Kevin Rudd should be kidnapped and sent to Albania

[nero_bolt]

FORMER Labor leader Mark Latham says Kevin Rudd should be kidnapped and sent to Albania because he is destabilising the Gillard Government.

Mr Latham said that Mr Rudd had been on a three-year "jihad of revenge'' against PM Julia Gillard and his high profile appearances this week were distracting attention from the Government's messages.

"If he truly loved the Labor Party right now the best thing he could do is disappear, get out of the media eye,'' he told ABC Radio National this morning.

I'd kidnap Kevin Rudd, put him on a boat and send him to Albania,'' he said.

"And put a sign on the box `do not return until the 15th of September' (the day after the federal election). That's the one thing I'd do to help Labor's chances.''

Mr Latham, who lost the 2004 election to John Howard and then resigned the Labor leadership, also took aim at pro-Rudd MPs Joel Fitzgibbon, Allan Griffin and Daryl Melham for doing "bizarre'' media stunts this week.

Mr Latham said that Mr Fitzgibbon's mocking of speaking notes for MPs provided by Ms Gillard's office was the cheapest shot in politics.

Can you imagine (former PM) Paul Keating...having to put up with a goose like Joel Fitzgibbon and that little stunt of his earlier this week,'' he said.

"Anyone at any time can come out and have a go at the speaking notes issued by the leader's office.''

"Keating would have strangled him, throttled him.''

Mr Latham said that the Labor caucus had become ungovernable because the stable factional system of the 1980s had broken down and the party was now ruled by "a loose federation of sub factional war lords''.

"You've got a political party that is now descending into anarchy,'' he said.

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[not_an_eloi]

c'mon, nlp are already measurin' abbott up, for cement boots.

[lakeland27]

c'mon, nlp are already measurin' abbott up, for cement boots.

so use him for the hatchet job , and replace him with the fake statesman type ?

i think they'll wait until he sinks and then bring mal in. copy old labor tactics.

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[lakeedge]

The destruction of the labor party & its values.

Rudd/Gillard/Swan have presided over a time in Australians history when Labor was ushered in with a cracking mandate.

Less then 18 months into the Labor gov, very disturbing whispers started leaking out about the chaos & dysfunction of Rudd.

Gillard knifed him, said a good gov had lost it's way (this being another lie because she was deputy PM & did nothing beforehand, she wanted to top job)  then proceeded to destroy everything Labor had built up since the Hawke & Keating era.

She re regulated anything that stood still, ripped apart border security & wasted billions & allowed the unions back into cabinet to instruct policy. These failures alone should have seen her off but the gutlessness of her party stood by & watched her do it.

The many failures of this Labor party is etched deep into the minds of Australians & it will be decades before Labor can gain their trust again.

So yes, she has brought about the destruction facing Labor on Sept 14th.