Winds of change

Anyone who payed any attention to the European elections or watched the news the last few days will have heard about the abysmal performance of the UK labor party. It made me wonder may our labour party be heading down the same path. They are unlikely to get involved in the same money related scandals or that Mr Rudd’s popularity is going to plummet. Though there is a 3rd problem that hit the UK Labor party and is showing signs of hurting ours to. That is the fact they have drifted so far to the right. They have alienated many of their traditional left wing supporters by their conservative views. Right now various state Labor parties are in the process of trying to privatize things, that is traditionally a Conservative idea. The Australian labor party is no better than the UK branch it may not have renamed its self new labor though it has defiantly drifted to the right. The Recent victory of the Greens in Fremantle is a sign of this change. (http://greensmps.org.au/blog/730-report-fremantle-election).

The same happened in the UK with their labor party losing labor seats to other parties notably the BNP. I’m not pleased about the BNP's rise but it’s hardly suppressing given the mess the UK labor party is in. Although I am glad to see the UK Greens, doing better out of it to.

As the 7:30 Report suggests things are changing. Labor needs to change to or they are going to suffer the consequences. We don’t have any strong straight forward left wing parties in this country although the Greens are a serious contender. When you look past the name they are fairly central left wing. If labor continues down this path they will be fighting the Liberals for seats and the Greens and Socialist Alliance will claim all their old strong holds.

I’m well aware that Rudd’s popularity is still very high (Click here) though change is coming and labor seems to have stuck their heads in the sand. Much like they are ignores other types of change to sadly.

O well on a positive note for labor supporters out there. The National party are even more screwed. Unfortunately for them the rising sea levels won’t flow off the edge of the world.

For the record I voted for Rudd as he was clearly the lesser of two evils. Though unless labor makes some serious changes. They have lost my vote next time.

O and if you missed the EU elections and want to know what happend here is the results: BBC and Wikipedia.