Myth has it from solid Labor sources that Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been tapped on the shoulder today and will leave office next Wednesday, March 20.

While the timing at first appears curious – why wait five days? – a quick glance at the Parliamentary sitting calendar shows that this would give her replacement – tipped to be Kevin Rudd – just one day of Parliament before the long break through to budget sittings in mid-May.

So Rudd would have one day to make his mark and appear on TV screens from question time, without facing weeks of parliamentary scrutiny and glee from the Coalition.

And there is an ironic twist in the tale.

When Kevin Rudd was rolled by Julia Gillard on 24 June 2010, she had a single day of uproarious glory in the Parliament before the long winter/spring break through to late August.

Social media has been ablaze this week with talk of a spill and of Gillard being tapped by a delegation of senior Labor figures, rumours that were until recently denied.

Gillard has been in an election-losing position in the opinion polls for some time and her decision to name the election day (September 14) precipitated a series of events which have not helped her attempt to hold onto power.

Her recent attack on alleged rorting of the 457 visa program has prompted some criticism from within Labor.

Many political experts think Labor powerbrokers would not force a spill on Gillard, so the only way the crown would pass to another is if she agrees to step down."

....to my way of thinking Gillard also is desperate to have the new fascist Conroy media-controlling Legislation passed in one week while federal Labor is still in governing mode apparently, not electioneering, rather than wait until late May or winter when even the most ardent Labor supporter would see through the lies Conroy puts forward as reasons for needing these totalitarian media controls.
Gillard cannot bear the thought of what the "hate-media" [all the media she hates} will write about her in election campaign period, especially regarding her AWU slush fund fraudster days when she was employed as a solicitor by Slater & Gordon.

I did notice a major change in tactics on HC politics yesterday by the likes of dust who instead of continuing his usual approach of getting dustier and dustier in his seemingly infallible and unfailing support for Gillard, has instead back-flipped [with a triple twist in the pike position] and in the process has converted himself into one of his own American "tea partiers" he almost always ACUSES other posters as being a "partier" of.
Yes dust has backed constitutionalist Rudd as the new PM!