October 11, 2004. The SMH's Alan Ramsey: "Latham's time will come. Believe it."
January 18, 2005. Latham resigns as Labor leader and quits politics. Believe it!
(via Tim)
Mark Latham the backbencher seemed to have some reasonable ideas. So did Mark Latham the shadow treasurer. New ideas. Different ideas. Some were even good ideas.
Mark Latham, Labor leader, had flashes of brilliance – but failed to present a convincing or coherent alternative at the October Election. But from then on he seemed simply clueless.
He showed just how clueless in recent weeks. And today he finally spat the dummy and resigned from both the Labor Party leadership and Parliament, slagging the media on the way out and leaving the party further up the crapper with two potential leaders out of the country (Rudd and Gillard)and a lame duck deputy (Evans) holding the reins.....
So who's gonna try and clean this fine mess up then, I wonder?
I hope they give the, errr, mop to Julia Gillard. Now that would be fun!
I've let some of your other right wing rants go, but I can't let this one go, if the guy is seriously ill. It's not about spitting the dummy, he seems to have a serious illness.
Howard, Blair and Bush occupy the centre right, which is difficult to shift them out of power unless they screw up. So Latham was the best hope Labour had of winning, because he's not Howard. Beazley and Crean are Howard lite, so that's not exactly going to work, is it?
Posted by: Tony Goodson | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 11:35 PM