The long winter break could not have come sooner for Simon Crean who is having the toughest initiation of any Opposition Leader since John Howard was given that unenviable job in the mid-1980s.Labor hardheads appear to have already concluded that Crean is not going to lead the ALP to victory at the next election, but there is no viable alternative on the horizon.Factors combining against Crean include his own personality shortcomings, deep divisions between the left and the right wings of the pa…
