Rudd’s declared it inevitable that Australia will become a republic but <irony>heavy-weight Liberals</irony> have struck back bagging the 2020 a left-wing love-in and pledging their allegiance to the Queen. Lizzie will be distinctly underwhelmed by the declarations of former Foreign Minister Downer and enfant terrible Chris Pyne and will probably know that Charlie’s inheritance will soon shrink. The Lib’s continue to struggle to identify a strategy for responding to Rudd however whatever it is, Downer’s surely not part of it. Stripped of his Ministerial warrant, Downer looks and sounds precisely what he is, an anachronism - if he’s to lead the defence of the realm, the Monarchists are truly stuffed.
Tags: australia, republicanism
