thanks for the post pints - which reminded watso about bob ellis - someone that the lefties would love to read - and this is what he says about the labor team.
"Labor has sixteen people currently in federal parliament who could be Prime Minister. They are Carr, Clare, Combet, Crean, Dreyfus, Faulkner, Kelly, Macklin, Plibersek, Roxon, Shorten, Burke, Bowen, Bradbury, Rudd and Gillard. Of these, only Rudd has been incompetent. And it is thought he should be made Prime Minister, again, and he is the only possible candidate."
from the above, it is obvious that bob ellis does not like rudd - and his latest writing confirms this - from
So .. Rudd takes over on June 20, three years to the day from his removal, and, with ninety days to the election, he …
Well, he sacks Swan, puts in Bowen, replaces Shorten with Joel Fitzgibbon, gives Gillard Foreign Affairs, offers Carr the Arts and is refused, leaves Plibersek, Garrett, Combet, Dreyfus and Bradbury where they are, splits Infrastructure and gives some to Doug Cameron, some to Crean, puts Ferguson back in his old job for a few weeks, sacks Wong and gives her job to Husik, makes Albo Deputy Leader and …
.. with Swan, Wong, Carr and Shorten on the back bench, goes to the country as the new fount of Unity.
Sounds like a whole heap of sense, doesn’t it. Yet this is what the media have been touting for two years now as the answer to Labor’s problems.
On the day of his re-acclamation, Labor will surge to 52 percent. On Carr’s resignation, it will drop back to 50. On Shorten’s and Swan’s and Wong’s removal, it will fall to 47.
And then the campaign will begin.
Rudd’s petulant, uppish procrastination and organisational chaos will be remembered. His bad language will be replayed. The fury of Swan and Crean will be replayed.
Labor’s vote will drop to 44. On election day it will be 42, its worst result since 1931.
And this is the answer, is it. To put in a Prime Minister famed for his incompetence and his whiteanting, leaking and disloyalty, and for blowing Labor’s biggest chance in thirty years, and ‘save the furniture’ that way.
What a great plan that is.
I ask the loathesome Bramston to justify it, in these columns.
