Sharpen the Knives

I see that Mark Langley..Lothar..Lathing..oh, you know, that guy who come second on Saturday night is taking a while to get some messages left on his answering machine by voters. Simon Crean’s position as Treasury spokesman is under threat. I can’t imagine why. I only saw him on TV once during the election and that was on Saturday night. He looked bloody terrible but I guess the facial muscle work needed to form the words “We wuz robbed” in a two second endless loop didn’t offer up his best profile. All sentences that have ‘Simon Crean’ in them also seem to have ‘his replacement’ or ..in line to take over from Crean’ as well. Except these two.

Mr Latham yesterday defenced the performance of his Treasury spokesman I don’t have any concerns on the way Mr Crean did his job.

Well, you bloody well should have. As a further disincentive to ever vote for Mark Whats-his-name, Gough Whitlam, in a rash moment when he believed anyone in Australia actually cared about his opinion, backed Mark again.

FORMER Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam — one of Mark Latham’s leading mentors — said yesterday he was disappointed with the election outcome but still held hope for the future. “The major issues, health and education, will still be around in three or six years,” Mr Whitlam, who held the Opposition Leader’s seat of Werriwa for 26 years, said at the launch of son Nicholas’s memoir, Still Standing. “There will be fewer trees in Tasmania and more muck in the Murray, but there is still hope.”

Or was that “There will be fewer ALP seats in Tasmania and more muck in Caucus, but there is still hope I hope Gough is still around at the next election so he can at last do something for Australia and support Mark Whats-his-face so hundreds of thousands more voters will turn away. ..Gough Whitlam — one of Mark Latham’s leading mentors How many Coalition votes did that statement create, I wonder.