Albo Labor is so bad it’s even dragging down the government

There are two writers whose analysis I try to almost always read – Aaron Patrick in the Fin and Troy Bramston in the Oz.  This does not mean I always agree with their efforts, but they usually offer quality insights.

Separately, Patrick and Bramston have been writing about the issues within the Federal parliamentary Labor Party. Their views — put as briefly as possible — are that the ALP’s problems are the policies (per Patrick) or the leader (Bramston).

They are both right. Both the ALP leader and the ALP’s policies are crap. Unimaginative, recycled, repeatedly failed. 

But bad leadership and bad policies are not the core problem. They are a symptom. The core problem is that the Federal Parliamentary party is…