DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
She was Deputy PM in Rudd's cabinet and betrayed then deposed him with a Labor party coup as soon as he went 10 points behind in the polls. She then lost the Labor majority in the subsequent general election and had to cobble together a governing coalition with some independents who are varying degrees of mental. Despite a clear pre-election promise to the contrary she introduced a Carbon Tax that does less than zero for emissions control. She spent a few years watching an ever increasing number of asylum seekers/illegal immigrants arrive or drown on the way before she performed a spectacular backflip and reinstated John Howard's solution of shipping them off to a guano encrusted rock in the middle of the Pacific. One of the independents in the governing coalition is completely obsessed with legislation to control electronic gambling and that was the price of his support for the government. Gillard then betrayed him and cast him aside but preserved her 1 seat majority by coaxing rogue Liberal MP Peter "Slippery" Slipper in the Speaker's chair. Slipper proved to be an absolute catastrophe and embarrassment, eventually resigning last week over various sex and expenses scandals. There is also the Craig Thomson situation. Thomson is a typical Labor party MP: ex union hack of little brain but slavish loyalty. He distinguished himself by spending his low paid union members' subscriptions on hookers and jelly babies. Gillard has managed to drag out the investigation into this mess by four years and continues to protect him to preserve her wafer thin majority.
In short, she is a fucking disgrace who has easily displaced Billy McMahon as the worst ever Australian PM and she will be absolutely destroyed in the 2013 election.
