Déjà Vu All Over Again

Missed today’s Question Time? Don’t worry if you saw yesterday’s, you saw today’s (minus two sprigs of wattle worn by Rudd and Turnbull).

Yesterday the opposition asked about the Henry Tax Review recommending to the Government bringing in a tax on houses over $2m on the basis of a report in The Australian. They did it again today. Yesterday the Government said the article was fiction; they did again today.

Yesterday the opposition then asked about the Henry Review recommending tax increases on any old tax they could think of; they did it again today. Yesterday the Government ruled nothing in or out, but instead said Australia needed a “root and branch” tax review; they did again today.

Yesterday the opposition quoted something Lindsay Tanner had said about negative gearing 15 years ago; he laughed at them. Today they asked Swan about something Tanner had said 15 years ago on negative gearing; today Swan laughed at them.

It was a dumb day really. The opposition asked its first eight questions to Swan, but it was actually the same questions asked eight times. But it wasn’t a case of Swan squirming away; in fact his first response to Turnbull was pretty strong. By the end Swan could hardly be bothered and he gave Truss a one sentence response to a question on if the Government would rule out an increase on fuel excise. I guess the Liberal Party will now put out a string of media releases claiming the Government is secretly planning to raise every tax in the land and invent some new ones as well. Sigh. It’s all so old and dull. The Liberal Party has been trying to scare the voters about ALP taxes since Menzies’ day. It’s an old dodge that doesn’t work very well when the ALP is in power, because it is hard to scare the voters about a Government that is already the Government. The public has seen Rudd for nearly three years now; they may think many things about him, but scary is not one of them.

The Government as well kept to a pretty straight theme – attacking Turnbull’s judgement. Expect this to be the case from now till election day – when you’ve got around 60% of the voters thinking Turnbull is doing a bad job, it’s obvious the ALP will continue to keep pointing out his perceived faults. And it’ll probably work – people generally agree with their own opinions, the trouble with the Opposition is they have to convince the voters that what they think about Rudd is wrong; a much tougher ask.

The one interesting question of the day was from Julie Bishop who was trying to get Stephen Smith to admit that China is annoyed with Australia granting a visa to Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. Smith got up and pretty much admitted that China is well and truly pissed off with Australia; and yet Bishop – dopey as it gets – kept trying to make a point of order. Did she listen to what he was saying? Did she understand it?

Bizarrely the next question from the Liberals was to Peter Garrett arguing that the Government's policy on ceiling insulation was encouraging the importation of inferior “cheap, Chinese pink bats”. Just how that was supposed to help the Sino-Aussie relationship, I’m not sure.

And just how the whole China kerfuffle fits in with the story that China has just agreed to buy $50b worth of liquefied natural gas is also something I’m not sure of. Perhaps it seems that foreign affairs is a bit more complicated than Julie Bishop would like.

And the sprigs of wattle? They were worn by Rudd and Turnbull (and oddly only Rudd and Turnbull) to commemorate Vietnam Veterans' Day. Turnbull’s was a particularly large sprig that gave him the edge over Rudd in the fauna stakes; though perhaps sprigs of wattle are like some men's cars, the size of which is an attempt to make up for things lacking elsewhere… perhaps when Turnbull actually comes up with a policy he'll be less worried about the size of his wattle.

On the QT: Billy Brownless and bad draft picks

Last night I was chatting with my Dad about various things AFL, and we cast our minds to some horror draft picks made by the Crows. For any Crows’ fan, when you think bad draft picks you think Laurence Angwin who in 2000 was drafted at Number 7 (still the highest pick the Crows have ever had). He arrived with much fanfare, and then he went on to play a total of zero games for the Crows. He then was picked up by Carlton where he played 4 games before being sacked after turning up to training stoned.

All fans of any footy club would be able to mention at least one “Laurence Angwin” for their club, and yet despite the lottery that is the AFL Draft, each year teams near the bottom of the table will be accused of tanking for priority draft picks. So bad has the Liberal Party been this year that one would be led to believe they are tanking in the interests of getting some priority picks for the next election…. except I’m not sure if that’s how the system works.

