Rudd’s class war leave is hogwash Icon - Comments 882 Comments | Permalink Piers Akerman Blog Icon Arrow Piers Akerman Saturday, August 24, 2013 (11:01pm) KEVIN Rudd is struggling to connect to Labor’s traditional blue-collar base with a blatant appeal to hate-filled class warfare not seen in Australia since the pre-Whitlam days and laid to rest under Bob Hawke. “I have never believed in class warfare,’’ Rudd said at the National Press Club in July during the first major speech of this turgid election campaign. “I think some of the politics of class warfare, however exaggerated or not exaggerated, have not served us well in the past,’’ he intoned. Just last Wednesday, he adopted his folksy guise and proclaimed: “Mate, I’ve never been one that’s engaged in class warfare and whether it is the ol’ Twiggster or whether it’s Gina, I don’t care. I am about Australia. I’m about whoever wants to push the country forward and invest and be confident in the country’s future, and get out there and grow the economy.’’ It was his goal, he said, to bring about a more productive relationship between Labor and business and end the days of so-called class warfare. Like many of his campaign statements, it was hogwash.
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