I'm going to forget, for a moment that 24 hours ago you were proclaiming your loyalty to the PM and dismissing any rumblings of a leadership challenge. Until of course, you got a sniff of the numbers and realised you were in with a shot. Let's pretend, shall we that that doesn't seem at all callous and opportunistic.
I'm going to pretend not to notice that if we do, in fact, find ourselves with our first Female Prime Minister today, it will have happened in the most underhanded, treacherous of ways - one that may haunt you for the rest of your political career. Mud sticks, I'm told. You've proven you can play the game with the big boys, cut throat and backstabbing as the best of them. Yay you.
Forget that this could destabilise Labor enough to leave the country with Tony Freaking Abbott.
No. Forget all of that. Do you want to know what really ticks me off?
Why, for the love of all things holy, did this all have to happen at 10pm? Why did you leave us fixed to our television screens, channel surfing in a desperate bid to work out what in the hell was happening. I didn't get to bed until 1.30am.
Did you not know that the rest of the country had a soccer match to get up for?
My goodness, you're lucky there are no soccer fans in the vote this morning.
Just sayin..
I don't understand your politics, truly.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she has betrayed the female race...If anything she has given young women hope that they to can play the game in a male dominated world.
ReplyDeleteK.Rudd was becoming ineffectual, he wouldn't have won against one half of the Abbott and Costello act...but with J.Gillard we have a chance to do some amazing and radical things in politics instead of just playing it safe!
It was just a joke, JV. I'm buggered - I was so wired watching it all last night, then getting up early this morning.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree.
ReplyDeleteI always hoped that when we got our first female prime minister, they would be voted in, fair and square, by the people.
The trouble is JV - she is now the puppet - her masters are behind the scenes. So let's see how amazing she will be. ALP now has a whipping boy in KRudd so they can blame him when she backflips at their command on the things the public didn't like. I don't think she deserves to be Australia's first female PM. She was not voted in so it is by default. It is not like KRudd died, she was part of the game play. It all leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. Oh and by the way I don't particular like KRudd, I think he is a pompous ass, but still this was just wrong.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Kakka. Except that I don't think K
ReplyDeleterudd is a pompous ass, I think he's a genuinely nice guy. Maybe too nice for politics.