Either way, I think in their current leader Malcolm Turnbull, they may have an Angwin. Ok, I don’t expect Turnbull to front up to Question Time having dropped a few tabs of ecstasy beforehand, but he certainly has not lived up to all the fanfare he had when he was drafted from Goldman Sachs. He was put straight into the first 22, and after the Liberals lost the 2007 Grand Final he was thought a chance of being made captain despite his inexperience. After Nelson was found wanting, Turnbull was duly made captain, and the Liberal Party fans thought they had done well with their draft pick – more Chris Judd than Angwin.

Alas, since he has been asked to play in the centre of the park, he has been found rather less talented than what the recruiters thought when he was picked up in the 2004 Draft.

Take today’s Question Time. He had the first question and he asked Rudd about news reports from Saturday’s The Australian that the Henry Tax Review was considering putting a “wealth tax” on homes over $2 million (why this would concern anyone living outside of Point Piper, I’m not sure). Now by Saturday late morning Swan had put out a media release denying the story:

The story published on the front page of today’s Weekend Australian in relation to capital gains tax on family homes is factually incorrect.

There has been no request from the Government to the Australia’s Future Tax System review to model such proposals, we are advised that no such modelling is being carried out by the review, and therefore no recommendation of this sort will be made to us by the panel.

The Government is not considering and will not consider the policy outlined in that article today.

And if that wasn’t enough, Ken Henry, the Secretary of the Treasury, this morning (before Question Time) in a speech to the Australian Industry Group said:

"There's a reference there to us possibly considering applying capital gains tax to the owner occupied house, well, I don't think there was anybody in the country was more shocked to learn about that on Saturday morning than me. It was pure fiction."

So the story had been denied completely by all involved, and yet Turnbull asks a question on it. All it did was allow Rudd to note that Turnbull has been known to have some “historic connections” with people in Treasury, and then repeat the denials. It was the ultimate free kick for Rudd, who doesn’t need any help at the moment.

Later, Turnbull obviously thought the ALP wasn’t in front by enough, and decided to ask Rudd a virtual Dorothy Dixer on prices and interest rates. Now given that since the 07 election, interest rates have gone through the floor, and inflation has gone down due to the global financial crisis, it was an amazingly asinine question, that pretty much let Rudd talk about everything and anything he wanted to on the economy – cue “10 interest rate rises under Howard” etc etc etc (you know the script). In footy terms it was like Turnbull had kicked across his own goal and found the opposition full forward 10 metres out, straight in front.

The Government had a pretty fun day – Garrett was looking pretty loose and came up with a nice line about the current Liberal Party going so far to the right on environmental issues that they were making John Howard look like Al Gore; Kate Ellis, in one of her few non-Dorothy Dix moments at the dispatch box, slapped down Sophie Mirabella so nicely that Bronwyn Bishop felt the need to make a pointless point of order just to give some relief.

Lindsay Tanner had the most fun (as he often does) when Joe Hockey asked him a question based on something he had previously said about negative gearing. Tanner pointed out what Hockey had failed to mention, namely that he was quoting something Tanner had said 15 years ago. Tanner had no problems in saying he no longer stood by those statements, and added for good measure that if that was the best the Liberal Party had, then he would be sleeping very well tonight. He also decided that it was as good a time as any to put the knife into Hockey’s future leadership ambitions by referring to him as the Billy Brownless of the Liberal Party – a jovial type, but not one who you would trust with the leadership.

At this point I’m not sure who comes off worst by the comparison – Billy or Joe – Brownless played some good games for Geelong and certainly was no mug as a player, much as is the case with Hockey. But there is one fact that as a mad AFL fan Tanner would be aware – Brownless played in four grand finals with Geelong and never won any of them. At the rate this Liberal Party is going, losing four elections is not out of the question – and you can bet Rudd, Tanner, Gillard and co are already thinking in such terms – after all Rudd is a Brisbane Lions supporter so he knows about stringing a few Premierships in a row.

AFL Power List: Round 20 (or it’s all up for grabs)

Another excellent round of footy, capped off with a great game on Sunday evening seeing the Bombers win over the Saints which pretty much kills off Port’s hopes for the finals. With Melbourne’s win over Fremantle despite them having beaten Port last week, and Richmond’s pathetic display over Collingwood I’ve decided all three are equal 14th. In any given week they’re a chance to be the worst team ever to have played the game.

But now let’s break down the jostling for the last spot in the Top 8:

Essendon play Fremantle (W) and the Hawks (?), which puts them on 10 1/2 wins and 1 “maybe”.

