He is obviously too polite to label the other reason we await a “tsunami” that is the widespread antipathy to Gillard herself and the doubting of every word she says, without even naming her murky,unsavoury marital affairs and that AWU past.

Thanks to both Helen Armstrong at 2:42 and Cold-Hands above for finding those two Christopher Pearson columns ( which I had conflated as one revealing column ).

MUST save for posterity.

In summary – whoever the Real Julia is, it is not even clear whether the present incumbent of The Lodge can find her anymore.

And I thought the link to Paul Sheehan’s latest column over on the Open Thread has relevance to this topic.

As parsed by CL

Driving this process is a self-perpetuating political class which seeks relevance through regulation, of which there is always more, while nothing is ever repealed, so that regulations, the tools of legalism and control, simply multiply and grow.

So I maintain my thesis, the political class are not like “us” and do not see themselves like “us” – except where there is political advantage in spinning some ‘common touch’.

The carefully contrived and cultivated ocker accent is reportedly nothing like the way she spoke when younger.

I’m intrigued. Bearing in mind belief is one thing and facts are another altogether, can you remember where, when and by whom it was reported? I wouldn’t be surprised as so much else about her past has been constructed by her and her sycophants since her ascension.

From another Christopher Pearson column from 2011.

ON a lighter note, fresh evidence has come to hand on traditional Labor folkways of the late 1980s from Bob Ellis in his book Suddenly, Last Winter: An Election Diary (Penguin Viking).

He recalls a dinner with, among others, Bob Carr and the actor Stephen Ramsey. They were discussing Julia Gillard’s accent and Ramsey, who went to the same high school, said: “I never heard a voice like hers in my six years there. We all sounded like Don Dunstan.”

Carr said: “Gillard’s accent , and I have some knowledge of voice-training, is acquired. It is learned. It is trained. It is the required house accent of Slater & Gordon, solicitors. They all talk like that.”

Certainly, judging by the Australian Story on Gillard that interviewed her family, neither her parents or sister sound anything like her.

Then – her slack jawed Treasurer has the temerity and brain damaged ignorance to sledge the US Tea party faction as “fanatics” because they want lower taxes, greater value for money and rationality for spending and balanced budgets as well as more accountability and better governance etc.

Peter Slipper will beome the Ambassador to Belgium. He’ll get on VERY well with their homosexual PM (they share a taste in bow ties as well as freckle).

And the Lying Slapper will come out as a mutant orang-hutan who was kidnapped by rogue cosmetic surgeons on crack.

Abbot is widely reviled as a misogynist, he can never beat a copetent woman like Gillard and Mal Brough will die of shame and Peter Slipper will become a Special Minister of State, and Thommo will become the Governor General.

The Labor Party implemented a tax whose purpose was to encoolen the earth.

That’s rather clever C.L. I have to steal that!

The carefully contrived and cultivated ocker accent is reportedly nothing like the way she spoke when younger.

I’m intrigued. Bearing in mind belief is one thing and facts are another altogether, can you remember where, when and by whom it was reported?

I wouldn’t be surprised as so much else about her past has been constructed by her and her sycophants since her ascension.