Monday, July 21, 2008

Milne's facts entertaining, but his spin irrelevant

Glen Milne has a great piece in the OZ about devastating polling for the ALP in Gippsland.

His problem is that he breaks this story as having anything to do with Costello or Turnbull.

If Turnbull was leader the Petrol issue would not have gained prominence, and the ETS would be screaming ahead in 4th gear, if not overdrive. Both of those things would have pissed off the ute driving coal-miners of gippsland.

Costello is always so silent no-one knows where he stands so, why imply that Costello would have done better than Nelson.

That lead in the polls is totally down to Nelson, splitting from the ALP's agenda. Milne does not even mention him in the piece!!!