Port plays Brisbane (L) and North (W), which puts them on 10 wins Sydney play Collingwood (L) and Brisbane (L), which leaves them on 8 wins.

Hawks play Richmond (W) and Essendon (?). Which puts them on 9 wins and 1 maybe.

Port are no chance unless they beat the Lions this week. It looks almost certain to come down to who wins out of the Bombers and Hawks in the last round.

For the top 4:

Collingwood play Sydney (W) and Bulldogs (?), which puts them on 15 wins and 1 “maybe” – safe for third.

Bulldogs plays Geelong (?) and Collingwood (?), which puts them on 13 wins and 2 “maybes”.

Carlton plays Melbourne (W) and the Crows (?), which puts them on 13 wins and 1 “maybe”

Crows play the Eagles (W) and Carlton (?), which puts them on 13 wins and 1 “maybe”.

Brisbane plays Port (W) and Sydney (W), which puts them on 13 1/2 wins.

The Pies are safe for third, my prediction is that fourth will come down to the Carlton-Crows game - whoever wins that will come fourth, whoever loses will come or 7th, and Brisbane to finish 5th, and the Bulldogs, 6th. (Though it all gets mucked up if the Bulldogs win either of their matches.)

	Rank	LW	Team	Record	Comment
Safe
	1	1↔	St Kilda	19-1	Riewoldt had the chance to keep the unbeaten streak alive and his kicked wasn’t even close.
	2	2↔	Geelong	17-3	They weren’t great, but they won’t lose many games when Ablett get 44 touches.
	3	3↔	Collingwood	14-6	Beating the Tigers means nothing.
	4	4↔	Adelaide	12-8	After quarter time the Crows kicked 12.14 to the Hawks 4.10.
	5	5↔	Bulldogs	13-7	Lions fans booing Ackermanis obviously learned nothing from watching him being booed while playing for them for 12 years.
	6	7↑	Carlton	12-8	The Blues did it well, and now get to play the Demons coming off a win.
	7	6↓	Brisbane	11-1-8	A big loss that puts paid to their top 4 hopes.
Need	some	wins
	8	8↔	Essendon	9-1-10	A great win by the Bombers despite not kicking a goal in the last quarter.
	9	10↑	Hawthorn	8-12	After quarter time the Hawks only kicked 4 goals, and Buddy kicked all of them.
	10	9↓	Port Adelaide	9-11	Port blew their hopes of being the worst team ever to make the finals.
No	chance
	11	11↔	Sydney	8-12	Another close loss to a top team. The Swans will miss the finals, but things aren’t too dire in the harbour city
	12	12↔	West Coast	7-13	A good win at home – though the umpiring in the last quarter helped them at tad.
	13	14↔	North Melbourne	5-1-14	North get to be the first team to play the Saints coming off a loss.
	14	15↔	Fremantle	5-15	Fremantle showed Melbourne how a team really tanks.
	14	13↓	Richmond	5-1-14	The Tigers were a joke – on that performance they deserve to be relegated to the VFL.
	14	16↔	Melbourne	4-16	A weird feeling for the Demons fans, but with Carlton and the Saints to go, they should still get the priority pick.

Sport at its best

I have a dream. It’s a never going to happen unless I win lotto dream, but it’s still there. It’s actually a dream of both my wife and I. One day in the future, most likely after our girls have grown up, we spend a European Summer following the Golden League Athletic competition.

The Golden League is a series of 6 (sometimes one more) athletics meets held in various European cities. For certain events, if an athlete wins all 6 of the competitions they win $1m in Gold. The meets this year (and usually every year) were held in Berlin, Oslo, Rome, Paris, Zurich and Brussels from mid June to the start of September. Travelling around Europe for a couple months, watching the greatest athletes in the world: pure bliss.

Now I love athletics. Really love it, love it in fact more than any other sport. Now for example I love AFL, but I have never gone to watch a match in which my team (the Adelaide Crows) was not playing (as I write this, Collingwood is belting Richmond on the TV, but I feel no desire to settle down and watch; though admittedly I will often watch non-Crows matches on TV). I also love cricket, but even though I have Foxtel I never bother to watch a test match that doesn’t feature Australia. I did watch some of the Indian Twenty20 comp, but it was a mere curiosity. I think baseball is a great sport – my wife gave me the Ken Burns documentary series a couple years ago and I could watch the DVDs again and again – but unless the Yankees are playing, I can’t be bothered.

