[News] Politics and shit.

[moonvoice]

So this time, yesterday morning, Kevin Rudd was quite happily trucking along (reports on this vary) as the Prime Minister of Australia.

And then, within the Labor party, a few people staged kind of a coup, went to Dep Prime Minister Julia Gillard (who is fucking awesome, but we'll save that for a later time) and said, 'hey Julia, we're not so happy with Kevin Rudd. For bunches of reasons. Would you challenge him at the seat of PM?'

Julia was all like 'no way hozay... but... now that I think about it, okay, I'll be a reluctant challenger.'

And then Julia went to Mr. Rudd, yesterday, and was all like 'things aren't going so great, yo.' And Mr. Rudd, never being one to hide from a challenge says 'we'll put it to a vote within the party tomorrow morning. If you win, you will be the Prime Minister. And Australia's first female Prime Minister. Can you funk that up?'

Julia Gillard said, 'I don't know if I really want to Kevo, but we have to do what's best for the party, so sure, I'll metaphorically stab you in the back about six months before election time and we'll see if everyone likes me more, a la Gossip Girl popularity contest!'

Kevo smiles, because secretly he likes trashy American TV, and though he'd never admit it, this was a rare sign of solidarity between himself and Julia 'I like a bit of Strine' Gillard.

And then Wayne Swan drawled out something like, 'man, you guys make decisions faaaaaaast.'

So far the polls show that Julia Gillard is likely to win out and become the first female Prime Minister in Australia. But we'll all know in a couple of hours twenty minutes anyway. It'll all be over then.

Julia Gillard is Australia's first female Prime Minister. Kevo didn't even put himself up for re-vote.

* Note: Dialogue paraphrased for dramatic effect. ;)

Comments

[shadows-wolf06.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I caught that, but you also stated that you like him. My comment was due in part to the fact that it seems many of my buddies from out of country seem to appreciate and respect him more often than not.

Thus the, "...Obama is their homeslice," comment.

As far as politicians being put on the spot to make decisions, despite how popular or unpopular they will be... well, the majority of us give them the power to do so as that's how they get into office in the first place.

I know there will never be a time where one politician is able to make the entire mass of citizens happy as there's so many opposing views throughout just one country's political system. I don't expect that there will ever be a Utopian society, but I do think that a politician should keep the promises they make before being elected (call me naive or innocent, I know, lol).