"Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

Gillard is clearly in trouble and there appears to be no room for her to chart a future for Labor. Will Rudd the albatross take over the leaking ship? I very much doubt this will occur. A snap election seems imminent. But who will be the leader

Rainier, what a terribly depressing thought….that Rudd could yet become Labor leader and PM again!

Hey, what about Bob Carr?

Oh come on Ludwig old mate, don't get desperate.

Poor old NSW is still trying to recover from the damage she suffered with that blithering idiot in power. Please don't wish him on the whole country.

We would be better off with old CRuddy back, though not much, than that fool.

Haaaa haa haa haaaaa Hasbeeen.

I’m too pissed to respond sensibly so here’s my enieb…enebb…enebriated replly…

Bob didunt do anything bad to Newsouthwhales that other drongoes didunt do to other states just as badly!!

Or anything werse than his predecessors or postdecessors! His tenure was just the same old same old as the rest!

But he had the right ideas, whichwere rooted by the manic pro growth big bizzness stranglehold over guvment, as they always are, in evry state intha cvnt…er cuntry…d’er country!

He still has the right ideas! He’s a million times better than that Ruddiculous failure of a PM.

Get your head around it Haz. You hate Rudd and rightly so. But whoo’s gunna lead this nation out of the current woeful mess?? Who is there out there better then Carr?

To go again with Rudd would suggest that Labor has no logic, unless of course potential candidates would rather see him take Labor's certain demise at next election. Gillard or Rudd, Labor looks certain to be smashed.

Carr, doubt it. Shorten is ambitious but i don't think he offers much.

Perhaps Combet may be the one. Has few scars, besides his unfortaunte association with the dumbest of all policies (the carbon tax).

If Labor really wants to minimise its upcoming election disaster, ditch the carbon tax, accept the party will look stupid for a while, try to sell what Labor is good at, and pick a new leader.

What a glutton for punishment Mr Rudd would be. He has already been knocked out once by Abbott.Labours only hope is to drop the idiotic tax but to many puffed up egos who can't admit they are wrong. Even Keneally has shown more integrity than Gillard and Rudd.