I think it was Kim Beazley Snr. who suggested that the Labor Party was once full of cream from the working class, but now it was full of the dregs from the middle class. How true. Once you look past Kevin Rudd and two or three others (Lindsay Tanner, Craig Emerson and Tony Burke for example) you hit a brick wall. Let me see, Jenny George, Simon Crean, George Campbell, Martin Ferguson (not forgetting Laurie of course ), Kim Carr, Jenny Macklin, need I go on?
I've said it before but it obviously needs repeating, the Labor party does and has not represented main stream Australia for some time. The Parliamentary party consists of union hacks, left leaning socialist trendy academics and Labor party appointees. That's about it.
And who are two of their new so-called star recruits ? Greg Combet and Bill Shorten. Another two hacks from the unions.
And yet here on this thread we've got dipsticks like Boiler suggesting you vote Labor. What a goose! If anyone here needs their IQ recalibrated, I think I've found him (or possibly her).
Their climate change and IR policies are plainly unsustainable. If anyone has looked at the detail of the IR policy in particular, or what they've released of it, it becomes apparrent very quickly that it's the same old Labor party well and truly rooted back in the 1950's and 1960's.
Greg Combet knew about the IR policy, but not the shadow front bench. Nor did Rod eddington or for that matter, Kevin Rudd himself. It was aurthored by Gillard (who is now showing her true colors) and the ACTU.
And just something quickly on their education policy. The ALP wants to introduce trade subjects into High Schools. Remember the tech shools from the sixties and seventies and what happened to them ? They were got rid of by the state Labor government's because they thought it was elitist to discriminate between those who went to the tech schools and those who went to the High schools. And who has been responsible for the apalling dumbing down of the state based education systems ? Those same state Labor governments. Just look at the mess in Victoria and WA if you would like to see examples of just how pathetic the situation has become. Rudds education revolution ? No. He's just rebuilding and replacing what Labor had already ripped apart and torn down.
AWA's ? They don't even rate. There are much more important things to be worried about than AWA's if Labor wins the election.
You've got a few bright sparks but the rest of the party went out long ago. There's simply no depth to the party. As Keating said, all tip and no iceberg.