Em Rusciano: Good riddance Mark Latham

ON behalf of the left wing, feminist, working mothers with mental heath issues who were relentlessly bullied, Em Rusciano would like to say good riddance to Latho.

Former Labor leader Mark Latham, gives his views of events for the cameras while working for TV program '60 Minutes', covering PM Gillard's visit to an old aged care centre while campaigning in Brisbane for upcoming 2010 federal election.

OPINION: The festering, sweaty, pus-filled boil that was sitting on the a*** end of the Australian media landscape has finally been lanced with the announcement of Mark Latham’s exit from the Australian Financial Review.

Mark has made a career out of picking on the vulnerable via his now infamous columns. Single mothers, working mothers, those with mental illness and victims of domestic violence have been attacked and don’t even get Mark started on those lefty feminists.

Perhaps his most unforgivable act has been his repeated and inexplicable harassment of Australian of the year Rosie Batty.

Despite his ill-informed and downright dangerous words and the protests of countless people the AFR continued to print him because clicks and hits y’all, clicks and hits.

Until today, with the Financial Review’s editor in chief Michael Stutchbury announcing that he would not be writing another column for them.

HUZZAH!

So what got to Mark? What finally made him stop? Well it would appear to be the discovery of his alleged side hobby by Buzzfeed, who claim he is running a secret twitter account. The account is yet to be verified, but seems to have forced him back into the hole from whence he came.

Let’s chat about this Twitter account shall we? The person who made it was super clever to not put up a profile picture, they just allowed the generic egg to represent them. No-one could link an egg to the Latho! What did they call this undercover account? Wait for it: @RealMarkLatham — BRILLIANT!

Here are some of the account’s “best” work:

@RosieBatty1 Australian of the Year dividing the nation on the basis of gender. You owe my wife, daughter and mother a massive apology.

— Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) July 27, 2015

Count the bourgeois Left feminists who have home-servants: @annabelcrabb Mia Freedman Tara Moss Leigh Sales Lisa Pryor Lisa Wilkinson etc

— Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) January 24, 2015

Hey Buzzfed dipstick, did u know Mary McGregor is world's highest ranking meathead who once put on a nappy and asked to suckle ALP staffer?

— Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) August 16, 2015

Stay classy @RealMarkLatham.

Now we don’t know for sure that the unverified accusations that Mark Latham was behind a hate-spewing twitter account was the reason he resigned from the Australian Financial Review and to be honest I don’t care. Whatever the reason is I for one, and I’m confident that I’m not alone, am very glad that his platform has been yanked from underneath him.

The thing that I have found myself wondering is; who exactly is team Latham? Will anyone be sad to see his written bile missing? I mean think about it, the conservatives would HATE him. Anyone who cares about victims of violence or mental illness would be furious with him and the Labor Party have completely disowned him. Let’s be real, even Celebrity Apprentice wouldn’t touch him at this point. Latham is officially the drunk, handsy uncle at the family BBQ that unites everyone in a common desire to order a cab.

Mark Latham drinking a beer.

So what now for Uncle Mark? I am almost hoping he decides to form his own political party and run for PM, Donald Trump style.

What would his platform be?

“White men with limited life experience in unity against vulnerable people and art-house cinema!”

Oh man. Maybe that’s why he resigned? Maybe he is in his tiny shed right now making “Latho for PM” signs.

*Shudders*

On behalf of the left wing, feminist, working mothers with mental heath issues that you relentlessly bullied I say good riddance to you Latho, good f***ing riddance.

Em Rusciano is a regular news.com.au columnist. You can follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.