‘What do the Right have left? If they don’t arrest the slide now, it’s possible that the next election will see not only the routing of the Labor Government but the end of the Right’s dominance.

So you strike while you can – install a RIght Premier, reverse the dangerous changes made by Rees (using the authority of the Premier’s office, which the Left will not very well be able to complain about) and prepare for life in Opposition…with the Right firmly back in control’

Kristina Keneally has become the first female Premier of NSW after defeating incumbent Nathan Rees 47 to 21 votes in a Labor caucus meeting this evening.

The leadership ballot took place after Nathan Rees quit the NSW Labor leadership.

Mr Rees lost the spill motion 43 votes to 25.

Caucus then annointed Ms Keneally, the planning minister, as the state’s 42nd premier.</blockquote

Where are the imbecilic women who think the rise Kenneally is some sort of triumph for their gender? Patronage and a sense of entitlement is what you need to make it? Fuck that. She’s an idiot and so is everyone who voted for her.

Labor will lose the 2011 NSW election, it must lose, and anyone who thinks this is a bad thing is a fool.

The Right put up with Rees for fifteen months. The trains stink, literally and figuratively. Hospitals shudder. Sydney’s infrastructure groans from decades of underinvestment.

You know, ORDINARILY when faced with a government that shows contempt for civil liberties, a blind and unstinting faith in market-solutions over any sense of community, an extraordinary focus on ‘law and order’ over the actual causes of crime, incredible cronyism, and general complete incompetence, we turn to LABOR governments. But what the hell do we do if we already HAVE a Labor government?

So the Right put up with Rees until the day he turned on their power-brokers, who were a fairly significant part of the reason why Labor is loathed in the first place — the coziness with big business, the corruption, the general contempt for democracy. And they toss him out and replace him with the candidate MOST identified with Tripodi and Obeid and their whole NSW Right ilk, and the most likely to look at the direction they’ve driven the state in and to yell FASTER!

I have a new blog. It’s called ‘Labor for O’Farrell’. It has no posts yet. It doesn’t have any overriding policies, since, let’s face it, in most respects the Liberals would be worse. But it is driven by one undeniable impulse — this government must go. It must die. A stake must be driven through its heart and its scattered remains must be buried at diverse crossroads. This shambles must END.

As I said, I had the benefit, if that is indeed the right term, of knowing him and his circle of Labor Unity types personally in the mid-1980s, so perhaps I am prejudiced.

I can’t think of many people in the parliament I’d be less happy to see as premier

Is that including the Liberals, Fran?

Roozendale and Della Bosca are given the bad news — their faction doesn’t support them and thinks that only Sartor could win in a challenge. Roozendale who had denied involvement is shown to be a liar. Gosh, what a surpise.

I recall Eric from Macquarie Uni in the mid-1980s. I will avoid saying defamatory things on this site, but let’s just say I can’t think of many people in the parliament I’d be less happy to see as premier.

You have to wonder about the sanity of people who are arguing about who gets to wear the captain’s hat on a ship that needs all hands focused on stopping it from sinking beneath the waves.