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September 24th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
BY THE NUMBERS: Some of Labor’s back benchers are privately backing Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd for leader.
Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
LABOR MPs with their jobs on the line under Julia Gillard’s leadership are privately backing a return to the leadership for Kevin Rudd.
They’re being dubbed Julia’s martyrs – three dozen MPs whose political futures are on the chopping block.
While the Prime Minister has the strong backing of her Cabinet, there is growing support among backbenchers who risk losing their seats on the basis of current polling.
Senior ministers who are backing Ms Gillard’s leadership are also in the firing line. The Gillard Cabinet would be a political killing field on the basis of the polling with up to six ministers to lose their seats.
Ministers to go would include Treasurer Wayne Swan, Defence Minister Stephen Smith, Attorney-General Robert McClelland, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, Education Minister Peter Garrett and Trade Minister Craig Emerson.
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Special Minister of State Gary Gray and Childcare Minister Kate Ellis, who are not in Cabinet, are also in danger.
The only Queensland Cabinet minister left standing would be Kevin Rudd.
But the real action is among a growing number of backbenchers who never agreed with the leadership change. They want the Prime Minister to be given until Christmas to get a handle on the carbon tax and the asylum-seeker debate.
“The feeling in Caucus is that the PM should be given every opportunity. But the only real option in terms of a leadership change is Rudd,” a Labor frontbencher said.
“I wasn’t in favour of the original change. It smacked of panic, we were on the way back. Kevin Rudd has enormous capacity. He has flaws … If he came back I would be happy to work with him.”
Even some factional powerbrokers who installed Gillard are despondent over the fate of the government. Backbench MPs on a knife edge include NSW’s Michelle Rowland, Deb O’Neill, David Bradbury, Daryl Melham, John Murphy, Janelle Saffin and Mike Kelly.
But the Foreign Minister has declared he is a “very happy little Vegemite” staying where he is for now.
Speaking from Washington DC, Mr Rudd’s message came after World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick presented him with a jar of Vegemite during their talks on Friday.
Mr Zoellick brought the gift after Mr Rudd was last week the subject of a security scare flying into New York from Mexico for the United Nations General Assembly when security staff identified a jar of Vegemite in his bag as a potentially dangerous liquid.
“I’m a very happy little Vegemite being the Foreign Minister of Australia,” he told The Sunday Telegraph.
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