Biter, bit; back-stabbing; politics; and other games of dishonour
Three years ago Julia Gillard treacherously ousted her colleague, Kevin Rudd, as leader of Australia's Labor [sic] Party and prime minister.
Three years later, she's the one falling on the sword following a winner-takes-all battle, which started after he said he wouldn't contest the leadership…and then did just that.
It is a measure of his unpopularity [with senior party officials] that a third of Julia Gillard's ministry resigned rather than serve under him
. But would he really want them anyway?
I have no particular axe to grind with either Gillard or Rudd, since their political machinations are irrelevant to me. But looking at this from the other side of the world, it just seems like they're as bad as each other.