A new ALP or is it?
NEW Labor leader Kevin Rudd today told voters to give his office a call and share their ideas on how his party should develop policies that offer a clear alternative to the Howard Government.
Do you mean to say he has got this far and doesn’t have a clear set of policies?
I’m not a Rudd fan for the same reason I don’t like my wife when she nags excessively nor my old teachers when they ticked me off too much. I have only heard him harp about Howards policies; never about his own vision for the future and I definitely don’t like the handbag on his left arm; Gillard.
She holds Jim Cairns dear and quotes him in a speech she gave to Melbourne High School students as she extolls the virtues of peace activism, supporting the Soviets and anarchy.
Rudd may not be a loose cannon like Latham but the ropes holding him down are frayed and the ship’s sailing though a heavy swell. With Gillard as navigator there will too much of a risk that the party will keep on veering to port and I for one wouldn’t like Australia going down that road again.
A softer shade of Cairns as Whitlam’s deputy and what has Rudd promised in return for the support of the left?
I liked Beazley and he definitely has my commisserations for the very bad day he had. I also think there is a smattering of talent in the ALP but it remains to be seen whether Rudd will be able to pick and choose his own front bench nothwithstanding his demand for that very right.
Mr Rudd, who had an emphatic victory in yesterday’s caucus ballot, is now under pressure to promote backers into senior front bench roles.
Of course he is.
The ALP are in a better position than they were when they opted for the lunatic Latham to lead but I don’t think it’s enough for a ground swell against Howard.
The ALP can attack IR laws all they like but untill they come up with a better policy that includes a guarantee of keeping unemployment down it won’t wash with the electorate. The AWB Cole Commission was a fizzer for those hoping it would bring down Howard and yet that’s all I’m hearing – nag, nag, nag!
Time will tell if new leadership will mean much but I’m betting it won’t be enough to cross the divide.
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Thanks for the link to the Gillard speech outlining her love for Jim Cairns. That really defines her position in the political spectrum, and I will be recalling that in the months to come, particularly when (or if) she makes any statements about our involvement in Afghanistan or Iraq. Once a commo. . . .
Jim Cairns was a closet communist, and should have been tried for treason in my book.
Needless to say, I was less than distressed when the mongrel dropped off the twig.
I’d like to read the grossly disloyal bint’s speech but I get a password page when I try to follow Kev’s link. Anyone got a `live link’?
I need authorisation to access the transcript of her speech. This may be because it’s a party political site, and I’m trying to access it from work. I’ll try again tonight from home.
I see this as business as usual. Gillard could bring some fresh views to a party that just seems stagnant, and past its use-by-date. That is, if they give her a voice. At the moment, she does appear to be a “handbag”.
And yeah… commiserations to Beazley. You’d have to be a man with a heart of stone not to be moved by the last speech he made.
Kev, do you have a mirror of that speech by Gillard? I’d love to have a read of it, and it seems to have been protected by a password now… hmm…
PQ, it’s not the sixties anymore. Slinging around “Commie” in an argument just makes you look like a dinosaur or some other kind of anachronism.
Socialist then!
But even for those few with the best intent it always ends up Stalinist Communism.