Poor lambs: execution date confirmed

Young Australian voters are turning away from Little John in droves; as voting is 'compulsory' most of them are looking at the alternatives and considering them all as potential least worst places to park their vote - the rest are art school undergraduates and will use the reps paper for a cartoon and the senate paper for a full blown masterpiece of donkey voting.

Boy are they in for a disappointment. Today they're all taunt skinned, bright eyed and full of hope. Tomorrow they'll wake up and realise they've not voted for some one who is focused, as one young prospective voter put it, on "the things that matter to him like climate change and human rights"

She's talking about Kev. Lethal with a skewer is Kev. He's shafted his foreign affairs spokesperson this week in the furore over that individual's elucidation of the Party of Opposition's policy on the death penalty. How many other principles is this party leader prepared to sling overboard in his efforts to secure and retain power? Quite possibly nearly as many as Little John's prepared to sacrifice on the altar of power retained.

Au fond, Kev's just another power thirsty god botherer who, when he tots up the numbers will recognise that his bread is buttered on the side accessible to those who believe the indiginous population in need of patronising, women belong in the home and that men should always fuck women and never ever wear a dress - everything else is background noise.

I'm reminded in this of a very old joke, sometimes attributed to Winston Churchill, which runs something like this:

Wannabee Prime Minster: Virgin Voter, would you vote for me and give me power if I make a pledge of higher expenditure (as well as a cosy policy on the environment and soothing words about Human Rights)?

Virgin Voter: Geez Mr Wannabee Prime Minister ... Well, I suppose ... we would have to discuss terms, of course ...

Wannabee Prime Minister: Virgin Voter, would you vote for me and give me power if I make a pledge of a modest rise in expenditure?

Virgin Voter: Mr Wannabee Prime Minster! What kind of voter do you think I am?

Wannabee Prime Minster: We've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.