Drawing on her extensive network of unemployed layabouts, ie former Labor party high-flyers, oh alright, medium-flyers to flightless dodos, DH has pieced together the inside story on Rudd's downfall, and sadly for conspiracy theorists, it's pretty much the accepted view.
- Rudd had no factional backing. So he had no fallback once his personal popularity inevitably dived.
- His micromanaging ways created a bottleneck in his office , slowed down government business, and drove public servants to distraction
- Public servants used to wait for him to go on holiday or out of the country so they cd send stuff to Julia Gillard's office
- It's not cool to pare back the public service and then goad them to work harder
- Rudd relied too much on young staffers and had no grizzled political warhorses on his shoulder to keep it real
- Much as DH would like to blame Mark Arbib, it's not his fault. The downfall was
cross-factionally engineered
BTW, If you only see one political spoof this year, it has to be Rudd's Downfall
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