Parlous Political Representation

I love it the way this "laborious" mob wilt under the media pressure. Howard copped it unrelentingly every day for 11 years as PM. (Before that, virtually for the whole of his political life, the numbats reviled him- utterly unsuccessfully). He was never rude, he answered all their questions. By being decent and manly, he must have brilliantly goaded the miserable bastards. I hope they vomited into their breakfast cereal.

For all of Keatings' boverboy tactics, he respected the parliamentary process, When he introduced legislation, there was the standard Explanatory Memorandum and the the 1st and 2nd reading speeches and lively proper debate in both houses. Rudd, as President of the Australian ratbag republic, didn't bother with all these nuisance Westminster democratic niceties, bugger that - he was the boss!!! (This is the issue the public doesn't understand and his colleagues bear the scars from his demonic rudeness and gigantic ego.)

One of the few of the then Labor mob that I respected, Lindsay Tanner, who should have been Treasurer, resigned in utter disgust with Labor's descent into hades, prior to the Gillard election. What a massive victory she had - the power of 1 independent. Have a look at the independents, I wouldn't give any of them a job of trust, such as running a broomcloset