The ALP versus everyone
I have reserved my opinion on Lindsay Tanner but now I can state I ‘m not impressed. I saw him on TV last night trying to put Rudd’s attack on the Public Servants into a favourable light
He failed. He said words to the effect that after 11 years of not having any demands placed on them by the Howard government he has no sympathy for them now the Rudd is demanding some hard work.
So Lindsay thinks they have been bludging for eleven years.
Rudd is well down the track to alienate half of Canberra as he takes on the personae of a boss from hell and tells them to stop complaining and be prepared to work harder;
The Prime Minister’s peevish response to the cabinet leak brought on a deluge of defensive calls to talkback radio in Canberra. The attitude was repeated on Friday evening’s edition of the ABC’s Stateline. When the Prime Minister had a second go, he insisted that he had a mandate for reform and therefore could require the public service to work as hard as he believed was necessary.And Bob McMullan is simply still condescending and offensive;
….public servants should feel privileged to work on a great program of reform.Yeah, right! Keep attacking them Kevin and co and we may see something I never thought would happen – a Coaliton supporting public service.
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Its classic Krudd – he picks a weak target (everyone thinks Public Servants are bludgers) and puts the boot in as a distraction from his own failings (the fuelwatch fiasco being the big one right now, but the hypocrisy of the “bad bosses benefit under workchoices, workers suffer” advertising when he IS one of the worst bosses on record seems to be upcoming too.
Does he mean the work ethic or does he mean the work LOAD.
Everyone knows the workload will increase. The public servants will have to keep stomping out fires… gathering the papers to be shuffled… etcetera.
It is wrong to think it, but the word schaedenfreude definately comes to mind. Take a little captain cook at the returns for the ACT in the last Federal Election36.6% for the Coalition to 63.4% for the ALP TPP. I think the obvious fact remains that the Federal Public Service, who comprise the vast majority of the ACT electorates, only have themselves to blame. Harsh maybe, but the facts remain that they had it so good under the coalition, but chose to support Dudd en masse. Do I feel sorry for them? Possibly in the same way that you feel sorry for somebody that goes street racing in their car and ends up becoming a paraplegic. You still reckon they are bloody stupid, but you feel a certain residual humanity for their plight.
Prediction – Rudd will be gone before Christmas