ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles barely contained his laughter at a press conference this morning in Canberra where he was asked by The Advocate if parachuting Kristina Keneally into Fowler was a pretty dumb fuck thing to do in hindsight.
“Well, when you say it out loud,” he said.
“Parachuting a rich person from the Northern Beaches into the Division of Fowler, someone who didn’t have any roots or any real connection to the area, and then expecting the people of South West Sydney to vote for them was very fucking arsey [laughs] Fuck me, we really were getting high on our own farts when we came up with that [laughs] Oh man, yeah, to answer your question, it really was a dumb fuck thing to do!”
“But uh, yeah, we can’t dwell on it [laughs] Oh Christ, I’ve got the giggles [laughs] Yeah man, such a dumb fuck thing to do [laughs] I can’t believe we actually thought we could pull it off. She’ll make a good ambassador [laughs] to Canada or some other Commonwealth backwater [laughs] What has gotten into me today? [laughs]”
Mr Marles took a minute to compose himself before continuing.
More to come.
