Guest Essay by Eric Worrall
Hard Left über Green Former Aussie PM Kevin Rudd has asked the Australian Government to support his bid for the job of United Nations Secretary General. The bid has strong support from the Australian Left. Prominent Former Politician Bronwyn Bishop explains why Rudd is the right man for the job.
Rudd would destroy the UN from within: Bernardi
Former speaker Bronwyn Bishop told Sky there was only one reason to nominate him.
“If you have got a problem with the United Nations and you really want to see its powers lessened, send Kevin,” Mrs Bishop said.
In February, Liberal Cory Bernardi told Foreign Minister Julie Bishop that the only reason to do it would be to destroy the UN from within.
Mrs Bishop will ask Cabinet today to decide on his nomination — if it agrees there would be no extra resources to campaign for him.
But Mr Baird says it should be all or nothing as with former political rivals in New Zealand.
“If it is good enough for John Key to support strongly Helen Clark for the position — then we should also nominate Kevin and do so enthusiastically. Let’s endorse him and wish him our best from the whole of Australia,” Mr Baird said.
He argued Mr Rudd should get the support of the Australian mission at the UN in New York and some lobbying with the Security Council members.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/kevin-rudd-cabinet-to-decide-on-un-top-job/7667250
Rudd in my opinion has an unspeakable talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. In the words of former political colleague and Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett;
In an extract from the memoir, read out by interviewer Melissa Doyle, Garrett wrote supporting Kevin Rudd was “certainly the biggest” mistake he made in his political career.
He didn’t back down from that position in the interview.
“I’ve been particularly strong in this book about leadership and Rudd’s leadership and I think it needed to be said,” Garrett said.
“I’m critical of him, that’s true, very critical, but I think for good reason.”
Another of his criticisms is that Mr Rudd jeopardised the safety of Australia.
“It’s a big call, but I stand by it,” Garrett said. He added Mr Rudd treated people with “an enormous amount of contempt” and made “the business of the country almost ungovernable”.
When pushed on what danger he feared Mr Rudd posed, Garrett said the former PM was “unpredictable” and he didn’t know what he “could or would do”.
Other political figures are also scathing – though Rudd draws some surprising support;
Some conservative MPs and ministers are opposed to Mr Rudd being nominated.
“This guy did his best to ruin our country,” South Australian MP Tony Pasin said in April. “That we would think about imposing him on the rest of the world beggars belief.”
But he has received public endorsements from prominent figures including UK economist Lord Nicholas Stern and former East Timor president and Nobel prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta.
My only reservation about advocating Kevin Rudd is the remote possibility he might start World War Three. But the man’s ability to alienate his strongest supporters, to cause disunity where formerly there was harmony, to offend, to divide, to break the unbreakable, is a gift to the world. The damage such a person would do to the UN in my opinion would likely be irreparable.
So for once I’m in total agreement with Australia’s far left – Kevin Rudd for UN Secretary General. Make sure you write your MP or Congressman to express your support.
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Ahaha no seriously watch the dark horse come in from behind the wings here. Mr Teflon himself Tony Blair will be the next UN leader, he has been groomed for the job since leaving as PM here in the UK.
Some of Kevin Rudd’s supreme accomplishments:
Decided to take on the entire Australian mining industry single handedly by introducing, without discussion or consultation, major increases in mining taxes unilaterally across all minerals, without listening to either his fellow ministers, Departmental advice, mining representatives, or even staunch critics within his own party. It was nationalism at its finest, to give back to the people ‘what was theirs’. Needless to say, not only didn’t he get what he wanted, but was also excluded from all discussions on the matter and fired from being Prime Minister by his own colleagues.
Single-handedly decided to revoke almost all previous refugee measures, against the advice of his colleagues, and his own Departmental advice, including shutting down regional processing centres, so as to allow an army of lawyers and criminal people smugglers to get obscenely rich when dealing with all the mess. A few years later, he saw the light and decided, after literally billions of wasted dollars and several thousand deaths of boat people at sea, to go back to exactly the measures that were in place before.
Anyone who knows him well thinks the same thing, he isn’t fit for any senior political role.
You are being kind.