But athletics? It doesn’t matter who is competing. I have gone to watch the local Telstra Grand Prix Competitions even though no one really of much note has been competing. I enjoy seeing some young up and comers come on up.  I just love everything about the sport and just revel in the delight of seeing athletes competing (at this point it is probably no surprise to discover I was a bit of a runner in my younger days).

But the Golden League is something else; not just good athletes, but the greatest in the world.

One of the best moments of my life was in 2000 when on the night of the 28th of September, my wife and I were in the stands watching the athletics session at the Sydney Olympics. On offer that night was the Men’s Long Jump Final, the Men’s and Women’s 200m Finals, the last events of the Decathlon,and the Women’s High Jump preliminaries (there were a few others but I have to admit they escape me at the moment). It was the night, Australian Jai Taurima duelled with the great  Ivan Pedroso in the long jump. The final featured two Australians (Peter Burges was the other), and the crowd of well over 100,000 was screaming and stomping for each of them as they did their jumps. After three rounds Tourima was first, Pedroso second, Burges was sixth (where he would finish). Tourima and Pedroso had both jumped 8.34m, but Torima was in the lead on a count back (his second best jump was better).

In the fourth round Pedroso jumped 8.41m to take the lead; Tourima, jumping last, jumped 8.40m. In the 5th round Pedroso fouled, and then Tourima uncorked an Australian record of 8.49m. At this point the noise generated by the crowd was as loud as any I’ve ever heard – and it was all for one person. In the last round the crowd cheered for Pedroso – clapped as he began his run-up and then all 100,000 let out an “oh” when the scoreboard flashed up his jump – 8.55m. The crowd, try as it might, could not lift Tourima one last time, and his last jump of 8.28m was not enough.

It was an amazing contest, and one of the few times that an Australian was in contention in the athletics. In the weeks after a number of people thought we were lucky that the long jump was on the night that we picked. I told them that actually I had picked the night because I knew the long jump was featured. As an athletics nut I had watched the World Athletics Championships in 1999 at Seville and seen Toruima come 4th, another Australian Shane Hair came 5th, and I knew that Australian record holder Peter Burges, who was injured was also a chance. So when I studied the ballot for tickets, I made the night with the men’s long jump my number one preference, figuring there was a good chance an Aussie would be in the final. But I didn’t think it would be as good as it was.

A couple nights later we were back in the stadium and saw the men’s 800m final, where my favourite 800m runner of all time, Wilson Kipketer, came second in a pathetically slow final. I was shattered. I was also in ecstasy that I had just seen an Olympic 800m final.

All this is a long round about way of pointing out the World Athletics Championships start tonight in Berlin . It’s a great event – in some ways better than the Olympics. One of the main reasons it’s better is that because it is not the Olympics Channel 7 isn’t broadcasting, instead it’s on SBS. And SBS, because they have an odd belief that people like to see sport live, do sport better than anyone else.

This year, once again the men’s long jump is one of the best chances for Australian success – Mitchell Watt and Fabrice Lapierre are in the top 10 for the year – Lapierre is ranked 3rd. Also to watch of course is the pole vault with Olympic Champion Steve Hooker – he has won every competition but one since then. My big hope is Sally McLellan in the 100m Hurdles. She is ranked 2nd in the world and has been running brilliantly of late. The final is on Wednesday night (about 5:15am on Thursday morning in Australia), and while I’ve got the timer all set on the DVD recorder, I think I’ll make the effort and get up for that one.

But that’s just the Aussies we’ve also got Usain Bolt versus Tyson Gaye in the 100m; Wariner versus Brown in the 400m; Blanka Vlasic in the high jump; Isinbaeva in the pole vault, Galkina in the steeplechase. Ah me, what bliss!

Coming Soon: Daybreakers

Following my previous post on the brilliant 6 months ahead for Australian movies, I shamefully neglected to include Daybreakers. A film written and directed by Australian brothers Michael and Peter Spierg.

It is set in 2019, in a world were most of the population are vampires, and a steady decline in human numbers is also meaning a decline in the blood supply. It is definitely more in the action/thriller/horror vampire genre than your cutesy Twilight style vampire tales

It stars Sam Neil, Ethan Hawke, Willem Defoe, Claudia Karvan, and it looks absolutely amazing.

