Newspoll hands Gillard more bad news

[Aussie]

Go fetch

Thought so.

[IQS.RLOW]

Did you miss today's poll?

Not to worry...there'll be another shocker for your bunch of fuckwits along soon

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Gotta laugh Tanya Plibersek on Q&A doing the noddy behind a scientist... as if she really understood anything he was saying.

Hey Tanya, how're the man induced floods on the central coast going? dribbler!

[IQS.RLOW]

I hate that druggie loving bitch.

She's probably helping her husband shift eccys and smack through the ALap judging by their performance

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Something has to give - sooner or later
February 19, 2013
Lenore Taylor
Chief Political Correspondent (and Labor Supporter) for The Sydney Morning Herald

Julia Gillard has three weeks to try to regain control of the political agenda as previously strong supporters contemplate the desperate threat to both the Labor Party and the union movement posed by Labor's dire standing in the polls.

The latest Nielsen poll - confirming a potentially devastating election-year shift against the government and the Prime Minister - and the already-set election date mean MPs are no longer prepared to hang on and hope for a political recovery.

The next two-week sitting period, starting March 12, is crucial because it is the last before the May 14 budget, which will lock in Labor's strategy for the election.

Yesterday's result was so bad that only the Prime Minister herself held to the pro forma lines about not commenting on every twist and turn in the opinion polls. Blah blah blah...

Her ministers, including Greg Combet and former leader Simon Crean, acknowledged it was a shocker.

MPs who have not been Kevin Rudd supporters were openly speculating about the mechanism that could bring about a leadership change, including whether confirmation of a comprehensive collapse in caucus support could persuade the Prime Minister to stand down.

Even those still steadfastly opposed to change, including ministers, conceded ''something has to give'', both to end the ongoing leadership tensions and improve Labor's political strategy and ''messaging''. Pity they don't listen to the message the people have been giving them.

Some questioned the overt appeal to ''blue-collar workers'' and many appeared disconnected from the tight group in the Prime Minister's office that formulates strategy. The brainless trust...

The Nielsen poll cemented Labor MPs' frustration and despair at both the prospect that the party could lose 26 seats and the real possibility that if those wipeout numbers were replicated at the election Tony Abbott could gain control of the Senate with the support of right-wing minor parties.

That scenario means there would be no impediment to the Coalition undoing most of what Labor has done in the past five years. yea.....

And the existential threat of that extends to the union movement, which fears a reversal of Labor's industrial relations changes, now now now lenore stop the scaremongering changes to donations laws to break the funding link between Labor's political and industrial arms and possibly inquiries into union conduct in general and the ''AWU affair'' in particular.

It is impossible to predict what Labor will do. But no one thinks waiting and hoping is still a viable option. You do that Lenore... you do that. But hopefully Australians will stay the course and rub out this political stain of a government.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politi ... z2LIWhGf25" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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How dense does the ALP have to be to realize that the 'blue collar' workers they are trying to rope into a class warfare battle have moved onto being aspirational voters due to being higher paid than white collar workers...and they are higher paid not because of unions but inspite if them.

The only base they appeal to would seem to be retired failed businessmen, taxi drivers and dole bludgers.

[Neferti]

Did I read that the Greens are ALSO giving up on Labor? Admittedly I just read the first para.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-19/m ... nt/4527252

[Aussie]

Did I read that the Greens are ALSO giving up on Labor?

No, you didn't.

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Christine Milne is disgusted at the ALP.
She thinks they have broken their agreement with them.

But red-ragger that she is she just can't bring herself to say anything good about Tony Abbott or the Coalition... once more proving Gillard didn't have to break her word to the Australian people to obtain government. The Greens will never side with the Right.

[IQS.RLOW]

It's like one fat disgusting old whore having a bitch fight with another fat disgusting old whore and telling everyone that they will never do another threesome together again, despite no one ever buying them but still living under the same brothel roof