Is She Being A Bit Melodramatic?

[ChillDoubt]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24090100

Jeezus Aitch, you'd thought she was talking about the loss of a child!

Or am I being too harsh?

[pixie373]

I wouldn't compare anything to the loss of a child. But if her career is her life and that important to her, i can imagine she would be quite distressed by the loss of it. It would take some adjustment.

[Gromit]

It's Australia, so no one gives a toss.

Unless you are unfortunate enough to live there.

Yawn

[bednobs]

you are being too harsh - untill you lose the leadership of a country, you can't really say how it makes you feel. Even then, you would only know how you feel about it, not her

[tamborine]

MThatcher left in tears.

[Psybbo]

Tambo, you took the words out of my fingers!

[PipinDorset]

With due respect, politics is a dirty business (arguably the dirtiest) and Ms Gillard would have had absolutely no negative feelings about the leader of the opposition losing their job. In fact, it would probably have been viewed as bonus, to make capital from.

"Those who live by the sword, die by the sword" "As ye sew, so shall ye reap" - look at the example of Winston Churchill in 1945? Having just steered Britain through a world war, he was booted out via the "winds of change".

If you're not prepared for loss, don't get into politics.

Life goes on, Ms Gillard, including yours - now, get on with it.

[boxtops]

Losing any job to which you are committed, and to which you've devoted years, is a big blow to one's self-esteem.

[bednobs]

tell me about it boxy ;)

[boxtops]

Indeed, bednobs :-)

[bednobs]

ps going through it all AGAIN now!

[tamborine]

too macho for you gromit ?

Its MCPs who cant hack women at the helm. Shes lucky she wasnt asassinated.

[ludwig]

// Or am I being too harsh? //

Yes. She's just being honest, which is what we all claim to want of out politicians, except when they are, we laugh at them, and vote for somebody else.

[naomi24]

I imagine she's devastated - and understandably.

[DTCwordfan]

She'll pick herself up quickly, scrape herself down and will probably find some cushy 'consultancy' number with a bank or a company such as Tony Blair's 'consultancy.'

Life must be tough.

[ChillDoubt]

Oh well, I guess I mis-read things. It's just that when someone talks about 'acute distress' I imagined it would be about a recently deceased relative or similar.
For my mind, if someone misses 'power' to that extent it's probably a good thing that they didn't retain it for very long.

[emmie]

politics is a dirty business, i think she would be extremely upset all the same, politics in Australia, like many of it's men are extremely sexist,
she by the way was born in Barry, Wales, so that is some leap from relatively small town girl to leader of a country you weren't born into.

it matters to the Australians, maybe not to some on here. I liked her, and think she will bounce back. Watch the youtube clip of her taking apart one of the male politicians over sexism, it's a class performance.

[ChillDoubt]

Doubtless she will bounce back emmie, on the board of some multi-national, getting ridiculous sums of money for consultancy.
She has said she won't return to politics, which is a good thing because if a similar fate should befall her she would in all probability die of broken heart.

[Hypognosis]

I hope she's not gifting the MCPs with further ammunition?

[Kramer21]

Racist bigot with a questionable political agenda and the most annoying nasal screechy voice i've ever had the misfortune to have heard. I'd like to say good riddance but these hand wringing right wingers seem to be like cockroaches coming back again and again no matter how many times you hit them with the "broom"

[Hypognosis]

So, if Gillard (Labour) was a right-winger, in your book, then how far-right are the Australian Conservatives?