Mark Latham's wit and wisedom - Phwaw

Look out, toss-bags, Latham's back - National - smh.com.au

From the above article about Lathams new book:

Conga Line is revealing for what its choice of material tells us about Labor's fallen idol. Latham has a particular fixation with Richard Nixon and this shows in the frequency of entries for the Watergate president.

And under "Women" there are five entries, two belittling the female brain, one extolling a woman's place in the home and two reminding us of the origins of the phrases "damned whores" and "God's police", used by the feminist Anne Summers as the title of her watershed book.

I hope Julia Gillard is rushing out to buy a copy. (Maybe Mark sent her one as a gift.)

Mark himself is given a column in the SMH this morning, in which he says:

Even the title of this book is under attack. Writing in one of Rupert Murdoch's American rags earlier this year, the neo-conservative Christian commentator Paul Gray described "a conga line of suckholes" as "possibly the ugliest expression used by an Australian MP". Poor, prissy Paul had better not read the rest of this book. It has too many dinky-di, ridgy-didge Australian expressions for this politically correct petal to absorb.

It's probably not the ugliest expression ever used by an MP, at least in private. It would, however, have to be right up there with anything used by an Australian MP in Parliament.

A Latham Prime Ministership would have been rather like having Sir Les Patterson as leader.