Raw vision of Kevin Rudd throwing down his challenge at a St Patrick Day's event in Brisbane. Vision: Kevin Rudd
KEVIN Rudd has released a YouTube video of himself declaring "I will challenge!" in a St Patrick's Day joke unlikely to leave the Prime Minister laughing.
During a string of gags about the leadership drama destroying the ALP's election hopes, the former Prime Minister has made jokes about "cold showers" and "cryogenic'' freezing, all the terms he has used to rule out a second leadership challenge.
In a speech to a St Patrick's Day party at Brisbane's Irish Club on Friday night, Mr Rudd also joked about the Ides of March, the March 15 date that became notorious as the date of the assassination date of Julias Caesar.
"Today is also the Ides of March. A day which demands the attention of anyone involved in the fratricide, sorry the profession, of politics,'' Mr Rudd said.
"Now there's been a lot of speculation about politics of late. It's time to put a stop to it. It's time to turn off the cold showers. It's time to turn off the cryogenic storage tanks. It's time to tell it as it is. It's time to announce...on these Ides of March 2013, that I will challenge!"
Kevin Rudd joked about leadership challenges during a St Patrick's Day speech in Brisbane. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen
After a dramatic pause, Mr Rudd adds, "any of the Liberal politicans here'' if they claim to have a greater Irish heritage than him.
Meanwhile, the Labor Party's top campaign strategist George Wright also lashed Labor MPs for ongoing leadership instability warning they are "damaging'' the government and destroying their chances of winning the next election.
His warning to the parliamentary wing followed claims by ALP insiders that the Labor Party's national secretariat had been ordered by the Prime Minister's office not to conduct polling in Victoria and South Australia fearing it could be used as the spark to light a leadership battle this week.
"I think it is extremely damaging to the government,'' Mr Wright said.
"The fact that I am getting phone calls like this. None of this is about the national secretariat. None of this is about polling. I can only imagine what they are doing it for.
"My advice to MPs is: 'You've got a an election to fight in six months'."
Mr Wright rejected claims he had been ordered by the Prime Minister's office not to conduct polling or that he was keeping polling in SA and Victoria secret so it could not be leaked by the Prime Minister's enemies. However, he refused to discuss whether he had conducted polling in Victoria or SA that had confirmed big swings.
The speech comes as Mr Rudd also warned the Gillard government it had failed to sell a historic schools funding revolution with mums and dads in the dark about what the "Gonski" reforms mean.
Speaking at a function in Brisbane to launch a book of Labor speeches For the True Believers, Mr Rudd warned yesterday Labor's communications strategy was failing.
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