Kev confirms the "Gang of four"

[IQSRLOW]

Australia- run by four fucking dickheads

KERRY O'BRIEN: There's been a lot of criticism of the way you have centralised power within the Government. That since the global financial crisis cabinet has become not much more than a rubber stamp, the big issues decided by the so called gang of four, yourself, Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan and Lindsay Tanner and, for instance, on the resources tax your Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson, a skilled negotiator who knew all ins and outs of the industry, was very much on the periphery as this policy was put together. Have you now re-embraced a wider cabinet consultation process?

KEVIN RUDD: Well, you know something, Kerry, I just think the proposition is wrong. Blah blah blah....no answer

KERRY O'BRIEN: And when you, and did Penny Wong bring a submission to Cabinet to alter the timing and schedule and walk away in the next two years from the emissions trading scheme or was that decided by you, Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan and Lindsay Tanner?

KEVIN RUDD: On the question of the internal deliberations of the Cabinet, these are always done through cabinet or the Cabinet Committee structures, including on the matter that you just referred to.

KERRY O'BRIEN: Was that decided within that committee group of four?

KEVIN RUDD: That, I won't go to the internal Cabinet decision making processes and individual decisions. You know that as well as I do.

[boxy]

Your definition of "confirms" must be an... umm... interesting one

[IQSRLOW]

Programmatic specificity confirms the thesis within the realms of the confines of the terms of reference

[sprintcyclist]

iqsrlow- you may think you speak ruddtalk, but i can understand you !!!!!!!!!!

the real ruddspeak is incomprehensible