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Oz Labor Party -- too little too late
by ocker Sunday, Jun 9 2013, 9:09am
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Juliar Gillard is indisputably the most politically insular and toxic PM Oz has ever known and it seems the Labor Caucus has finally confronted that Reality and is withdrawing their support for nationally REVILED leader, JuLIAR 'carbon tax,' 5 US bases,' Corporate cocksucker' Gillard! However, brain-dead Federal Labor should have acted after successive State election slaughters and realised that Gillard was responsible for the unprecedented backlash -- I mean where does she get off LYING blatantly to the population and then stabbing them in the back in exactly the same way she stabbed Rudd in the back. Well, it may be acceptable within party ranks to misrepresent, LIE and politically assassinate standing prime ministers BUT not so trying that same tactic on an unforgiving public.

However, the reason Gillard's Labor is nationally reviled is because it ABANDONED its traditional political worker support base and core worker values; who did Labor's right imagine was going to vote for them when conservatives go to great lengths to maintain their solid support base?

The other major cause of downfall is of course Labor's inability to get anything positive done, remember Rudd's infamous remark, "when we gain office we won't have to do anything" -- meaning that UNREPRESENTATIVE Corporate and Banker elites would be running the country!

Labor sure lived up to Rudd's remark -- the carbon tax only burdens an already burdened public, makes Bankers richer but does nothing to mitigate global warming.

The NBN rollout has been plagued by costs blowout and mismanagement (known asbestos problem) as has every other major project the spendthrift INCOMPETENT party has undertaken. Border issues are not the primary reason for Labor's impending defeat as some would like to believe -- everything Labor failed to do, like adequately tax mega-corporations, and everything they did badly, sealed their fate and now they imagine changing leaders at the twelfth hour would make the difference -- in your insular dreams Labor!

I would add that Gillard licking American arse in Washington is another reason the people turned against Labor; Labor, unlike the conservatives, was once the nationalist party of Oz. Gillard's gut-turning suck-arse speech will go down in infamy, notwithstanding her treasonous act of signing for an unprecedented FIVE full scale US military bases of occupation on our soil, which effectively makes Oz a PRIMARY nuclear target in the event of American precipitated conflict.

The list goes on but its hardly worth continuing -- to twist a popular Labor phrase, "well may we say God save the Queen, because NOTHING will save the Australian Labor Party!"

Media story follows:

Julia Gillard loses significant support among Labor caucus

The ABC understands Prime Minister Julia Gillard has lost significant support in the Labor caucus.

It comes after a week in which Labor disunity was on full display in Canberra and former prime minister Kevin Rudd re-emerged very publicly.

ABC Insiders presenter Barrie Cassidy says Mr Rudd is the only figure being considered as an alternative prime minister.

Mr Cassidy spoke about the tensions within the party on Insiders yesterday.

"I am now very strongly of the view that Julia Gillard will not lead Labor into the next election," he said.

"I think there will be a change either by her own hand or the actions of others. And I'm not relying entirely on guesswork here."

, Mr Cassidy says key Labor players are now planning when and how Ms Gillard should be approached to step aside.

"Those who have changed their thinking are convinced that in any case, she must be close to deciding for herself that continuing on through a torrid and hopeless 10-week campaign is intolerable," he wrote.

A spokesman for Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten, who is a key figure in Labor's Victorian right faction, says he supports the Prime Minister and that has not changed.

This week Mr Rudd hit the hustings in Victoria to help campaign for the re-election of Labor MPs.

He insisted he did not "see any circumstances" that would elevate him back to the Labor leadership.

He also pledged to support Ms Gillard and praised her "very strong leadership in very difficult circumstances for the Australian Labor Party."

The week of turmoil for Labor began with disastrous polling showing the party could be left with as few as 40 seats in the Federal Parliament.

Throughout the week a number of Labor MPs ridiculed the party's chances of winning the September 14 election, with one backbench MP comparing Labor to the Titanic.

"It's like the Titanic - we're in the final scenes. Third class has realised the doors are locked and they're not getting out and first class are running around looking for a dress to put on," the MP, a key supporter of Mr Rudd, told ABC News Online.

It was also revealed .

On Thursday night where he dismissed any suggestion that he was partly to blame for Labor's disastrous polling.

The latest Newspoll results suggest Mr Rudd would be the only Labor MP to retain a seat in Queensland.

On Wednesday long-time Labor MP Laurie Ferguson, who maintains he is a "strong supporter" of the Prime Minister, said Labor was "dead" in critical seats in Western Sydney if Ms Gillard did not engage the electorate on the asylum seeker issue.

Labor going through five stages of grief, Xenophon says

Speaking to Insiders, independent Senator Nick Xenophon says a number of Labor members he regards as friends are "simply despondent".

"It's almost, you know, there are the five stages of grief: denial, bargaining, anger, depression and acceptance," he said.

"I think there's going to be a sixth stage that will be written after this election."

Senator Xenophon says he doubts Mr Rudd would be able to change Labor's electoral fortunes if he was elevated to the leadership.

"Some MP said to me if Kevin Rudd came in months ago that he would save a bit of the furniture," he said.

"A few months ago he would have saved the leather lounge suite, right now, I am not sure he would save much more than the beanbags."

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