Well something has spooked your comrades, they are presently looking at giving Prime Minister (Kevin the lemon) the puntYou forgot to say "red under the bed" since that also rhymes and therefore apparently trumps reasoned argument.
The irony is that Rudd's almost certain replacement is a traditional left-wing Labourite. If she drops the mining tax it will be expediency to prevent further FUD from vested interest and to try to cling to power.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1