WHY is Julia Gilliard still holding the most responsible position in this country?
After lying to the electorate about a carbon tax, she has now broken a written promise.
This promise was made to poker machine reformist MP Andrew Wilkie and undertook to secure the passage of laws by May this year.
The reforms would force punters to set their own bet limits on poker machines from 2014, on a mandatory pre-commitment card.
It obviously became all too hard for Ms Gillard so, to put a slant on a popular cliché, when the going got tough the not so tough got going and ran from the deal.
WA Nationals MP and key crossbencher Tony Crook quite rightly warned independent MPs to think hard before making any future deals with our untrustworthy Prime Minister.
I’m sure he took a long time to think of that one!
But what’s surely equally obvious is that Gillard has hammered the umpteenth nail into her own coffin.
How on earth would she now expect voters to have any trust for her?
How would she expect any of her party colleagues to have any trust for her?
The writing was on the wall as soon as she backstabbed Kevin Rudd that she was a person of little integrity.
Australian politics needs a damn good shake-up. We cannot continue to have untrustworthiness, incompetence, belligerence and (to use a Paul Keating favourite) recalcitrance thrust in our faces.
As I’ve written before, Gillard is an embarrassment to this country, not only for her horrid Aussie drawl, but also because of her multiplying lies.
It makes one imagine how many lies haven’t made it to the public.
Julia Gillard should not be given the courtesy of being able to wait for the Australian population to sack her at the next election – she should be sacked now.
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