Can anyone tell me why people now hate Kevin Rudd?

Posted by: Smee

21st Jul 2010 07:41pm

Yes, he reminds me of Tim Brooke-Taylor (google if you don't know who I'm talking about).
Yes the "fair shake of the sauce bottle" thing was incredibly try-hard.
But, wasn't he the head of a whole entire party? Didn't they & even the opposition have to reach some sort of accord to enact legislation? Didn't Australia manage to miss the worst of the Global Financial Crisis? Did he personally screw up the insulation? I'm pretty sure that one was a group effort.
I just don't get why people think changing the person at the top of the pile will change the entire party's policies or the whole country somehow.

CAT17

22nd Aug 2012 12:02am

Hi goergie, thanks for your comment - I can tell you after watching the incompetence of most of the ministers and polies of this government I am sure I could do a better job and if I were 30 years younger I would go for it. Why is it that the wrong people seem to go for politics? Some of the MPs of some areas must shrink with horror at the way the person they voted for is nothing more than a puppet when they get to Canberra and the 'boss' hands out the questions that will only be the ones asked in the House. If you watch the way they read out the question they just don't seem to have any real conviction in what they are asking. It is a clever play for the government to restrict the chance for the Opposition to ask questions by having questions asked by their own side which take up nearly all the question time. Oh I wish I had taken more notice of what really goes on in political parties when I was young I would dearly loved to have stood for election as a MP. I lived in Canberra at the time and there was a possibility that it could have happened but I did not pursue it (too busy being a mum and teacher?)

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