Looks like Kevin Rudd's Party, the ALP, will ditch him as Prime Minister today in favor of his deputy PM, giving Australia its first female Prime Minister.
To quote the Melbourne Age: Key Labor figures in Kevin Rudd's home state of Queensland say Julia Gillard will oust Prime Minister Kevin Rudd when Labor's caucus meets later this morning.
Another report said that basically, Rudd had gradually squandered his internal support as his poll numbers went south, saying "two months after Rudd's dive in the polls, dragging Labor's support down with him, his supporters have waited, week after week, to see the Prime Minister change gear, to come up with new ideas and a new political strategy. All they have got is more of the same — the same self-satisfied verbosity, the same condescending private responses even to his ministers, the same plodding media strategy that all too often reduced him to little more than a run-of-the-mill baby-cuddling backyard pollie."
Then he managed to really piss off his talented deputy, Julia Gillard, by quietly checking on whether she had told Rudd the truth when she said she wasn't actively seeking his overthrow. Faced with an internal collapse of support, Gillard finally threw her hat into the ring and is set to become the first woman PM of Australia.
Rudd doesn't look like Gordon Brown but this comment paints a strong resemblance: "Many have become convinced that he is too unimaginative and slow-footed to continue in the job, that he has misunderstood how to assume the authority of the prime ministerial office, and that he is simply incapable of taking and absorbing personally challenging advice from senior colleagues."