This is a film for anyone you know who says they hate Australian films. It reportedly cost $21m to make, but it looks like it cost $60m. It's due to be released in early January in the US and on the Australia Day weekend here.

I have big hopes for this film - the buzz on fanboy sites like Ain't it Cool News is very strong.

The trailer is one of the best I've ever seen for an Aussie film (great use of a cover of "Running Up that Hill" by Placebo).

The brothers next project is to do a remake of the Errol Flynn film Captain Blood. Reportedly it is to be set in space. I'm not sure about that, but this film I do know - it's got hit written all over it.

On the QT: How Many MPs Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?

Today was the first Question Time after the long winter break. The anticipation was palpable. Twitter was working itself into a frenzy, as were The Punch and Crikey as they did duelling live Question Time blogs. The three condolence motions prior to the start of proceedings only served to raise the tension to higher and higher levels. And then it began, and lo all around thought, geez, what a bloody bore.

Look I know Question Time is meant to be about serious issues, and that MPs are not there to entertain us, but hell it was hard going. Blame can be thrown around on both sides. The Liberal Party today demonstrated how damaging a weak opposition is to good government. The Government's Emissions Trading System is not without flaws but, given the shambles that the Coalition finds itself in, the Government will never really be held to account on them. This also leads to dull Question Time, especially when the Opposition decides to ask Kevin Rudd every single question on the issue of the ETS, and they end every single question with a line about the Frontier Economic modelling that LIberal Party Malcolm Turnbull (and Nick Xenaphon) commissioned was “greener, cheaper and smarter” and that the Government’s ETS was “flawed”.

So green, so cheap, so smart did they say the proposed economic modelling by Frontier Economics was that one couldn’t help wonder why the Opposition weren’t actually adopting it as policy. Kevin Rudd certainly was, because every single answer he gave on the issue referred to the policy being a “non-proposal” or a “non-policy”. It was far too easy.

And when things get far too easy for the PM, he goes into (as Annabel Crabb calls it) Power Point mode. He talks and recites and proposes and figures and datamizes and progomatic specificitizes, at which point he completely forgets to use grammar in his sentences and metaphors become but mere bits of Play-Doh for him to mould and mix into a multi-coloured ball that is neither useable nor so bad it can be thrown away.

He  took delight in referring to Turnbull’s ETS model as a magic pudding – something that you could put more carbon in and yet less emissions would come out. Upon finding that this sounded good coming from his lips he got far too excited and called it an unreconstructed magic pudding of a policy. At this point he then recalled one of his favourite expressions – “rolled gold” –  which unaccountably and  promptly found its way into the pudding mix and thus we had the Liberal Party delivering a rolled-gold, unreconstructed magic pudding, which suggests at the very least a certain amount of difficulty for voters to swallow, and most likely a shirt load of Ford Pills after the fact to move that baby through the system.

Half way through Rudd’s second answer (a Dorothy Dixer on terrorism) the storm that had been hitting Canberra at the time made its presence felt in the chamber. The lights went out from a power failure and levity ensued. Like a group of Grade 5s the MPs in the House roared and laughed at this novel thing of electricity not working. It also allowed an opportunity for many of those there, such as Peter Dutton, to display a complete absence of wit - “Forgot to pay the Bill did you Kevin/Swannie?” was heard in numerous versions, which made one think of the quality of humour more usually associated with a particularly bad best man speech. To be honest Rudd didn’t do much better when he continued speaking – using a pretty tortured analogy about darkness in the Liberal Party or some such.

After that the tone got no brighter. Surprisingly, Andrew Robb and not Turnbull asked the second question (causing Julia Gillard to mischievously suggest he was “getting some practice in” in reference to the laughable rumours that he is a candidate to take over the leadership). His question again ended with the “cheaper, greener, smarter” – or was it “greener, smarter, cheaper” – one gets confused), and the Government's “flawed ETS”. So easy was his question that Rudd went into Dorothy Dixer mode and talked and recited and proposed and figured and…  

When Joe Hockey got up to ask his question, he seemed to be suffering from the effort of climbing Mt Kilimanjaro in the recess and almost fell asleep while standing at the Dispatch Box. What came through from his mumbled sleepy voice was why the Government wouldn’t adopt the Turnbull ETS model; to which Rudd essentially replied, why should I – you haven’t. From then on the Opposition's questions  became more and more pointless – asking Rudd how much the cost of a litre of milk would rise under the ETS, or how much the the price of bus fares would rise.

