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The erosion of checks and balances : Comments
By Tony Kevin, published 17/3/2006An alternative political analysis of John Howard's ten-year tenure.
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Last night on the TV news, Prime Minister John Howard, made a plea to the ALP to get it's act together. He quite rightly pointed out that Her Majesties Loyal Opposition has to make a case for change well before an election, and stick with it's own stated aims. It can not make policies on the run during an election, and then think that the electorate will take them seriousy. This must be the first time in English Parliamentary history when a Government leader has had to give political tips to his opponents.
In other words, Tony. It's the policies, stupid.
ALP apologists like Tony are utterly fixated upon personalities, not policies. The left wing press and the ABC treated Mark Latham as some sort of messiah, and they hung on his every word. It did not even occur to them that Mark Latham was looked upon by the electors as a particularly nasty piece of work. That Latham led the ALP into it's worst ever election loss should have given them a reality check. Nup. Now they are fawning all over Julia Gropeable as their new visionary leader who will lead them into the promised land.
Their personal attacks upon John Howard are looked upon as disgusting reputational rape by the electorate. This behaviour is indicative of a political party which has divorced itself so far from it's own traditional voters, that character assassination is all that they can manage. The ALP just will not face the fact that it's policies are on the nose with their own traditional voters.
Two thirds of Beazley's own electorate voted against the Republic. If this unpleasant fact can percololate down through Tony's impermeable skull, he might be capeable of figuring out why the ALP keeps losing elections.