Bloke mate will do I have no comrades.
Fear? I fear the greens have targeted the less well informed from my party as both fuel for a party totally unlike it is sold bysuch as you.
Let us pretend there is no Belly, never was.
Test my charges on the living truths.
Is your party unloved to the degree charged?
Did your party both play a roll in Labors defeat and see a substantial drop in votes?
Can you with honesty ever deliver your party,s promises without black mailing the majors.
The non-existent Belly rests his case confident Australia thinks much the same.
A PS during the workchoices campaign a packed crowd heard a trades hall head, proudly Communist, call them Comrades.
I for two weeks went from lunch shed to lunch shed explaining to members ready to leave the union, after being called that, we do not support words so dirtied by past lunatic fringe elements.
And by worker enslavers the Communist movement

Belly, what is wrong with the word "COMRADE" your favourite Scotsman, and I don't mean Ronald McDonald, uses it all the time...Dougie Cameron. Dougie is alright in my book, what about yours? If you ever run into Comrade Doug, he'll greet you with a big "Ciamar a tha sibh, comrade Belly" loosely translated, is Gaelic for Hallo Belly. And Dougie is a Labor Laddie.

Paul, old mate we must together face a reality.
I am well aware my view of reality is not loved by every one and too, SOME within Unions actively dislike me for what I think is truth.
I having grown to respect many of my union officials, but knowing in those early days, as Delegate my members did not share that view.
For the same reasons many lie on the Monday after an election *saying I never voted for them*
We must confront in even the very best of union Delegates and members that word is tainted.
After I am long dead two truths will live on well past my time.
Workers do not want, in huge and over ridding numbers, a bar to do with communism, or the word comrade.
Too as I face my second ALP meeting after our crushing defeat, my view that the word SOLIDARITY is used not to unite us for our fight but to cover wrongs it is VITAL we confront.
I understand we must present a united front, think we are in for far better times, but watch as I insist on more reform more say for members less for caucus.
Watch as I demand never again!
And see me charged with being against the party I live for.
No comrades but Paul plenty of mates, what better word than that to describe Australia,s only reformist party?
Already in a conversation about a wrong in my mob I was stomped on by a female who refused to answer was fixing the subject more worth while than hiding it, never give in mate in the end honesty matters.