Leadership challenge

This post is a crosspost from Jayeless, and can be read in its original location here.

I got home tonight, ate dinner, watched the end of Law and Order, and was about to drift off to sleep in front of the TV when I heard Sandra Sully’s urgent voice: “Julia Gillard is challenging for the leadership of the Labor Party…”

Clearly I woke up and watched. It’s just, what happened I did not expect this at all. This is exciting. I am excited. I would undoubtedly be more excited if the leadership of the country were being decided in a way that involved ordinary people in any way whatsoever, but it’s still quite an event.

It’s not that I think it will change the policies of the Labor Party very much if at all — I have seen no evidence so far that Gillard has any better ideas than the horror of Rudd’s (probably because until today, she was his loyal sidekick. I guess that was just a ruse, eh.), so it doesn’t really matter to me personally who wins.

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