"Bomber" Beazley Cannot Win!!!
November 22nd 2006 14:13
Put simply Labor cannot win the next federal election with Kym Beazley as their leader. This one simple fact should be quite obvious to the power brokers and machine men of the Labor Party. However it seems the disastrous flirtation with a relatively young and inexperienced leader in that of Mark Latham has left no one within the party (other then a retiring M.P. in the form of Harry Quik) with any intestinal fortitude to give Kym the tap on the shoulder.
Poll after poll shows that the electorate at large believes that Beazely just does not have what it takes to be considered an alternative Prime Minister.
I recently attend a social gathering with people who were ALP supporters and workers as well as people working within the union movement. Now you would consider that someone amongst them would have that kind of blind loyalty that a football fans has about the team they have supported all their life. However not one person there felt that despite rising interest rates, an unpopular war in Iraq and some of the most regressive labour laws we have ever seen "Bomber" Beazley could win.
This comes on top of my own day to day observations and interactions with people who tell me how they despise Howard but see Beazley as no alternative at all. A recent street poll conducted in the Courier -Mail found only 20% of people thought labor could win the election under Beazley. Now I know that street polls are no scientific poll but you would think given that Labor polls a pretty consistent 40% first vote support that you could expect that maybe you would get 35% at least who would say that he could win.
Beazley has been running the line lately that he is the most experienced person in the party and as such he should be leader. His experience unfortunately and he seems to forget this (though given his recent slip ups and forget fullness this may be understandable) is at losing elections.
The Labor party will stand condemned at the next election if they go into it with Beazley and lose. Through its sheer arrogance and down right cowardice it will have let down working people, the environment and those of us who believe in peace rather then war as a solution.
Poll after poll shows that the electorate at large believes that Beazely just does not have what it takes to be considered an alternative Prime Minister.
I recently attend a social gathering with people who were ALP supporters and workers as well as people working within the union movement. Now you would consider that someone amongst them would have that kind of blind loyalty that a football fans has about the team they have supported all their life. However not one person there felt that despite rising interest rates, an unpopular war in Iraq and some of the most regressive labour laws we have ever seen "Bomber" Beazley could win.
This comes on top of my own day to day observations and interactions with people who tell me how they despise Howard but see Beazley as no alternative at all. A recent street poll conducted in the Courier -Mail found only 20% of people thought labor could win the election under Beazley. Now I know that street polls are no scientific poll but you would think given that Labor polls a pretty consistent 40% first vote support that you could expect that maybe you would get 35% at least who would say that he could win.
Beazley has been running the line lately that he is the most experienced person in the party and as such he should be leader. His experience unfortunately and he seems to forget this (though given his recent slip ups and forget fullness this may be understandable) is at losing elections.
The Labor party will stand condemned at the next election if they go into it with Beazley and lose. Through its sheer arrogance and down right cowardice it will have let down working people, the environment and those of us who believe in peace rather then war as a solution.
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