This is the most erudite assessment of Nick Xenophon I have yet seen.
I base this view on an accidental meeting at a outdoor cafe in North Adelaide. I was walking past and a friend called me over. Sitting with him was one Nick Xenophon. I was invited to join them.

I'm normally a fairly gregarious person, but there was no way I could participate in conversation with these two. Neither finished a thought, an idea, a viewpoint or a sentence in the conversation that followed. It was all about Nick and politics. Admittedly, the "conversation" was interrupted by endless mobile calls -- all to Nick.

Nevertheless, I came away pleased I had not voted for him, and firm in my intention not to do so in the future. There appears to me to be no coherent social, political and/or economic system of beliefs within whatever ideology he holds. I suspect that may vary from day to day. He is a man for all seasons, and a man for no season at all. To me, he has as much substance as a snow-flake. And people WILL tire, in the end, of all the media stunts.

Willow

Reliable sources say Mr Xenophon - he in trouble. Big trouble by taking on AMWU over alleged mispresentation according to ABC radio and now his partner is calling him an anti-politician. The problem with spin is that when the wheels fall off, the come off fast.

Never a truer word said..."He's not going to do anything about it either. He's just going to articulate back to an angry public what they feel - not unlike a therapist."

I don't need someone insulting my intelligence. Why has he done nothing about reforming the worker's compensation system? With his background, over the last 10 years, he could have dealt WorkCover a body-blow from which it would never have recovered. But he will chair injured worker group meetings and pay them platitudes. WAKE UP SOUTH AUSTRALIA