Marles, the archetypal sycophant

June 4, 2025

It is hard for normal people to understand how Richard Marles, whose views would fit neatly into the right wing of the Liberal or National Parties, has not only found a home in Labor, but has risen to be our national deputy leader.

This is a Labor Party with very little relationship to that of the Labor greats like Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating. Marles is a profoundly mediocre man masquerading as a leader and a statesman. He is neither of those things as his ardent prostration and servility before a religious bigot and inebriate like Pete Hegseth clearly demonstrates.

Equally his embrace of a contract for nuclear submarines designed by its creator, the odious moral and intellectual midget Scott Morrison, to wedge the Labor Party and which is likely to bankrupt the country should it ever be delivered, suggests a man with limited intellectual and moral assets. Anthony Albanese is vastly diminished by his deputy, as is Australia.