domingo, 22 de agosto de 2010
TEc - "Cliff hanging-on" It did backfire on Julia and Labour, so where does she and them go from here?
For Labour this has been a big shot in the foot no less.
The party squarely squandered the big win of only three years ago by a series of internal upsets capped by the treacherous unseating of Kevin Rudd, the very man who steered it to victory that recently.These things register with voters and are by no means underwhelming.
Even when the main opposition leader is not particularly appealing to large sections of the public.
A mid-term loss in popularity for incumbents is a normal occurrence in a democracy anywhere.While the reasons leading to it may be important on substance, the actual drop in voter's intentions as reflected in opinion polls is not. Not to the extent that a popularly elected acting PM is made to resign to be hurriedly replaced by whoever.If Labour now succeeds forming the next government with support from MPs holding the balance of power it will be considerably weaker in resolve and vulnerable in action.Until Australians undo this political imbroglio at the next general election.
The two major parties already started their courtship with that handful of Independents and Greens suddenly catapulted to the limelight of Federal politics.It may be a while before Canberra settles down but a hung Parliament while not unusual in democracies - least of all unmanageable - was totally uncalled for at this point in time in Australia.
What is quite clear now is Julia's gamble definitely did not pay off.
The party squarely squandered the big win of only three years ago by a series of internal upsets capped by the treacherous unseating of Kevin Rudd, the very man who steered it to victory that recently.These things register with voters and are by no means underwhelming.
Even when the main opposition leader is not particularly appealing to large sections of the public.
A mid-term loss in popularity for incumbents is a normal occurrence in a democracy anywhere.While the reasons leading to it may be important on substance, the actual drop in voter's intentions as reflected in opinion polls is not. Not to the extent that a popularly elected acting PM is made to resign to be hurriedly replaced by whoever.If Labour now succeeds forming the next government with support from MPs holding the balance of power it will be considerably weaker in resolve and vulnerable in action.Until Australians undo this political imbroglio at the next general election.
The two major parties already started their courtship with that handful of Independents and Greens suddenly catapulted to the limelight of Federal politics.It may be a while before Canberra settles down but a hung Parliament while not unusual in democracies - least of all unmanageable - was totally uncalled for at this point in time in Australia.
What is quite clear now is Julia's gamble definitely did not pay off.
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