Gee, isn't everyone getting sick of the media story that the Gillard leadership crisis is coming to a head, um, any day now. The current countdown really got a kick along by Barrie Cassidy on Insiders the Sunday before last, and given that he is said to be close to the PM's partner Tim (well, they have often been seen at the footy together, I think the story goes,) I thought it might even have been some sort of authorised leak from the Lodge about Gillard re-considering her position. This private theory of mine obviously had nothing to it, though.
Of course, the media is not entirely to blame: but it is for continually repeating the musings of the line up of Labor politicians who want to have a cry on their shoulder about how Kevin is their only hope.
We also have left leaning academics to blame - John Quiggin, who has agitated for a Rudd return for a long time, and even the normally sensible Ken Parish is now advocating a completely cynical switch based on the theory that Rudd wouldn't win the House of Reps anyway, but would keep the Senate out of Coalition control, even though he really is a "treacherous turd" (Ken's own words) .
I haven't seen the evening news on TV lately, but I've caught a bit of Question Time during the day, and Gillard has performed well. She does not look like a leader who deserves to lose her position at all.
If only people of the Left would stop talking about the need for her to go, so that everything that happens in Federal politics is not being seen purely through that prism. (Of course, this advice should have been followed for the last 2 years, as well.)
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