Australian politics is all aflutter at the resignation of Kevin Rudd as Foreign Minister. What happens now? Will he challenge Julia Gillard for the job of Prime Minister? Here’s tomorrow’s leader from our sister magazine Spectator Australia (edited by Tom Switzer) for CoffeeHousers’ benefit:
It’s an intricate two-step, but one false move now spells death. As Kevin Rudd surprises everyone, including his own supporters, with his adroit middle-of-the-night resignation in Washington DC, seeking the ideal strategic moment to knife his nemesis, the Prime Minister ducks and weaves hoping she won’t shoot herself in the foot (again).
‘The simple truth is that I cannot continue to serve as Foreign Minister if I do not have the Prime Minister’s support,’ said Mr Rudd, hilariously eschewing a ‘stealth attack on a sitting Prime Minister’ and twisting events to appear decisive and ‘honest’ while fraudulently painting himself as the aggrieved and innocent party (‘the Australian people want an end to this soap opera’).
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