Tough Love

It looks like Comrade Julia and our Labor Government are going to adopt a "Tough Love" approach to welfare - when she and Swanny publish the "Budget" next month.

I have no doubt that both the Labor and Liberal parties will be in lockstep in their race to the bottom - to see who can come down the harshest on welfare recipients. Particularly newstarters and disability pensioners.

Why you ask? Because as I outlined here - they are both trying to capture the "right wing authoritarians" who cheer on any attempt by governments to beat up the weak and the frail and those who find themselves in difficult circumstances.

These people are why our asylum seeker debate is so broken.

Believe it or not these gutless wonders number around 25% of our population and they still have a vote. So both major parties are obliged to do their best to capture them.

And Monsignori Abbott with his little helper has done the better job of that over the past few months. So Comrade Julia will be obliged to follow in his footsteps - or face electoral oblivion.

It's why she has been beating up on the Greens recently - this is all about doing the groundwork to discard any notion that our Labor Government is in any way "Left Leaning".

She thinks that bad mouthing the "Greens" and trying to capture the "Far Right" will somehow *magically* win the Labor Party back all the support they have lost over the last year.

Think again girl - what it will do is expose you and your party as the hypocrites that you are.

Where is Mark Latham when you need him?