“Desperado, Why Don’t You Come To Your Senses?”

There are a few phrases that I have heard federal opposition front benchers proclaiming very frequently. They are:

• This is just an election stunt
• This is a sign of a desperate government
• They are just trying to earn political points

I find it funny because in pointing these apparent faults in the government they themselves are trying to earn political points from an elections stunt, which shows how desperate they are to win power.

Let’s not forget that the Labor party has suffered years of embarrassment from not just election defeats but leadership coups and a lot of in fighting. This is as close as they have ever come to winning an election, and the polls declare that a lot of people actually like Kevin Rudd. But be sure that they are as desperate, possibly even more so than the government, to win this fight.