G'day Charles,
After seeing and hearing Lathams mutterings, one would start to think he was a tory planted in the ALP! He has certainly turned out to look, sound and smell very rodent like.

Surely this is just a man reverting to type and we shouldn't be surprised. In the end methinks it will do him more damage that the ALP.
By the way Charles, since the advent of "Razor" we see much less of you here. Is that a long term time and priority thing, or just something temporary?

Amazing isn't it, that all of Mark's problems came about because of other people.
If it's never his fault he should make a run for leadership so he can show the party how to win an election. Whoops, he's already done that.

Reminds me of that individual who after failing as CEO of GM was asked about his leadership by the media, and responded to the effect that his leadership was perfect, it was just that no one would follow him.

Victory has many fathers, defeat has but one.

I'd rather Latham didn't dump all over the ALP in public, though at least some of what he is saying is also being said by lots of other people. There's also obviously some projection going on, the Party is irrelevant? I think we know who is really on the way to irrelevance here.

However lets have some perspective, few governments have fallen when times were good, federally one has to go back to 1972. Latham was an unusual Federal leader by Australian standards, unconventional and full of ideas and prone to enthusiasm rather than being spin doctored. As an opposition leader from the ALP he was bound to come under heavy personal attack and did. He was also a compromise leader, never having an overwhelming momentum of support from within the party.

I suspect that but for the pancreatitis, which I know from observation is extremely debilitating, Latham would have learned and moved on from 2004 and at least policy wise would be looking a lot more interesting than Beazley is at the moment.