Recipe for trouble

Dennis Atkins says Julia Gillard cannot afford to drop her carbon dioxide tax, even though it’s loathed by retired Liberal voters:

One veteran Liberal activist reports that the carbon tax is friendless among extremely old party members.

“I’ve been out door-knocking our people in one of the state electorates where we’ve got a pre-selection under way and anyone over 80 hates the idea,” said the party figure. “And the older they are, the more they hate it.”