Most Australians I know would not employ him to collect rubbish on the side of the road.
KRudd will be out to ratf%&k the Chinese to get them back for Coopenagen.
The guy is a narcissistic, vengefull, self important little under achiever. He was tossed out of office by his own party who then went on the comlletely self destruct and grovelled to have him back ( he was whiteanting hem all the time as it happens) then got tossed out by the people. He had a reputation as a control freak in his tenure as a state public servant in Queensland and did not exactly grow in the job as PM.
The leftards in Oz are backing him just to watch the Turnbull government squirm as their patriotic nuts are squeezed hard in the vice formed bythe leftard msm one the one hand and their own good sense on the other.
I’ll go with Helen Clark from New Zealand any day.
In my opinion, he was the worst prime minister Australia ever had. That is until Gillard stabbed him in the back and proved herself worse. Then, of course Rudd stabbed her in the back and demonstrated that anything she could mess up, he could mess up more.
Incredible that now he wants us to put him in charge of the UN and repeat the exercise there.
They call themselves The Australian Labor Party, but for 40 or so years Marxists have dominated in the party. Kevin Rudd was an enigma. He was never one of the ALP gang, he was a push on his own. And he was relatively wealthy, to boot, the wealth generated by himself and his wife.
His success started with a slot on breakfast TV, with affable Joe Hockey of the Liberal (Conservative in OZ) Party, which gave him a lot of public recognition. In the lead to the 2007 election the usual suspects, the real party leaders, were keeping a low profile, because they could see that Kevin Rudd was winning the election for them single handed. But it was always obvious to me that as far as their policies were concerned Kevin Rudd’s use by date was the day after the election.
However his phenomenal popularity rating in the electorate made it impossible for them to just dump him. But he was an outsider, a Queenslander to boot, and the southerners have never forgiven Queensland for Joh Bjelke Petersen, who as premier tackled the Marxists head on and kept them at bay for 20 years. The personal traits everybody condemns were the only way Kevin Rudd could have managed that crowd anyway. However they eventually set him up and cut him down on the issue of global warming. Downright evil it was. He never forgave them.
I didn’t regard KR as badly as others do, the worst thing about him was the company he kept. But he must not be nominated for the UN job. If Malcolm Turnbull does nominate him, his motive would have to be a crash through or crash test of his leadership. I’m hoping for a better world under the Turnbull government, but if he nominates KR, I will condemn him.
Pretty much sums up the voxpop of the modern generation with Kevin as their Facebook Friend and they were all devastated when his colleagues unfriended him. Sound familiar with the Bernie Sanders brigade? They are the very model of a modern generation-
I agree with @Frosty above. It is difficult to describe Rudd as hard Left. But he is a true believer in man-made catastrophic climate change.
And, like the climate, it is hard to predict which direction the United Nations would head if he became the Secretary-General. Certainly past performance would lead us to predict a top-down approach and ultimately a lack of communication between the S-G and the main organs of the UN. But whether this would lead to collapse or just anarchy is anybody’s guess.
The UN has a life of its own to provide patronage for well-connected, ambitious and educated individuals from the Third World — if they are leftists. Rudd by himself will not be able to shut down that gravy train. All he will manage to do is make himself as despised in the Third World as he is in Australia.
Bronwyn Bishop’s endorsement pretty much sums it up his character.
If anyone needs more confirmation that UN and Green Agenda are one…
The UN is a degenerate and incapable self-serving organisation but with Kevin Rudd at its head it would be much worse.
Rudd is a narcissistic, spiteful, egotistic little waste of space. He was dismissed by the Labour Party who turned to Julia Gillard. She tanked and Rudd returned and lost an election for Labour. He is a control freak, self important and of limited intellect.
Put that way he sounds like he would fit into the UN well.
Yes, there are so many countries where UN has not introduced cholera, yet.
That comment should generate multiple examples of Irritable Plibersek/Wong/Shorten/Gillard/Bishop Syndrome!
Sounds like he is the equal of Malcolm Turnbull, which is why he would want to have him nominated.
His application to a position where he could do even more damage! Go help us all.
Personally I love the idea of electing a Labrador as next UN General-Secretary, couldn’t we all campaign for Kristina Kennealey’s dog instead..?
