Shorten Good as Gone

[Dave The Man]

No one in the Public likes Him and Going Back on his Promises.

Only matter of Time and Need to so the Coalition Pricks out of Goverment

[Pies4shaw]

[Dave The Man]

[David]

Not anyone who’s been a Labor Party MP for the last 30 years...

So long as Labor are leading in the polls or neck and neck, I think Shorten will be sticking around. I don’t particularly like him and never have, but who are you going to replace him with? Albo? Plibberz? Can’t say I’m particularly thrilled about either prospect.

[Dave The Man]

[David]

^ She’d be better than those three, for sure. Maybe she’ll have a run at the lower house when Shorten’s gig is up (as obviously it’ll be clear to all and sundry that such a move is an open leadership challenge).

[Mugwump]

I only spend a few months a year in Australia, so my exposure is necessarily limited... but Plibersek always seems fairly coherent and (in the cursory way one must judge these things) competent. What is the critique of her ? She has always struck me as leagues more electable than that shabby opportunist Bill Shorten.

[Pies4shaw]

Is that the standard we want them to strive for: “Vote for [x], she is not a shabby opportunist]?”

[Wokko]

Albo would win in a landslide. He's a socialist sure, and Labor don't like hard Left leaders (Gillard and Whitlam are the only two I can think of in recent history) but he's the most electable of the lot.

[Mugwump]