Mark Latham election 2010

Mark Latham has been taking an interest in the present election on behalf of Channel Nine, and getting alternately savaged and sneered at by the rest of the bourgeois media, particularly for giving the PM a hard time. (The latter is purely illusory, of course. Julia Gillard is an old hand and can eat that kind of “tough encounter” for breakfast.)

There are a number of reasons for the unfriendly attitude of the non-channel-nine part of the capitalist media to Mr Latham but one you might not have thought of could be his penchant for saying unkind things about capitalism when he was an MP.