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Few familiar with Rudd are shocked by his exit : Comments

By Scott Prasser, published 28/6/2010

The sudden fall from grace of Kevin Rudd and his inability through lack of support to contest the leadership are unprecedented in Australian politics.

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All I can say....ask..beg...plead..is..DON'T vote Labour.

Vote Coalition ? aargh... same bunch.. just a different banana not quite as ripe.

GREENS ? (quick.. take that medication and get urgent therapy)

FAMILY FIRST ? yep... go for it... family values... we all came from a family and most of us live as part of one... all legislation should be subject to a 'family impact' statement.

Hey..if loony watermelons at the Human REICH and EVIL Opportunism Central Committee can call for a 'Human Rights assesment' of all legislation.. why not a family impact assessment as well..or INSTEAD of.
Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Monday, 28 June 2010 8:12:24 PM
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This article is an accurate assessment. An electorate, driven by the leftist media, were too easily convinced the saviour had arrived. So they may be again a second time with Julia Gillard.

Labor is desperate to remain in power and is prepared to quickly ditch anyone who is unpopular while pretending they are not driven by Polls.

Bruce Hawker, Labor Party strategist, on Sky news today asked why the Libs had not dumped Abbott because he was not very popular. A frank admission that popularity is driving Labor Party appointments.

Gillard has an extreme Left agenda based on a political view derived from her father's experience of 1950's Wales and wants to apply this to 2010 Australia. She is basically a Marxist, like her hero Nye Bevan who wanted to nationalise the coal industry and, like all ideologues, rid the world completely of any conservative opposition. She is desperately out of touch, lives in a bygone era and worships a person whose beliefs would now be considered extreme. She wants to be remembered as a heroic leader who fought the good fight for the people against the evil conservative forces. Its all so 1950's.

Meanwhile, Rudd waits in the wings ready to pull the plug on Julia's party. I wonder how he'll do it?
Posted by Atman, Monday, 28 June 2010 10:28:49 PM
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Atman do you really believe that stuff.

Julia's experience of working class Wales is more likely to make her a good politician or would you prefer the experience of Alexander Downer born with the proverbial silver spoon. Neither background will necessarily determine competency or fairness - the future will tell.

Julia Gillard often speaks about the lack of opportunity for her father, by all accounts a smart man, to access education. Access to opportunity is a liberal philosophy as much as a left one. It is the essential ingredient to innovation.

"She wants to be remembered as a heroic leader who fought the good fight for the people against the evil conservative forces. Its all so 1950's."

The only one going on about that is people like you. What is more 1950s is the misplaced Left paranoia for what must be one of the most Right Wing/Centrist periods in ALP history.

Australian voters aren't interested in extremes of any dogma - and those spouting such extremes don't win elections. The LNP is just getting miffed because Abbott won't win against a competent adversary.
Posted by pelican, Monday, 28 June 2010 11:42:49 PM
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Pelican
Believe what "stuff"?

Gillard's story is about her father's struggle in another place in another time. What has that got to do with Australia in 2010?
She came here when she was 5 for gods sake. She's had a similar life to the rest of us.

She is a living example of why Australia is free from the biases she claims were in present in Wales in the 1950's.

You obviously believe in the "class struggle" otherwise you would not have alluded to Downer being born "with silver spoon" as a bad thing though you pretend strangely in the very next sentence that it is all irrelevant.

As I said she adores Nye Bevan. A 1950's Marxist. Her ideology is rooted in 1950's Welsh class struggle. Its irrelevant. Its her "stuff" not mine. She is out of touch.
Posted by Atman, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 9:29:55 PM
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Well, no body polled me to ask what I thought of Rudd, but I am glad to see him gone, sadly not buried as yet.

Good on those voetrs who were polled, whatever their motives, for lambasting Rudd.

Good riddance!

Unless your name is Phillip Adams of course, who has gone to sulk in his corner, alone, apart from Rudd and his missus.
Posted by The Blue Cross, Monday, 5 July 2010 11:21:48 AM
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