A quiet chat between Labor comrades So Kevin Rudd is having dinner with colleagues when in walks the shamefully abusive Labor MP Steve Gibbons: ...when asked how his motion [to strip the Prime Minister of her powers to choose her own cabinet] was coming along, Gibbons replied with a finger pointed at Rudd: "It's f ... ed. Thanks to him. "What do you mean Steve?"a confused Rudd asked. Well because you've supported it, its now f ... ed. But Steve, its been my publicly stated position for 14 months, what did I do? "Well its now just completely f ... ed," Gibbons continued. You have such a pleasant way of expressing support for your motion, Steve. "You have completely f ... ed it," Gibbons repeated, to the growing amusement of the six other MPs at the table. Rudd concluded the exchange with his own sweet profanity. Steve, go f ... yourself! Such is the paranoia. But really, Gillard supporters should realise Rudd isn't their problem. Simon Benson: It was the worst week, of the worst year, of the worst parliament in the history of Australian parliaments... The bungled attempt by the government to pass new electoral funding laws that proposed to take $60 million from taxpayers and put it in to political parties campaign coffers is emblematic of just how out of touch the political class in Canberra is with the rest of the country... Gillard's own failure to walk away, even after it was dead, instead continuing to back it, is symbolic of how out of touch her leadership team is ... The well known Rudd supporter Anthony Byrne, the chair of the intelligence committee, fired the second missile on Monday when he attacked the government in parliament over funding cuts to the spy agencies. That too, was labelled a "disgrace." Then there was the Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus" spectacularly inept response to suggestions that Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints to its new $650 million office block... The PM couldn't buy a trick when it was revealed the NBN was exposing people to asbestos. And then news that a suspected terrorist wanted by Interpol had been living in low security detention centre in South Australia for a year as an asylum seeker.