{"id":5751,"date":"2011-09-15T23:20:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2011-09-15T23:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:32:47","slug":"julia-gillard-is-the-worst-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5751","title":{"rendered":"Julia Gillard is the worst prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s face it, although there are plenty of perks with being the leader of a nation state, it’s been a rather hellish year for the prime ministers, presidents and dictators of the world.\u00a0 You might be a world leader who’s dealing with a major natural disaster affecting your country like in Brazil or New Zealand.\u00a0 Have some sympathy for the Ireland and Greece who face a crumbling economy.\u00a0 If you’re a Middle Eastern or African despot, you’re probably currently dealing with or have already been ousted by an unprecedented uprising from your subjects.\u00a0 Obama has a soaring unemployment rate thats hurting his chances for re-election.\u00a0 In the UK, there has been rioting in the streets.\u00a0 It’s been a hell of a year.<\/p>\n

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England - Once proud country in ruins. Full of chavs, Perratons etc.<\/p><\/div>\n

By comparison, Australia looks positively rosey.\u00a0 We call ourselves ‘the lucky country’ and why not?\u00a0 We were just about the only Western country not to be adversely affected by the Global Financial Crisis.\u00a0 Bolstered by a mining boom, we enjoy record levels of prosperity.\u00a0 Our Australian dollar has been consistently stronger than the U.S dollar for some time now.\u00a0 Our weather is almost always perfect and even when we experienced flooding in Queensland earlier this year, we had less than twenty fatalities.\u00a0 By comparison, Brazil had over 500 flood fatalities this year.<\/p>\n

Our unemployment rate<\/a> is around 5%.\u00a0 Melbourne was recently nominated the most livable city in the world<\/a>.\u00a0 We have affordable health care, a prosperous middle class and low levels of crime.<\/p>\n

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America - High unemployment, crumbling economy<\/p><\/div>\n

So all things considered, how the hell does incumbent Prime Minster Julia Gillard have an approval rating of 32%, the lowest of any Prime Minister in Australia for seventeen years?\u00a0 The Labor Party in Australia is in such a poor state of affairs that if an election were to be called in Queensland, only Kevin Rudd<\/a> would retain his seat.\u00a0 In a bizarre turn of events, Gillard is proving to be so unpopular that there is talk that Rudd may be asked back by Labor to replace Gillard before another election is called.\u00a0 It may seem unlikely and appear to be political suicide for a party but the current reality is that if something significant doesn’t change soon then in the next election Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will become Australia’s fourth prime minister in six years.<\/p>\n

How is this possible?\u00a0 How can you experience such dismal approving ratings in a thriving country where people are generally disinterested in politics and therefore require something extraordinary to even register such a level of dislike? Why is there is such political instability in the highest office of government following a ten year reign for John Howard? Why do Labor suck so bad?<\/i><\/p>\n

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Australia - Still awesome. Pretty hard to screw it up.<\/p><\/div>\n

Don’t Play To Your Strengths At All!
\n<\/strong>For an atheist female immigrant who is in a long term relationship out of wedlock, Julia Gillard does an amazing job alienating people on progressive social issues.\u00a0 She hasn’t acted to legalise gay marriage and she has followed Tony Abbott and John Howard down the path of demonising asylum seekers by trying to dump them in processing centres in other countries.\u00a0 And failing repeatedly in doing so.<\/p>\n

Let Your Opponent Completely Dominate the Political Tone!
\n<\/strong>In Australia, the biggest and most controversial albatross around Gillard’s neck is a planned introduction of a carbon tax, primarily targeting big business, to make them environmentally accountable.\u00a0 While this is not a big deal in any other country in the world, Tony Abbott has successfully turned this in World War 3 in Australia, somehow convincing the general public that ‘working families’ will face financial ruin and that mining companies will leave in droves as a result.\u00a0 Basically Abbott ran a ‘Derp derp’ campaign and incredibly…it worked.<\/p>\n