A purge

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What is happening in federal Labor atm is what should have happened in NSW state labor at least a year before the last state election. There have been a lot of greivances simmering away and in a way its good now that they have surfaced and everybody can get everything of their chests. Labor will recover from this and probably be better for it in the long run. By the time the next election comes around we would have served 2 terms, which is about average for a Labor federal government. Labor provides all the reforms and the Libs reap all the benefits. If we win the next election, we win. If we dont, then let the constituents regret their choice at their leisure.

Rudd puts his personal ambitions well before the good of the party. He claims that he is the best person to take it up to Abbott in the next election. Remember in the 2007 campaign "Work Choices" was the main issue and the unions worked harder than ever before with their magnificent "Your rights at work" campaign. I honestly feel that the proverbial drover's dog would have won that one.

The question that I've been asking everybody is; If a party member goes out of his way to sabotage an election campaign, causing a minority government and then goes on attempting to undermine that government, shouldn't that be grounds for dismissal from the party?

Unfortunately, with Rudd's "Tea Party" tactics for a caucus vote, he is only achieving alienating the public against the inevitable winner. The laws of the party when it comes to caucus votes in the federal sphere, Labor representatives from the states or any outsiders or not to be involved.

I do wonder with his family standing like soldiers behind him, if he treats them with the same disdain that he treated the ministers, staff and public servants when he was Prime Minister. His daughter and son-in-law have come over from China for a caucus vote. Were they ordered to do his? I'm just wondering.

They say a leopard never changes his spots and from what I have seen since his dramatic resignation from the Foreign Affairs ministry at 1.30am DC time, he is still the same old same old.