Shades of 1972
Latham, all hat and no cattle, sets himself up for another backflip. Surely by now, voters are getting his measure.
I wonder if Gough had any input into his latest ‘We will bring the troops home by Christmas” line. Gough used just that line in 1972, notwithstanding the fact that troop withdrawal was already set in train by the Libs. Another of the great ALP lies of those days was born as even today there are plenty of ‘Maintain the Rage’ devotees who believe Gough brought the troops home.
With todays hounding by the press Latham will have to think a bit harder about policy on the fly and maybe run his ideas through Caucus first.
Shades of Gough and the punters are starting to notice.
Don’t think the troops aren’t reading the Australian press and wondering what’s the go. They shoudn’t be pawns in any debate but the media are quick to head that way. Watch them find a recalcitrant digger saying ‘I want to be home as well – we shoudn’t be here’ or better still, his wife complaining about his absence whilst holding a stressed toddler to appeal to every mother in Australia.
He is still all show and no substance. Downer made a big call when he said
…Mr Latham’s remarks were made without consulting his shadow cabinet and seemed to be influenced by Greens Senator Bob Brown.But it is the stupid type of statement Brown would make, but then Brown isn’t a contender for the Prime Ministerial crown. Latham is and it’s a worry.
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That one’s gonna come back to bite him on the arse. What an idiot.
Hi Dad, the beach looked good! Too bad when I get to go it will be full!
Re Latham and labor; all icing and no cake
Do people realise that a vote for Latham is also a vote for Crean as treasurer?
OHMYGOD!! I hadn’t thought of that.
“Simple Simon” will sink us into financial oblivion as did the World’s Worst Treasurer, Clock Collector Keating, and Commie Cairns before him.
Oh well, I guess we shouldn’t worry. Just think of all those really nice, friendly people in the Middle East we can borrow wads of money from when we run out.
Who was it said, “What… me worry?” Hmmm. I think it may have been Alfred E. Neuman. Funny ’bout that.
Some time after the Whitlam government’s financial disasters I asked my Company Accountant if Australia would ever recover from the mess into which Labor had led us.
Reply: “Not in our lifetime, nor in the lifetime of your children; the damage is too great. Perhaps in the liftime of your grandchildren”.
If Labor gets in I do not believe my grandchildren will live to see a return to the financial stability of the Menzies (or even Howard) eras.
Hint:
Mark Latham (wannabe PM):
Ask the soldiers on the ground in Baghdad whether they should come home by Christmas.
Unlike you, they have a sense of duty to their country.
The motto of the Royal Australian Regiment is “Duty First”
Unlike this loudmouthed dropkick, whose motto is “Me First”