Rudd dealt with these by not bothering to answer and instead had fun talking about Liberal Party disunity. And while, yes it was humorous in parts (such as the mention of the “gratifying grunt of approval” in the Liberal Party room to Turnbull’s ETS), it lacked any real venom because there was no risk, no danger for Rudd, no need to go on the attack. It was like watching a tennis player serve out the match with the score line reading 6-0, 6-1, 5-0. At such point the greatest shot ever seen will elicit barely an applause as the crowd just hope the match (and the opponent) will be put out of its misery.

So it was for Question Time today. It was murder for all watching, and given the way the session started, it would have only been fitting for the PM to have ended with another condolence motion for those poor fools who had decided to tune in.

Newspoll: ALP 57 – LNP 43 (or just another wipe-out predicted, how boring)

Well sigh. Today's Newspoll stayed the same on 2 Part Preferred terms. How boring. Yet another poll predicting an ALP slaughtering of the Lib/Nats. Dullsville.

That a 57-43 results is not headline news anymore is a pretty good indication of where things are at for the Opposition. Things are dire; and I'm talking Crackerjack Bowling Club levels of dire.

At least there was some movement in the Satisfaction ratings of Turnbull. Not positive movements, but at least they weren't dull. His Satisfaction rating went from 33% to 26%. His Dissatisfaction rating went up from 50% to 57%, to give him a net rating of minus 31. Rudd on the other hand has a net rating of 48% - putting him 79 points in front on that score. No other leader has made it to an election with such low ratings, let alone come close to winning one.

But props to Greg Hunt for keeping his chin up, though going on ABC TV and suggesting that the poll was “positive”, and that “under the circumstances it is a very strong result.” was perhaps moving into the dangerously silly territory, but still, well done.

In the day's news, the Liberal-National Party Malcolm Turnbull-Nick Xenaphon Party released their Emission Trading System Policy Modelling. Amazingly Turnbull held a press conference to announce … err some economic modelling that err should be part of the debate… but is not anyone’s policy because err well look  errr that’s not the point … the point is that …

Astonishing really. A joke of a way to run a party. Just imagine if you were an MP of the Liberal Party and you see your leader announcing to the media a proposal on the most important economic issue facing the nation, and you realise you haven’t even had a say on it yet. Bet you’d feel real happy to realise you are now an MP for the Turnbull Party (especially as it seems now to be in coalition with Nick Xenaphon).

Look Turnbull and Co claim they can achieve more cuts in emissions for a lot less cost. They do this buy predicting they’ll be able to buy a lot more carbon permits from overseas than the Government's plan does, and by assuming a lower price of carbon than everyone expects to have to pay.

It’s all a bit of a pea and thimble trick – we’ll reduce emissions by ensuring no one has any incentive to stop reducing their emissions. Think about it, under this scheme Turnbull suggests the price of the average electricity bill to rise by $8 a year. Would that change your behaviour in any way? Both sides – the ALP is guilty of this as well – need to face up to the fact that if you want people to stop using carbon-dirty energy, then the price will have to go up – just like you try to get people to stop smoking by upping the price of cigarettes. No price pain; no emissions change. Sorry wish it weren’t so.

But in political terms this policy (or whatever it is) by Turnbull is a waste of paper and space. Why would the Government consider negotiating with him on this? The Liberal Party hasn’t even adopted it as its policy – so there’s no guarantee Turnbull can even say to the Govt, “adopt this policy and my side will all vote for it”. The National Party sure as hell don't support it – which was obvious by the absence from today’s press conference of Warren Truss. Turnbull himself started doing an impression of Shirty the Slightly Aggressive Bear whenever any journo dared ask him a question about why this wasn’t actually a policy, or where was Truss, or what about that Godwin Grech? It was as if he couldn’t believe those assembled hadn’t forgotten about his past week in light of him solving the entire climate change problem.

Look, Penny Wong can be as shifty-political on this issue as anyone, but she does have one very good point – until Turnbull comes to the table with a document that is supported by his party, anything he says is just whistling in the wind.

And with a Satisfaction rating of 26% and a Preferred PM rating of 17%, he doesn’t have a very loud whistle.