Fairfax once again trumpeting the virtues of the working class who none of their staff or readership have ever met.
Union bully Bill Shorten has done back room deals to usurp labour preselection from the sitting labour candidate in the Melbourne seat of Maribyrnong. And he's lauched his election with the help of the surviving miners from 60 minutes.
Whatever. It's like the Simpsons where fictional Billy get's trapped down a well. 'That Billy's a hero' says Homer. 'But he fell down a well, Dad. How does that make him a hero?', asks Lisa. 'Well that's more than you did!' is the response.
Makes about as much sense as trying to say that Rudd controls the unions when their numbers are strengthening in the ALP's parliamentary ranks all the time. I guess there's no future in being a union boss any more because Howard has changed the workplace culture so they might as will look for a different line of work, and a job as an ALP MP gives them just as many outlets for their talents for sleazy deals, swearing and sexism.
