'awful smell' of the thomson affair

Labor now turning on one another. How much longer can Thomson and Gillard hold on?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/escorts-files-name-mp-craig-thomson/story-fn59niix-1226121827429

FORMER ALP powerbroker Graham Richardson says the Craig Thomson affair is damaging the Labor brand and has an "awful smell to it".

Mr Richardson said Labor had to hang on to Mr Thomson to stay in government, but ?Craig Thomson is getting desperately hard to cling on to?.

He said the next election would be ?as bad or worse as NSW? if a circuit breaker wasn't found.

?It's just unsavoury to cling on to him, that's the problem,? he said on his ?Richo? program on Sky TV last night.

?This has got an awful smell to it that won't go away.

?Every day they hang on, the Labor brand gets damaged and yet they have no choice but to hang on.