A few days ago I said that Gillard’s spin merchant was going to ensure her loss at the next election (or sooner if Rudd returns), like McTernan had to his previous employers.
Chris Kenny has picked up on the theme, clearly showing the influence McTernan has over the direction of Labor.
Surprising isn’t it? This import is a proven loser, so why does he have so much influence over the Prime Minister and her team?
UPDATE
Mind you, all the spin in the world is not going to help sell this product
They specialise in losers is why, Samuel.
We mistakenly tend to see the Left as being good at politics. They have the institutions by the balls, they seem to control setting the agenda, and the whole country is inundated by their chosen topic of the day/week.
But their judgement, like their political philosphy is flawed. They believe in stuff they cannot know. They tend not to learn from their mistakes because their antics are supported by their cheer squads and the so called MSM. So we get one self defeating travesty after another. Each stuffup happens to quickly we dont even get time to reflect on the lessons of the last one.
From Chris Kenny:
There is no consistency. There is no honesty. And that applies to the media too, who today have drummed out the prescribed message that turning the boats back wasn’t discussed with SBY.
But the Cat was onto this early in the day. The coalition will not get in Indonesia’s face the way the ALP and the ABC do, even after being told it’s not the way professionals do diplomacy over there. Result” they’ll be able to put together an effective portfolio of measures that are not driven by the wrong political considerations – those of the greens and wet left.
Meanwhile, the media and the ALP will continue to – perhaps not offend the Indons, but not achieve a border protection mix that works, and in part it will be that they don’t do diplomacy that well.
Power corrupts, and the most corrupting force is that provided by the herd. Learning to recognise herd behaviour and, more importantly, resist it is difficult, whether you are in kindergarten or the public service. One of the best bosses I have ever had told me that the herd may well be right, but I should always presume they were wrong. The herd instinct is so strong in Canberra that no-one knows anything outside the herd exists.
This mob have overestimated their ability to control outcomes and go on repeating what doesn’t work.
Lobotomised leftist losers will nevah, evah admit they are wrong.
Consequently they are incapable of learning from their mistakes and are thus condemned to go on repeating them.
Because Samuel, the locals were stuffing things up for the hapless gillard so they thought an import would do better. ha ha.
The cultural cringe lives!
Have you considered the possibility that he is better than the combined intellectual might of the current Federal Cabinet?
Bit of a long shot I know, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
This government has a long (and expensive) history of choosing losers. At least this time they are lumbering themselves with the consequences.
Perhaps Graham Richardson orchestrated it, or Bruce Hawker. One of the two anyway.
Those who think John McTernan is no good at his job fail to understand what his job is.
Labor has a choice between total annihilation and mere devastation at the next election, and much of the outcome depends on who is leading the LIBS at the time.
For all his faults Abbott is the current best person for the job. Getting him replaced with somebody, anybody, is Labor’s first priority.
Hence the concerted effort by Gillard and her handbag brigade to taint Abbott in the eyes of the electorate to the extent that the LIBS consider replacing him with a more “woman friendly” candidate.
McTernan is the man charged with planning and coordinating this endeavor and in that context he is doing an excellent job.
One doesn’t have to look too closely to realise he has even managed to enlist the unwitting aid of those in the LIBS who want Turnbull back. That is some feat.
Perhaps Tony Abbott arranged for McTernan to work for Gillard?
And I think it raises the question of Tony Abbott’s role in all this.
The import is a proven loser because he doesn’t get the average Australian.
There we were, having a nice old relaxed existence, not bothering too much about politics or class warfare or gender warfare, just ticking along earning a nice living.
Now, here we are, having politics, class warfare, gender warfare rammed down our throats, having to worry about earning a living at all, by the sons and daughters of failed British communists.
YET AGAIN… how is this idiot employed in Australia?
Does he have a restricted work visa (if so when will it expire) or has some braindead civils servant granted permanent residents’ status…and why? He couldn’t possible pass any test as to his “good character”
I guess Senator Doug Cameron got him the gig- what’s the betting that McTernan is a nephew or cousin or some such. Nepotism is a way of life for Labor.
Because they are addicted to failure.
McTernan also worked on the Rudd election campaign in ’07.
Ah McTernan, he’s going to be dismissed from his ALP guru job just in time to get back to that UK Labour stronghold Scotland to advise the laddies on the separation referendum.
The UK Conservatives can’t believe their good fortune. 2010 Labour won 41 out of 59 seats, while the Tories ended up with just one MP.
Mendicant Scottish Labour voters and their comrade MPs can then try and extract their lifestyles from the carcasses of whatever business remains.
Mendicants never vote not to live on other people’s money so Scotland will reject the separation referendum straight up, do not not pass go, collect money from the UK taxpayer.
Like calls to like, then they mate, and their hell-spawn we call ALP-greenfilth policy.
The ALP keep misdiagnosing their main problem. They keep saying that it is just the message – sales pitch. What they can’t grasp is that their product is shit. It is kind of like using different coloured ribbon to tie a pretty looking bow on a turd and wondering why.people don’t want your ‘gift’…the colour of the ribbon is irrelevant.
Yeah but the Scots are still living large on the North Sea oil riches. Aberdeen may be a sh*thole but its got some of the highest average salaries in the UK.
Labor is a turd. McTernan rolls it in glitter.
Hey elephant poo makes a reasonable fertiliser even though it is fairly low in nitrogen content and very fibrous. So I could sell that “Elephant Manure with a little human contamination” Or if you throw the human in can also be “Blood and Bone Manure mix” full of all the things a plant would want.
Do you reckon that is McTernan under that pile, or Wayne Swan?
The large proboscis and generously proportioned rear end generating the pile, certainly LOOK familiar…who could it be, I wonder?