Monday bloody Monday: Our Labor leadership form guide

RM says:

05:58am | 27/02/12

seriously inappropriate headline; okay story. bloody sunday was a tragic event, not to be made light of…

Dann Da Mann says:

06:21am | 27/02/12

If the mp’s vote gillard in as winner they ALL deserve to lose their seats.They know what the public wants her. Plus I believe you MP’s are actually afraid of Dictator gillard with het her henchment Comrade Conroy,Swan,Shorten and roxon. Stand up to Dictator Gillard and bobby brown. You know we do NOT trust,believe or listen to her a nd she appears to hold us peasants in contemp with her arrogance and ignorance. Plus she could hand out one thousand dollars to us and she still will not be voted in. Kevin rudd is the best of the terrible two.

Against the Man says:

06:47am | 27/02/12

Very funny and further documentation why the ALP is a joke!

Stephanie says:

06:55am | 27/02/12

We are so over the media circus and overload of this party leadership debacle.

martha balev says:

07:01am | 27/02/12

we no want that traitor lo lead our contry,if they no listener,they will kill thelabor party;they will lose Australian support,for ever.

Tony says:

07:12am | 27/02/12

Rudd needs to be a backbencher to garner supporters. The ForMin job would have some great perks, but it takes you away from the action and away from the family. Let’s give Gillard the benefit of the doubt that she could roll Abbott at the next election. At some pre-determined date prior to the next election, her own party will say, “Julia, the numbers just don’t stack up. You will not win”. If Rudd wins today, he’ll be thinking, “This is bloody fantastic”, but I suspect he knows he needs to be back amongst the backbenchers to prove (or to give the impression), that he is a really nice guy who should run the party. I think the interesting thing out of all of this is that Faulkner supports Rudd. Faulkner is the man who the caucus will turn to for direction if Gillard’s numbers don’t prove better than Abbott’s.

Right turn Clyde says:

07:30am | 27/02/12

Two incompetent and useless recycled PM’s, God help us.

meh says:

07:56am | 27/02/12

I dont get it.

They appear to be talking about two different people who share the names of some political figures, but the descriptions… I dont get it.

Andii says:

08:08am | 27/02/12

Let today be the day that wrongs are corrected and KRudd is back in the position that the people put him in!  Pollies, do what the people of Australia, your bosses, want, because if you do not, then come next election, it will be ta ta to you, Gillard can not win, you know it!

Darryn says:

08:09am | 27/02/12

beware of backbenchers scared of losing their snout in the trough they know that Juliar can’t deliver them a win so they must choose whether it be today or at a later date .Be sure that neither Rudderles Kev or Juliar will be at helm when we vote next a ticket of Smith/Crean looks likely

Jimmy says:

08:37am | 27/02/12

I think its telling that Australia has bet a whopping ~$640k on this leadership ballot, with half of that ($300k) coming from one bet.

Given that as a rule, betting levels track with interest levels, people genuinely dont appear to care either way.

While I recognise that theoretically we vote for a party, not a specific leader, we practically vote for a specific leader. As a voter I find it, if not genuinely then at least moderately, disturbing that there seems to be such a disregard for the People by the Politicians.

If I showed such disregard for the shareholders of the company I work for, I’d be infront of ASIC/whoever and serving some time in minimum security in short order. The same holds for someone working on an assemlbly line in a manufacturing plant.

Alex says:

08:39am | 27/02/12

If we look back the election in 2010 was won by the Coalition, they had the majority of the votes. The only reason Labor is even in power is because they made deals with the greens and independants.
We need to correct the initial wrong to make everything right. Sick and tired of hearing Julia say they won the election in 2010, what a load of self serving crap.
Labor is in shambles, they hate each other so much that internal fighting is the number one priority instead of running the nation. I am still trying to understand how the national polling shows their figures are up again, who are these people still wanting this idiotic party to run the nation?

TOLLOLOLOL says:

08:51am | 27/02/12

“Strength: Running the country”
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Origami Queen says:

09:07am | 27/02/12

If you’re going to call her Juliar then you have to call him Kevenge. At least spread the negativity evenly…......