Kernot can't stop blaming other people

I'm sure people remember Cheryl Kernot - the former Democrat's leader who jumped ship to the ALP under the assumption she was going to be a Federal Minister. Her stated reason was that she truly believed in the palpable and policies of the ALP. That it came out later that she was having an affair with a prominent Labor frontbencher at the time might possibly have also had something to do with it. But I digress.

Following her loss of the seat of Dickson in 2001and subsequent entertaining meltdown on public television where she blamed everyone, possibly including Mossad, the KGB and the Gnomes of Zurich for her loss, she fled to the UK where she's employed in quasi-political left-wing job no doubt. She's decided to chime in on some of the tactics used by Lynton Crosby - former (successful) campaign director for Australia's Liberal party, now employed by the UK's Conservatives as their campaign director.

And what's Kernot's whining?

While the Westminster village has been preoccupied with the big picture of national issues, Crosby will have been orchestrating campaigns of personal attacks and innuendo in marginal constituencies: that the Labour sitting member is not a local, that they are more interested in seeking a place on the front bench, that they are soft on crime/ immigration/abortion.

Except Cheryl, while you were the member for Dickson there was that whole stamp duty claim on the Gold Coast as your principal residence. Not to mention your promotion straight to the front bench and later wanting a different portfolio. And soft on crime? She is an ex-democrat...