Spleen Central

Let me get the Labor Party thing of my chest. What a bloody cop out! No Kevin, no Julia, just a bunch of scared little men (and women) hiding behind Big Kim. All this faux unity. I mean, it's like some sort of baudrillard-ian simulation of unity—if we all hide the knives behind out backs, look at the camera and smile, everyone will think we're just one big happy family. When it's so fucking obvious that there is no unity, just those same unelected shadows from the NSW/QLD Right in the background with their threats and arm twisting. (Does the name Eric Roozendaal ring a bell? Of course not. A year or so ago he was a prime Anyone-But-Crean mover and shaker in ALP NSW Headquarters, now safely shoe-horned into the NSW Legislative Council). Do they think that some sort of QUITE BLOODY OBVIOUS façade of 'unity', some papering over of differences for the camera, like those sets they use in Hollywood that looks like a house but is only a clapboard image of a house held erect by triangular struts and will topple in the slightest gust, and a complete bloody whole where any sort of policy should be, will help them to look more attractive to the Australian public? We're wiser than that, buckoes.

The things you have to do, for a start, are bloody well apologise for cocking up the last election, in particular, whoever-the-fuck was responsible for the atrocious preference deal in Victoria which put in a reactionary religious conservative in the senate ahead of a 'fellow-traveller' of sorts from the Greens. Now whoever did that deal to try to save Jacinta Collins should be taken out and summarily shot.

NOW.

No, fuck that. THREE MONTHS AGO.

Then how about some policy? Perhaps a policy that doesn't involve throwing money at the well-feathered middle class? Perhaps something with just a small smattering of 'bold', something that recognises that there ARE single people without kids who vote, like Medicare Gold did for the 80+s. Not that it won their votes, but they're rusted on to John Howard anyway. At least Julia had some sort of vision. Unlike the rest of you fuckers.

Just something that you guys care about. Other than your own hides (and superfunds), apparatchiks. But if you care about it, and you believe in it (whatever it is), people will hear and see conviction, and perhaps be more inclined to listen. As opposed to difference for difference sake, or damn mask of unity you are insisting on wearing, and quite frankly, you've made yourselves look like first-class fools.

Ok, that's off the chest. I can move on.