- Nov 20, 2011
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Bob Brown (as depicted on the Andrew Bolt Blog)
Hilarious!
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Bob Brown (as depicted on the Andrew Bolt Blog)
It's funny to watch the Liberal barrackers around here all predict the demise of the Greens. Keep up the good work folks
She was elected unopposed. Bandt elected deputy.
Australian politics has lost one of it's few principled individuals.
I'm sure the more deluded elements see Browns retirement as a planned Liberal Party act of Machiavellian genius.
"We knew if we did NOTHING long enough, he'd eventually break!"
They are truly disturbed individuals. Every bit as moronic as the christian republican elements of the U.S. south.
The more out of touch with reality they are, the harder it is for them to successfully change things in their favour.
Yes very amusing, gross hypocrite over so many issues its not funny.
Wow - I guess you would be explaining how a party with such a small vote Australia wide has such a presence in Australian politics.
You having such a grasp of democracy and all that......
Great ...just great...another woman political leader ... has worked so well lately.....
Kristina....Anna ...Jools.....
Watch the Greens now go the way of the Democrats.......a la the Stott Despoja / Meg Lees factors......
Great ...just great...another woman political leader ... has worked so well lately.....
Kristina....Anna ...Jools.....
Watch the Greens now go the way of the Democrats.......a la the Stott Despoja / Meg Lees factors......
Pretty sexist comment coming from a "female"
It sounds like you need a dose of ACTION MAN!
Feel better now?
“They cannot do a backroom boys' deal to replace him. There needs to be a full election held.”
Say what you like about Brown's ideas and policies, but he's principled.
The Greens have been stealing votes of the ALP for years now, so much that the ALP is teatering.
^^So your saying that the Greens are going to drop-off, the ALP will pick up support and that this ALP improvement is somehow going to instigate a challenge against Gillard, all before September.
Yep. The partisan hacks in here are showing their true colours by attacking Brown's principles.
I personally can see this being the beginning of the end/end of the beginning/whatever for the Greens. Could easily go pear-shaped within years. When the two major parties are so similar (and both so terrible) an option like the Greens will gain some of the vote out of protest - but only so long as they are seen to be more principled than their major party rivals. Instability along environmental/socialist lines (as has been referred to in the press for some time and in this thread already) could easily lose the Greens much of that vote. But I don't see that as a bad thing for the ALP.
[As for Action Man Abbott, I reckon he needs to do more work on his upper back (in particular his lats) but for his age he is in tremendous shape.]
"University of Tasmania economist Peter Whish-Wilson, who was second on the Greens Tasmanian Senate ticket at the 2010 election, is the likely replacement if he wants Brown’s spot; Whish-Wilson is highly regarded within the party."
http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/13/bob-brown-resigns-as-greens-leader/
It's less about the politics of personality and more about factionalism. There has always been tension between the blue-ribbon environmentalists and the left-wing social activists within the Greens. Brown was a strong leader and kept them largely in check.Came to have a laugh at all the Brown haters predicting the demise of the Greens now he has retired - conflicted much?
It might affect their vote slightly in the short term, but most Greens voters are well educated and unlikely to be swayed by the politics of personality.