Dog-gonnit that´s a good idea.
Have you ever noticed that Mr. Rudd is one of those little prigs that looks like he is about 68 years old and is therefore thought to be wise and distinguished? He is 58. When he was PM the first time, he looked 68 but was actually 50. He has spent most of his life sucking off the government. The only reason I can think of for him being appointed to the UN secretary general job is that it would block the appointment of the current US president. Why should the Australian government support his appointment? They must have some kind of a death wish.
I am under the impression that citizens of the five permanenant members (veto powers) of the UN Security Council, specifically Obama, are not eligible for Secretary General (or is it just tradition?).
Rudd should be sent to the Middle East to sort out ISIS armed with a yamuka and a side of bacon.
If the job on offer was to clean the toilets, Kevni would be a good candidate. So long as he would be supervised.
The real problem here is that the UN and Kevin Rudd probably deserve each other and that is a sick, vomit inducing joke!
If you project the ruination of the UN, in the same way as he achieved in Australia, you have to ask an important question – At What Cost?
He managed to blow all of Australia’s healthy surplus in just a few months then plunge us into trajectory of spiralling debt, even before the letters GFC had been first uttered. From there it only got worse and we are still a long way from recovering. If you want ruination Rudd-style, where will all the money to fund the demise have to come from?
Surely Australia can find a better alternative than KRudd. He is not fit to run a school tuck shop.
He is the perfect choice.
Nobody in Australia listened to him to begin with.
Nobody in Australia listens to the UN.
Put them both together and we get a time management tool.
We get to ignore both, for the price and time usage of 1.
Kevvy baby is a control freak. The UN are control freaks-look at some of the sovereignty destroying treaties they have emotionally blackmailed us in to- Agenda 2030/ Agenda 21, Lima Declaration etc.It would be great if Rudd annoys the hell out of the UN, ideally making it implode or make fatal errors.
He is the perfect choice.
Nobody in Australia listened to him to begin with.
Nobody in Australia listens to the UN.
Put them both together and we get a time management tool.
We get to ignore both, for the price and time usage of 1.
I look forward to his first meeting with the Chinese, those he called ratf**kers …
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11683812
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has decided not to nominate former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for the role of United Nations Secretary General.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark is one of 12 declared candidates seeking the post and is one of the leading women candidates.
Turnbull made the announcement today after cabinet was reportedly split over it yesterday and left the decision to him.
Speaking to reporters in Sydney, Turnbull said the decision had nothing to do with Rudd’s Labor party.
“Nothing at all.”
“This is judgment about Mr Rudd’s suitability for that particular role.
“The threshold question here when the Australian Government nominates the person for a job, particularly an international job like this, is do we believe the person…is well suited for that position.
“My judgment is that Mr Rudd is not.”
saw that too.
Schadenfreude!
Go Helen…
I wouldnt give that sociopath bum a job moping out toilets.
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Hard Left über Green Former Aussie PM Kevin Rudd
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Nonsense, Rudd is not hard left or uber Green. He belongs to the right wing faction of the Labor party, and was replaced as leader by Julia Gillard (who IS hard left) with the help of her union mates. Seriously, do some research before hitting ‘post’ on your latest word salad.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/309769/'shocked'-rudd-claims-pm-previously-backed-un-bid
Mr Rudd made a last-minute dash to Sydney yesterday hoping to persuade Mr Turnbull to nominate him as secretary-general, but when he arrived the Prime Minister called him to say the government would not be backing him.
Mr Turnbull said the former Labor Prime Minister was “not suited” to the role.
He of course has no chance. The fact that St Malcolm would consider him suitable is laughable. The Labor party today is campaigning for Keneally’s Labrador (with some justification) – what would competing bidders do? What would China make of him having called them ratf***ers in 2009?
The reasons I supported it:
– the UNSSR is at war with Oz for the temerity to defend its borders (very unfashionable). The hilarity of watching Kevin-Kevin Rudd lecture of about the children HE detained would be worth all the negatives
– blowing up his immense family fortune in campaigning, only to get less votes than Oz for the FIFA World Cup (at least then we got ONE vote).