I can almost hear Bob Carr boom it out as I type, and I'm in another state, so he must really be happy.
Seems another Union is threatening to quit the Labor Party. This time it's the AWU threatening to part from the NSW branch of the ALP.
My only surprise is that it gets written up as a story. It’s been happening in Victoria for years and it’s going to continue to happen all over the country as Labor positions itself as the party of niceness and smiles.
However, is this a bad thing for the Labor party? As I see it the ALP want the unions to quit, or at least give the impression that they’re unhappy with the party.
That way they can minimise the perception that they're a bunch of red-ragging radicals while the union takes all the lumps by continuing to maintain that ”The boss is a c**t!” and by association keep up the gross hypocrisy that the Liberal party is a bunch of greedy, big business swine. And hypocritical it is too because the NSW Labor party has become, like it's brother in Victoria, just another Liberal Party. Until they spend all the money, that is.
In the end they know the unionists will overwhelmingly vote Labor and if they don’t they’ll vote Green and the votes will come back in preferences and they also know the unions can be counted upon to do all the footslogging and talk-back phone calling come election time.
Expect the same federally. Watch as Federal Labor slough off any association with the hard left, dreamoid cranks and professional outragists and continue to paint the Liberal Party as a bunch of self-centred, uncaring fascists. Or in Mark Latham’s ongoing refrain, ”Evil Tories”.
Be very careful John Howard!
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