Via News:
MARK Latham has indicated he will be joining Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party, saying an announcement would be made “soon”.
The former Labor leader was asked about rumours of his One Nation move on Ben Fordham’s 2GB program this afternoon.
He told Fordham to “watch this space” and said “you’re on the right path, you’re amazingly close”.
The rumour is Latham will be leader in NSW. Does this help ON or hinder Latham?
A little of both probably. I have always had a soft spot for Mark because he is a more traditional class warrior than many in the Labor movement. And his recent policy narrative has been solid in these terms. This will aid ON.
The issue I have with him today is he has gone the way of identity politics himself. Latham’s white identity politics combats what he (rightly) sees as the distortions of multicultural identity politics. That’s where he can join One Nation in a way that I can’t follow.
To my mind, the solution to the identity politics of the Fake Left is not a counter-movement of the same ilk with a different colour. The problem besetting policy and social equity is identity politics in its entirety.
The restoration of the left must come from stepping completely outside of racial and gender obsessions and returning to class and national consciousness.
