LOL A whole flurry of posts and all avoiding the serious issue of Labor branch stacking, "Quick, post something, Kevin Rudd's spin isn't working to cover the scandalous and systemic problems that inflict the Labor party machine.

Branch Stacking
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5883&page=58
[Wednesday, 17 July 2013 11:59:02 AM]

<People outside Labor find it hard to conceive, but legitimate branch members are held in contempt by the factions. Unlike MPs, their staff, and union officials, they are not ''players''.

They hold normal jobs in the real world, but their life experience and self-sufficiency counts against them. They aren't trusted because they don't have skin in the game.

Veteran reform advocate and senator John Faulkner condemns this perverse calculus, saying ''grassroots members are an afterthought and for many in the machine, an inconvenience''.

For power brokers, branch members are like speed humps on a country road – they don't influence the vehicle's direction, they simply make the journey irritating.>

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/labors-ethnic-branchstacking-cancer-20130304-2fgmw.html

Dear Poirot,

Wow! hanks for that link.
What an eye-opener.

Nick Minchin has a lot to answer for.
Ah, politics - dirty business that's for sure.

Dear Poirot,

I'm now beginning to understand why some
conservative people get bitter and vicious.
It's all a way to explain their
frustrations.
And now the panic's really starting to set
in. They just may lose the next election.
Watch Mr Abbott's meltdown if that happens.

Lexi,

You're right.

The LNP losing this coming election was almost unthinkable a short time ago.

It seemed that a person of the limited calibre of Tony Abbott was just going to glide into the top job coasting on the electorate's disaffection with Gillard and her government.

All of a sudden the LNP are having to sell themselves and, dear-oh-dear, Tony is having to articulate on matters of policy.

Well, we've seen what's happened in the wake of that exigency. Poor only Tone is barely up to the job...and Julie Bishop has to keep taking a Bex and having a lie down (she's a tad excitable)

I haven't enjoyed politics so much in a long time : )

Dear Poirot,

I watched Tony Abbott on TV being interviewed
with his wife standing next to him - and
when asked a few tough questions he simply walked
away. Not a good image at this stage prior to
an election. It seems that Abbott just can't
handle the tougher questions on policies.

LOL, Another flurry of posts to bury the foul stcnch of Labor branch stacking.

Rudd is 'tied in knots' about branch stacking the papers say.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/rudd-tied-in-knots-as-branch-stacking-scandal-escalates/story-fni0cx12-1226680415604

Hard Labor for showboat Rudd.