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Former Labor leader Mark Latham has used his Financial Review column to attack Treasurer Wayne Swan’s parliamentary performance as “insipid”. Mr Latham said that prior to Swan’s 2005 budget reply “Swannie was hiding in his office, shaking like a leaf.”
Mr Swan is on record as saying that there is no way anyone could have known he was hiding there unless they were looking to see where he went instead of covering their eyes and counting, like you’re supposed to.
The Latham article shows that the defeated 2004 prime ministerial candidate won’t continue to be down without a fight.
Mr Latham was an early favourite to be prime minister four years ago before his campaign was flattened by a series of Liberal party ads depicting him as “L-plate Latham”. After leaving politics, Mr Latham finally had the time to get his Ps.
A long list of Labor luminaries have been attacked as weak or incompetent by Mr Latham, including Kim Beazley, Bob Carr, and Mark Latham’s pancreas. As Mr Latham fought testicular cancer in 2005, he accused his balls of having “all the attributes of a dog except loyalty.”
Mr Swan’s office told the Sydney Morning Herald that the Treasurer would not be responding to the attacks. The title of Mr Latham’s next column will be “bro-ok brok brok brok”. An excerpt obtained by The Daily Grind reads “What’s the matter Wayne, are you going to cry? Are you going to cry Wayne? Then why are you crying? Waaaaaayne. Waaaaaaaaaaaayne.”
