"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, February 27, 2012
So, what does this mean for Australia?
Prime Minister Julia Gillard fended off Kevin Rudd in a Labor Party leadership ballot.
Question for my Australian readers: is this outcome good, bad or indifferent?
Gillard will definitely be voted out next election. Then Rudd will most likely become Opposition Leader, working his way back to PM. We have not seen the last of him, chances are we will be stuck with his face on the news for decades. Kind of like The Force, he learns from his mistakes and comes back more powerful than before. He wants to rule the world like evil Stewie.
But yes in the short term it's good for Tony Abbott.
Largely indifferent - either one will lead Labor to crushing defeat at the next election, particularly as the last couple of weeks have featured oodles of frank views by Labor people about their colleagues which I'm sure will feature in campaign ads - eg 'this is what the Minister for X thinks about the PM.'
Both are disasterous policy wise but Julia by all accounts is quite a decent human being while Rudd is quite simply appalling so the better person won.
So is the next election in November, same as ours?
I gotta know so I can know when it's safe to buy a house, when do the heads of the five families go down? Obama, Gillard, Chavez, Ahmadamama, Putin. Forget China, they don't matter, they'll follow.
Put England with Pakistan, and put Pakistan with the Irish gangs, violent little shits, Luca Brasi can take care of them.
The week of infighting was good - the government didn't do much wrecking, which was a relief. I'd prefer it if they spent all their time stabbing each other and next to no time implementing "reforms" and massive spending programs.
It's good for us and Tony Abbott
ReplyDeleteGo Tone!!
Gillard is just boring. Rudd is boring AND malicious. So I suppose we've got the better deal for the time being.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I say indifferent.
ReplyDeleteGillard will definitely be voted out next election. Then Rudd will most likely become Opposition Leader, working his way back to PM. We have not seen the last of him, chances are we will be stuck with his face on the news for decades. Kind of like The Force, he learns from his mistakes and comes back more powerful than before. He wants to rule the world like evil Stewie.
But yes in the short term it's good for Tony Abbott.
Largely indifferent - either one will lead Labor to crushing defeat at the next election, particularly as the last couple of weeks have featured oodles of frank views by Labor people about their colleagues which I'm sure will feature in campaign ads - eg 'this is what the Minister for X thinks about the PM.'
ReplyDeleteBoth are disasterous policy wise but Julia by all accounts is quite a decent human being while Rudd is quite simply appalling so the better person won.
So is the next election in November, same as ours?
ReplyDeleteI gotta know so I can know when it's safe to buy a house, when do the heads of the five families go down? Obama, Gillard, Chavez, Ahmadamama, Putin. Forget China, they don't matter, they'll follow.
Put England with Pakistan, and put Pakistan with the Irish gangs, violent little shits, Luca Brasi can take care of them.
The week of infighting was good - the government didn't do much wrecking, which was a relief. I'd prefer it if they spent all their time stabbing each other and next to no time implementing "reforms" and massive spending programs.
ReplyDeleteso - No Thunderdome, then?
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