Imbroglio should end

The small group of MPs who persuaded the ALP caucus to replace Kevin Rudd with Julia Gillard as Prime Minister now have the responsibility and opportunity to correct their mistake.

Removing Kevin Rudd, apparently because he was too much of a micro manager and-or acted too independently of unions, was a serious error of judgement not just of the initiators but of the majority of the ALP caucus.

Rudd had solid popular support at the time (around 70 per cent).

Was this the only way to deal with a deficient management style of a successful Labor leader, no matter how irritating to some?

Of course the plotters did not foresee or did not consider the consequences of their actions in that their new preferred leader could and would be portrayed as not trustworthy on account of perceived implicitness, surely a further mistake on their part.

Ms Gillard performed very well but had to carry the burden of those actions.

In the coming days, the plotters have the opportunity to correct their mistakes.

They should end the imbroglio.

Email, 18 Jun 2013

Klaas Woldring, Pearl Beach