Mr Opinion,welcome to the I'll informed club.

What you have to understand about Belly, is that he is never wrong, but I love him dearly.

What Belly fails to see, or a least admit, is that in order to replace a leader, you first must have a show of hands from those interested.

Need I say more.

It was Rudd and Gillard who stabbed Kim Beasely in the back.Kim was the only honest credible person they had.The chickens are roosting Belly.

Keep Gillard and let her shoulder the blame.
Mr Opinion,
Yeah, but that would let the other incompetents off the hook.

Belly first I agree with the other comment, you need someone willing to take on the job and at the moment its a very toxic chalice.

Maybe you should be asking why the Greens are backing Gillard. When they did the "Labor has walked away from our agreement" thing recently it was made clear that they would not vote in a way that would bring down the government while Julia was leader but if she was gone that agreement would go with her. Can't remember the specifics but from memory it was on votes of no-confidence and or blocking supply.

If Labor did swap leaders (assuming they could find someone willing to take on the job) the new leader may not be PM for very long at all.

R0bert

Robert & Belly,
Never mind the Labor pollies, what about the many, many families they have let down ? How about some compassion for them ? Stuff the pollies they have their million plus payouts & won't lose a minute's sleep over those whose lives they ruined.

So most Labor supporters won't vote for their party if Gillard is their leader but Liberal supporters will still vote for their party in spite of Abbott's unpopularity?

It makes no sense.

The media were largely behind the dumping of Rudd before the last election and now are campaigning to have him reinstated?

It also makes no sense.

They have been tipping some sort of coup almost every week since the last election.

It seems like a bogus campaign orchestrated by the media for their own ongoing benefit and the opposition to distract from the discussion of any real issues.