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Labor has today announced a Vietnamese-Australian candidate for a heavily Vietnamese seat, that they lost to a Vietnamese independent in 2022, because they decided against pre-selecting someone from the actual area in that hope that the poor immigrant voters would mindlessly elect a dodgy Former Premier who has nothing to do with them.
After spending the last 3 years on a knife’s edge as the Prime Minister with only a two seat majority, Anthony Albanese has today introduced Tu Le as his party’s candidate for the once locked and safe western Sydney Labor seat of Fowler.
Tu Le was initially expected to be chosen for the 2022 election, but instead factional divisions within the party meant that the pre-selection process was outranked by Labor’s powerbrokers.
Instead, they thought the American-Australian Labor floater, Kristina Keneally, was a perfectly suitable candidate for a highly diverse seat of predominantly non-English speaking blue collar voters.
After twenty years bouncing between NSW State Parliament, media jobs, and the Federal Upper House, Kristina Keneally could be the personification of the political establishment.
It was made worse for Labor by the fact that Anthony Albanese clearly didn’t want her there.
However, to appease the near indecipherable different factions within the increasingly neoliberal Labor Party, Albanese had to defend the parachuting through clenched teeth.
Luckily for Albanese, and the low socio-economic voters, this comically arrogant Labor mindfart was ultimately unsuccessful.
Kenneally was unable to use the multicultural working class enclave as a springboard into Canberra, where she would inevitably be gunning for leadership because that’s what these types of people feel they are born for.
Instead, she lost to the eccentric Independent challenger Dai “The Vietnamese Bob Katter” Le – who is actually a local resident.
However, 2025 will be different. It seems that there is water under the bridge over this captain’s pick.
Now it’s the household name Dai Le versus the new Labor candidate Tu Le – who has to pretend she wasn’t betrayed by her party 4 years earlier. Who will win? Will it be the one that stepped up when the major party took advantage of Fowler’s voters, or will it be the one who now represents that party that has been in power for the entire duration of our cruel cost-of-living crisis.
