Gillard
The Herald Sun on Gillard’s duplicity – it reads like pure Kim Philby:
The issue isn’t just whether there’s a Red under the bed, but a liar as well. Labor’s deputy leader Julia Gillard has claimed she was just a part-time “typist” in her “university days” to a mere “debating society” called the “Socialist Forum”, and has really been a “fiscal conservative” all along.
In fact, she was on the management committee of this far-Left group, which was formed by former communists to help them join Labor, and she stayed there even when she was well into her law career.
But how desperately she tries to deny the truth. Yesterday she was asked this on Adelaide radio:
Interviewer: So when did you cease being a member of the Socialist Forum?
Gillard: Well, many a long year ago, and obviously my most active involvement was when I was a university student more than 20 years ago.
The Herald Sun’s Gerard McManus runs this past the fact-checker:
The parliamentary register of interests states Ms Gillard remained a member of Socialist Forum from 1998-2002, after which the group merged with the Fabian Society.
The Herald Sun has also seen a 1994 promotional flyer presenting her as a guest speaker at a Forum event. It describes her as a “member of the Socialist Forum Management Committee”.
Other documents show she authored numerous Socialist Forum papers and organised events, summer schools and conferences on topics such as “Being a Socialist Teacher”.
Dave Cole wrote:
She is, of course, the first woman to be PM of Australia, and drafted the affirmative actions rules “within the Labor Party in Victoria that set the target of preselecting women for 35 per cent of ‘winnable seats’[17] within a decade”. She was also involved in setting up EMILY’s List Australia. You can hear a brief interview with her on the subject of her atheism here.
Most of the invective on this blog has been about Cameron and not so much about Labour who are so far gone it’s hardly worth commenting on any more but this above just now, presumably made with a straight face by Dave Cole, a nice chap and one I count a friend but afflicted by the Labour disease nonetheless – well, it deserves comment.
I left one at his place myself about Gillard, to which Dave Cole replied: “Tell me you’re joking.”
This shows a deeply embedded mindset on anything Labo[u]r and it’s a fascinating study, digressing for one moment, how a Labour mind explains away the disaster the country is in and the debacle at the last general election.
Many Labourites just ignore politics now and have gone back to pieces on music, flowers, film etc. Those who do comment initially [whilst Labour was still in power] laid the blame on:
1. international factors;
2. previous Tory governments.
Now, as I know of the global socialists, Them and know that they infest all parties, then strangely, I’d go along with Dave there – they’re all as bad as each other. This was why the Albion Alliance had a tagline: “Country before party”. Yet Dave presumably shuts his eyes to all which has been written on it here and right across the media and so he can say to me: “Tell me you’re joking.”
After Labour lost, the blame was then shifted to Blair/Brown, again something that is fair and I’d agree with but Labour shift the blame so as to exonerate themselves and thus the Super Millipede Brothers are reborn pristine pure, to be re-elected next time when the Cam-Dems crash out ignominiously … or so the theory goes.
If you look at Dave’s quote above, he admits Gillard wrote the affirmative action rules – he actually admits it and doesn’t see it as a negative in any way, whilst it’s blighted the UK workforce. That there is a mandatory 35% women, irrespective of talent, to be in key posts does not strike Dave in being in the least odd, coercive or unhealthy, not to mention disingenuous on the question of who is included in “diversity”.
This is what I mean about the Labour mindset – it’s so far gone that one despairs how to get them to see what they are actually supporting and it’s sure not in the interests of our society.
Now let’s get back to Gillard. Not only is she a liar, hypocrite and backstabber [and I can quote a dozen sources on this - let's keep the post a decent length], but we also now get:
I’ll sack rats, Gillard vows
PM warns any minister caught leaking information will be sacked immediately.
“Caught”?
The witchhunter on her broom and everything subordinated to rooting out “disloyalty” to her, which brings up another issue – the type of woman who demands total loyalty and 24/7 attention and when someone begs to differ, he is a traitor.
This is pure Carly Fiorina or Patricia Dunn who started a witchhunt for anyone who was saying cruel things about her – very similar to Caroline Flint. And how about this bit of interference with another sovereign nation, in order to score votes before the election:
Julia Gillard throws her weight behind moves in Indonesia to get convicted drug trafficker an early release.
I hardly think that needs commenting on. I’m also not going to succumb to the temptation to write of women in senior management roles and how they get there – that’s another post. In fact, I’ve just deleted a post I was going to run, packed with examples on that very topic.
Let’s keep it, for now, to this Gillard ranga.
Why would I bother, being UK based, commenting on an Australian politician? It’s because we’re seeing here the sorry saga of Brown all over again, of a government who converted a surplus into a massive debt and then, in a night of the long knives, put in an unelected figure who makes key decisions for the country before being unceremoniously thrown out.
We’re seeing here the culmination of the implanting, as Andrew Bolt showed, of a hardliner Marxist organizer, not just a follower, in mainstream Labor and every step of the way up, she has been careful. Bereft of talent, she has the ideology – she is an ideologue – is that what the country needs at this time?
In a previous incident, when she was Shadow Health Minister, she confessed to a friend via email that she knew nothing about health and wished she did. Actually, as an unmarried, feminist, alleged lesbian with a token “partner”, athiest greenie [the greenies have now turned on her when she sold them out], she has all the qualifications of a Dalekette.
The only problem with that email is that she was tired that night and set it to Tony Abbott instead, by mistake. He hasn’t used it against her but to solve the problem, she went to a regional radio station to be interviewed, where she laughed off her gaff, then had the transcript typed out and filed for when Abbott might use it.
She’s deeply into he political game but not so much into substance, e.g. her porfolio.
Many of the pundits call her the Hollow Woman because she shifts policy like a Cameron – to gain power is everything and many point to her support of various groups, only to turn on them when the political climate changes – the mining industry in Australia is the current one. Only China and the Muslims do the treaty-breaking better.
This is the “person” Australians are thinking of electing as PM.
Or are they?
The two grounds on which she could be elected are:
1. That she is forthright and gives the appearance of being strong, rather than shrill, compared to Rudd’s vacillation and Abbott’s strangeness and commitment to unpopular work practices;
2. That she is a woman and will get the women’s vote.
Many in Labor see only the two party system and they have to get their gal in, by hook or by crook – that’s as far as they are capable of thinking. Gillard has been called a snake by many, even by those not on the right and that’s precisely what Labor has on its hands here – she is a hardliner Marxist who needs to be in place by 2012 – she’s two years early, in fact.
Australia doesn’t know but are increasingly finding out, if the pundits are to be believed, now increasingly worldwide, just what sort of creature she is. Abbott’s certainly not electable but this Gillard … oh my goodness.
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