The latest
from Canberra is that crucial polling taken before Ms Gillard and her
supporters couped Mr Rudd from his job showed that Mr Rudd's support was on the
rise.
More media
spin from the ALP to try to show that the prodigal son returning to the top job
will correct all things wrong, a last ditch attempt to convince voters to
return to support the ALP.
I see a
deeper malaise in all of this, the ALP is a party riven apart into two warring
factions by core differences. One side is the left, the unions, Gillard (The
Greens to a certain extent), a moribund breed of Marxists. The other side is the
right, realist, adaptable, Smith, coming to terms and evolving into a modern
left of centre party.
Rudd is in
neither of these camps, rather he is a Ronan King, aloof, arrogant, solo,
beholden to neither because of his (actually his wife’s) wealth. He will in all
likelihood take the mantle to the next election but the voters are sick of the spat
and will just as decisively kick them out.
This will
give the ALP time to reinvent and remake itself and hopefully shake off the shackles
of socialism and become that modern left of centre alternative.
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