In which Latham loves you then leaves you

As I predicted last week, Mark Loathsome has quit One Nation…

…just not for the reason I expected…

New South Wales upper house MPs Mark Latham and Rod Roberts have resigned from One Nation.
Mr Latham has tabled a letter in parliament alleging the party tried to funnel money from the NSW Electoral Commission.
Addressing the Legislative Council, Mr Latham said he cannot remain a One Nation MP due to past attempts of allegedly “defrauding NSW electoral funds”.

Oh.

So, according to Mark, he was informed in September 2021 that something was wrong with the NSW branch of ON’s finances, namely that they were being diverted to the Brisbane office of the party. Understandably, Mark cracked the shits and threatened the party’s national director with getting the police involved, whereupon the problem mysteriously ceased (and Pauline was NOT happy).

If this story is indeed true, then this is what I took from it:

1. Latham did this cos they were making his job harder, not because he thought it was the morally correct thing to do. Rod Roberts might be citing the party’s lack of morals in his resignation note, but I don’t think Latham really gives a shit about that;
2. Having dealt with the issue, Latham then continued to be part of One Nation, which again suggests to me this business about the Brisbane office misusing funds wasn’t enough of a moral problem for him to actually quit the party.

Regardless of the truth or otherwise of the story, though, it’s still not the real reason Latham’s jumped ship, which is, obviously, the bullshit from last week. All of this is about him being fucked over by Pauline and nothing to do with his outrage at the party’s bad behaviour; this other business is just a handy club he can hit them with on the way out… In any case, I just wonder what’ll happen next, if he’ll stay a lone independent or form his own party; I feel like he doesn’t have the sufficient cult of personality for the latter, but then again Bob Katter manages somehow… I rather doubt any other existing party will take him on, so could we perhaps even be looking at the end of the tedious cunt? We can always hope…