Wow, Julia — for some reason I thought you were going to settle in for a while and run the government.  And I (wrongly, I see now) assumed all the election date speculation was just the Press Gallery smoking more crack than usual to keep warm over the chilly Canberran winter.

I guess I can understand you wanting to have some sort of mandate from being ‘elected as PM’ but that just irks me because I know I can’t vote for you: I don’t live in Laylor.

Whatever.

The main reason why I was surprised is because there’s a similar vibe to the 2008 vote in WA — you know the un-losable election that the Libs won even through Colin Barney-Rubble had to scurry back from retirement because they were (still are!) such a mess.

And look at the guy now — he’s bloody Mr Popular!!

I was also reminded of the shitness of the ALP that led to the 2008 WA loss through an article Professor Malcolm Farnsworth wrote yesterday about the new Labor Connect thingo… especially this bit:

Will the online forum ever see the light of day in the byzantine innards of the party where decisions are really made? Is this slick technology, replete with pictures of “Julia” smiling down on doting hospital patients, designed to empower its users or merely occupy them? When a user comments on the policy statements posted on Labor Connect, who will ever read it, let alone act on it?

And will Labor Connect permit genuine, authentic debate? Will it tolerate full-throated disputation on asylum seekers, climate change policies or an internet filter?

The way the ALP approaches Twitter and Facebook is not encouraging. Communication is one-way. Broadcasting, preaching and lecturing dominate. Gillard’s 11 tweets since July 4 do not contain a single interaction with a real person.

Your Twitter is rather embarrassing.  As the LOL-Cats catch phrase goes: you’re doing it wrong.

And I certainly haven’t seen any of that ‘consultative’ politics business you mentioned on Day 1. It just been preach, preach, preach; non-stop.

Well, Julia: yawn, yawn, yawn.

Frankly, you’re just as bad as the other guy (I won’t go on at length about you being worse than him on the asylum seeker thing, but, honestly: offshore processing? Were you high, Julia???).

Anyway, I hope you guys remember all the wise words that came out from the Ray Review about the Great WA Election Debacle of 2008 and don’t get caught short on 21 August.

Now that you’ve called the election, I will try harder to write every day.  Even if you’re not responding.

Because this way, if I do make the effort, and you still don’t care, I won’t have to feel guilty for voting against the ALP come 21 August.

Cheers
Sunili