Owning the libs

by forcing the Liberals to sign with business and object to the ridiculous work-from-home law, ensuring they'd lose the public, servant and women votes.

The Libs saw the game.

Yeah, exactly.

And so they've agreed with the law whilst objecting to the details.

Presumably the Libs are meeting business councils behind the scenes and probably confirming if they'll drop the law if elected, says Alice.

And Alice, I think that's a very astute point, actually.

And Stephanie says, I wonder what happens to those workers who work for companies not based in Victoria? Is the mandate applicable to them or only to those who are employed by a Victorian-based company? Well, it was my view that it was only for those who are employed in Victoria.

Center for Public Integrity, this is a non-partisan group.

They've whacked Libs when they're in government just as hard as they're whacking the government, and they were able to work out that of the half a b- four billion dollars that was put into a slush fund...

And I say a slush fund because it wasn't just, "Oh, here's the community projects.

You apply for them.

We should have governments that make election commitments that are based on need, not based on the seats that they want to win or the seats that they want to hold.

This is damaging our democracy.

And then when he tried to table the very report, that did not come from the ABC, that did not come from News 24, that did not come from a super sleuth on the internet, instead from, and I repeat, the Center for Public Integrity, the nonpartisan group that has given it to the Libs just as hard as they have now given it to Labor, guess what the government did? They used their numbers to say, "No, you can't table [laughs] the very report that is the receipt." I'm gonna show it to you for the third time.

$400 million magically ends up in the Labor Party pot.

... and those are just-

Like the Libs

... it's, it's things that, like, take very little effort, uh, and then have, like, a huge, like, draw towards, um-

Oh, they're very seductive

If you believe bookies, no. Labor's still out to $4.

The Libs, as the most likely to form the next government, is down to $1.20 right now, so... close to heavy favourites, right? Yet Ben Carroll is apparently, allegedly, doing his best to try to recast things.

I'll fix some potholes here.

Well, what have you done for the last 12 years? Haven't you been around? Oh, no, no, no, I wasn't in charge.

Does the CFMEU still get to build all of that? Look, again, Michael, you've seen plenty of times when, oh, mate, we're 100% certain which way an election's going to go and then guess what happens? Nothing is inevitable and it completely flips around here.

But when you see, so obviously the political cycle, right, September in Victoria, who cares about politics? There's the only thing that matters, front and back page, lobby, footy, finals, finals, finals, finals, finals.

So I'm going to be paying very, very, very close attention to Ben Carroll this month because his hope is that everyone isn't paying attention and we're going to see this month his line and length of how he thinks he's going to be able to attack the Libs and One Nation.

He will be live testing his message at a time when politics is the fourth, fifth or sixth story on the 6pm news.

Ha ha ha, he's just rage baiting.

He's just, you know, I love it when he owns the Libs and I love it when he owns the Canadians.

Okay, so maybe that's rage baiting.

Maybe that's not an actual thing.

I mean, either way, you know, One Nation's got his attention.

One nation certainly got its attention, and it's got the attention of the Libs as well, because we need to remember the Prime Minister was voted in the most recent election on a first party vote, which was less than what Shorten had when he lost the election, the unlosable election.

to Morrison at that point in time.

So there would certainly be some concerns, not only beefing up your preference voting to make sure you've still got those strong cohorts.

Isn't it

convenient? That's convenient for the Libs.

Yeah.

Yeah.