Current Labor leader Rebecca White must take responsibility for the failures of the Tasmanian Labor Party and stand down as Labor Leader.
Ms White claims today’s Federal intervention is a reset, but these words ring hollow if she refuses to accept responsibility and remains as Leader.
Leadership starts from the top and Ms White’s promises to ‘unite the party’ and ‘end the infighting’ are in tatters.
She has proven that she is powerless to stop Tasmanian Labor’s shambolic internal civil war.
Now, Federal Labor has appointed a nine-person committee to try to fix the mess that Ms White proclaimed she’d fix.
Under Ms White’s leadership, Labor has sunk to extraordinary lows – with today’s hostile mainland takeover simply the latest in a long line of failures.
At the last two elections, Ms White has led Labor to their fourth-worst (2018), and second-worst (2021) results in their history.
Dr Bastian Seidel quit politics and said he could not work in the “toxic environment” under Rebecca White.
Ben McGregor threatened to sue Ms White, and major trade unions have disaffiliated from Labor.
That’s the record. They’re the facts.
Ms White describing her party as ‘not at its best’ last year is the understatement of the century.
She has completely lost control of her bitterly-divided party only a year after becoming leader for the second time, after the inglorious resignation of David O’Byrne.
Rebecca White cannot govern her own party, meaning there’s no way she can govern Tasmania - so she should just end the sham, and resign.
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