Sticks and Stones
Bill Heffernan’s comment about Julia Gillard was uncalled for but let’s not get carried away like a letter writer to the Australian who says he was leaning towards voting for the coalition but wont now due to Heffernan’s comments.
How shallow is that?
One can only wonder if he went the other way when Latham called Albrechtson a whore (‘shanky ho’) and what about Rudds repetitive over-the -top accusations against Downer and Howard over the AWB affair. As writer Randy Rose from Tasmania says Greg Combet was on the front page yesterday referring to his opponents within the union movement as “arseholes” No furore over that this mornng.
THERE I was, a swinging voter, intensely interested in the emerging strengths of the Opposition. However, the industrial relations policy announcements over the weekend had me leaning back to the Coalition. Now my mind’s made up. Any party that tolerates the repeated and most recent offensiveness of Australia’s Most Disgraced Senator won’t get my vote later this year. David Taylor Sydney, NSWIt’s cut and thrust of politics you silly, shallow man. The party you should vote for is the one, that in your opinion, offers the best economic, defence and social policies for Australia.
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Maybe old Heff is a rude, tactless dunce, or maybe he is a rat-cunning stalking horse. I suspect the former)
That aside, Mrs Gillard’s little girl (AKA The Red Barren) is not exactly sweetness and light herself.
Her pointlessly ageist comments about Howard are one thing.
Her breathtaking hypocrisy in berating the government about its putative nostalgia for the 1950’s is another. Much of her content and style are straight out of the 1930’s shop stewards handbook.
The recent thinly-veiled threats to business might also require consideration.
Recall that she destroyed Craig emerson’s marriage.
Recall also that, after a surfeit of throat oil, she laid the word on a fellow female ALP parliamentarian.
Class act, our Julia!
I didn’t know about the ‘fellow female…..etc’ but am not surprised. I would imagine she’d be on top too.