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Issue No. 137 | 24 May 2002 |
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An Aussie Icon
Interview: Just Done It? Tribute: Lest We Forget History: Solidarity Forever Technology: Unblocking the Superhighway International: Gloves Off Unions: Out Of Work Review: Strange Business Poetry: The Lawyer's Lament Satire: Government Mourns Loss Of Last Anzac
The Soapbox The Locker Room Bosswatch Postcard Week in Review
 Dancing With Trotsky? Not Bloody Likely.Your Tools Page is DownBig Dave FosterGive Us a Click!Will the Real Mark Latham Please Stand Up?Unified LabourThe Last SurvivorNot Hate Mail
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Letters to the Editor Will the Real Mark Latham Please Stand Up?
Dear Sir, While much of Mark Lathams pontifications have much validity, there is not an ounce of originality within them. His latest scribble "A New Agenda for Political and Industrial Labour.", is nothing more than a hastily reheated political fast food , gorged down and then publicly regurgitated as a wonder food for the masses , some of resembling a swill for swine and the rest smelling of rotting corpses in the closet. What revelations he continues to surprise us with, who except Mark would have observed the party continually raking over old debates, and its determination not to change its style of politics, we certainly have a seer of quantity here, if not quality. Does mark have visions of implementing some innovative "Blarisms" , well perhaps , some brain food or a good makeover may be in order , including the projection , of the bile of vile , as he condemns his enemies , at least his new role model , "Simon of Cyrene" . Oh! I am a wag; it is "Simon of ACTU" His continued mantra of "New", this, and "New", that, and "New", the other are nothing but the sound of a rasping Bastard File attempting to scratch into a tempered electorate. At least Simon has made the effort to discard his "bovver boy", persona, and if his budget response is any example, he has almost succeeded, and I for one am considering becoming a sheep again. As for some of his philosophies on organised labour, they scare the living daylights out of me , and I personally have and continue to advocate the reform of corrupt trade unions , for the benefit of not only their members , but the nation. His rejection of the blue collar worker surprises me. Is not his electorate composed of a great number of these disadvantaged Australians? But it is true that the party must broaden its base and continually monitor the changing socio-economic status of the electorate, particularly in marginal seats such as Lindsay in Western Sydney.
His pseudo political courage is nothing other than the display of a camp follower who has just missed the Camel Train, and now protesteth his commitment in the hope that they will stop and let him on board, too late Comrade, perpetual motion is just that, "Perpetual". To make Mark Latham's desertion of this constituency clear he says that the Labor Party "needs to find new issues, new constituencies and new ideas on which to campaign". But of course, the old adage "That one mans rubbish is another mans treasure ", applies also here, and Mark has publicised some excellent ideas from overseas. >From the "UK", is the modernising of the party and a more equitable representation basis for members? >From all right wing socialists, that socialism should not interfere with capitalist production or any other machination of which the lowest common denominator is socialise the debt and privatise the profit. He still kids himself that free trade is better for the people? Rather than continue with a litany of negative comparisons, I can sum it up in one positive, If Mark could just retract his remarks about Tony Staley. He would make an excellent cabinet Minister. "In John Howard's government" Tom Collins
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