VERY Prime Ministerial. VERY VERY Prime Ministerial. As (now) only a local member - this is extraordinary!!!
He's now outshining Julia! (whom he hasn't mentioned once!)
Taking no questions.
Now he goes onto the "shoot down Abbott" tack!
Yep - it's all anti-Abbott. How rotten and hopeless Abbott is. How could HE run the country (what, when you have ME???)
He's 13 minutes into it - and this is all hate/personal attack on Abbott and political statement.
A very filthy personal attack on Abbott!!
"I cannot stand idly by and be silent and see Mr. Abbott win by default!!"
"I cannot stand idly by and see him wreck blah blah blah!!"
(Didn't know a party winning by public democratic vote was "winning by default Kevin". Libs were polite enough not to say Julia is PM "by default," due to a bloody Party Room Coup.
This is NOT a Press Conference. It is a Prime Ministerial statement. It is NOT a local member's reflection. Perhaps he's job sharing with Julia now, her minders feeling she's not quite up to it after all.
He does NOT have the guts to take questions today. Typical of him! Just listen to me - and I'll demolish Abbott for her!!
He will NOT be campaigning in his own seat he's telling us. Oh, no - he'll be campaigning in Queensland - AND NSW!!! And NO mention of Julia - which is interesting.
God he's awful! Throw up stuff.
SO we have a Prime Minister who's NOT a Prime Minister! Acting like a Prime Minister. Campaigning like a Prime Minister. Perhaps we have TWO Prime Ministers, unbeknown to all of us!
The REAL Kevin Rudd - who still imagines, acts like, believes he is still, in fact, THE LEADER, by his old rejuvinated pomposity evident today.
Wonder whether in fact they have him lined up to take the top job back over again when/if Julia fails?
Very much sounds like the old, arrogant, self-spruiking Kevin Rudd.
Now this is real kick him in the guts stuff. What he has said today about Abbott could be defamatory, or close to it. And it is also Rudd taking over from Julia. This makes her look like an idiot. IS she THIS desperate - that she has to wheel HIM out?
How low can this crowd go?
This is bizarre. If it were the Libs behaving like this - the leftie media would be screaming for blood. There'd be headlines, news flashes, and O'Brien and Jones and Co would be in seventh heaven. As it is, they're awfully silent!
