Left Right Out

Do you remember the kerfuffle in the Victorian ALP that stopped Julia from gaining pre-selection for a federal seat in 1993 and 1996? Neither do I but according to Crikey - “There was just no compelling internal factional logic why Gillard deserved a federal seat”. It was 1998 when Gillard finally got the nod in Lalor after doing a deal with the right.

During her political career our PM has been cosy with the left and more recently she has sucked up to the right.

But if you listen to the extreme conservative commentariat then you will know that she is really a full bore lefty who is just biding her time and will eventually unleash a wave of socialist left policy - all of which will decimate the nation and its people.

But that is BS. Because the one thing that Australian's have already worked out is that she is just another opportunistic politician who doesn't believe in anything of substance - either from the left or the right. This is why her personal polling is so bad.

She may have started out as a lefty and she might have naively thought that she could carry that into the parliament and then into government and onto the executive. But the truth is that our political and media institutions are so dominated by the far right - that it could never happen. She would be pushing excrement uphill - forever.

I suppose you could fight them or you could join them. And she has joined them. She has even enlisted Rupert's help.

The problem with that is she has now trashed her credibility. How can you grow up as a lefty and a social democrat and then when you actually get to pull the levers become just another right winger with all its associated harshness.

Particularly the harshness of mandatory detention and offshore processing with asylum seekers. And warmongering - is it really 29 young dead Australian boys? I am surprised that she actually manages to sleep each evening. Must be the effects of the Prime Ministerial wine cellar.

The simple truth is that her personal polling is a demonstration of the power that is wielded by the folks who really control the place. And a little bit of a warning to anyone else from the left who thinks they can challenge the might of the right.

This is why they have gone all apoplectic about the Greens - because unlike Julia they won't roll over.