Julia Gillard has just been voted in (by the party not the people) as the new Prime Minister of Australia in a political coup over Kevin Rudd. It's worth emphasising that we should care more about policy than personality, and so it seems bizarre that a new figurehead makes much of a difference to the view the Australian people will have of this government.
Now to ignore my own advice and get personal, I've always wondered why Julia Gillard comes across as cold and sends a shiver up my spine. Of course it might stem back to that infamous photo of her opening her life and home to a newspaper reporter and what was revealed was a stark, cold, empty kitchen.
But I think I've worked it out.
Many Australians are familiar with the comparison between Kevin Rudd and Mr Sheen.
But you heard it here first;
Julia Gillard is Tilda Swinton as the White Witch from The Chronicles of Narnia.
Isn't Tilda Swinton a natural redhead?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm pretty sure she is. But I thought perhaps it was the association with the White Witch that was sending the shiver up the spine.
ReplyDeleteThe similarities don't stop with the looks, I'd bet...
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