Keating takes on Labor - the Lateline interview ...

An excerpt:

Qu: Kim Beazley seemed to have a deliberate policy of turning his back on the Hawke Keating years. His advisers now or the key advisers like Epstein are now key advisers to Kevin Rudd, is that a problem?

Paul Keating: They'll do him no good. Because in the end those kind of conservative tea-leaf-reading focus group driven polling types who I think led Kim into nothingness, he's got his life to repent in leisure now at what they did to him. They're back, they're back. Gary Gray lost the '96 election with me and then lost '98. He's been given Kim Beazley's best seat in Western Australia. The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

See - Lateline - Keating pouts.

Also see - Gillard's response.

Vintage Keating ...