It must be an Andrew thing – the first prominent blogging politician was Andrew Bartlett, back when he was a Democrats Senator. Now, well known econo-blogger, Dr Andrew Leigh, has taken up the cudgels in his new guise as federal Member for Fraser.
Andrew’s blog is here.
This is terrible blogging now that he’s partisan. I hope he loses the next election so that he can become a credible voice again.
Somehow I can’t see Tony Abbott will be interested in reading Andrew Leigh’s opinion piece for 28/9/10 titled “Working Together”.
While I hope he stays an MP for a long time, usually blogs of politicians from mainstream parties are not that interesting. They become de facto press releases for the party they belong to. Which is understandable. Imagine the media storm that would ensue if an MP blogger disagreed with a decision taken by their party.
Well, that’s going to google-bomb Andrew Fraser’s web profile.
Thanks LP for pointing me in the direction of Andrew’s new blog – I have been lamenting the loss of the old one. But I echo other comments in the hope that Andrew will get back to some substance even if it gets up the noses of the party whips and factional bosses. If you’re listening Andrew, give it a red hot go.
I just nipped over there for a look.
There’s 20 minutes I’ll never get back and can’t justify having spent.
He wants to be a minister eventually and isn’t going to do anything to jeopardise that. Remember, he has no power base in the party. So, all getting up the noses of the faction bosses, whips and the leadership would achieve is accelerating the end of his career. What would be the point of that?
Labor Outsider: He should never have entered the parliament in the first place.
Jeezuz! What a disappointment. Where’s the dirt? I worry about a Labor member of parliament who thinks the Opposition are nice guys. They’re Liberals and Nats, FFS!
Leigh is much too nice and accommodating to succeed in politics. He’ll be chewed up and spat out in next to no time, leaving him a bloody, heaving mess curled up in the foetal position, crying for his mother.
And that will be his colleagues in the Labor Party.
Having had a look at “the blog” and read the profile in Saturday’s SMH, it appears to me that A. Leigh might see himself as a special member of the Labor Party who will be allowed to make it up as he goes – a sort of Labor Rob Oakshott. He might be in for a shock.