‘morning Poirot,

Like I said, the IMF used the old Swan MYEFO as their base line, it’s out of date until the next budget. That’s why the IMF is in so much trouble with Canberra.

No amount of Fairfax opinion will change that.

Why don’t you stop digging, you’ve already reached rock bottom. Just swallow your omission and move on.

Lol!...spindoc,

In the end it doesn't really matter because Eleventy Joe is going to do his thing anyway.

Less see what sort of diabolical mess this charlatan can deliver in May.

Was it Carr who described Abbott as a "cheapskate hypnotist in a rundown circus"?

I think that applies equally to the swaggering fakery of Joe.

Btw, talking of leaders on the nose....
http://www.afr.com/p/national/abbott_on_the_nose_in_regions_CsYqkyHwx2hO6PPGOaY0eP

So what to do with a leader who's on the nose. Well here in NSW we had such a leader until he fell on his sward today. The Lying Liberal Leader Barry O'Farrell was exposed today as telling bare-faced lies at the ICAC. Like the NSW Labor Party the State Liberal Party is being exposed as a haven for the corrupt and dishonest. Liberal king pin Nick Di Girolamo was described as an "old-fashioned shyster fraudster" and "bare-faced liar" a title O'Farrell has been quick to grab. The 2015 NSW election can't come quick enough when the voters will be given another opportunity to kick the crap out of yet another rotten bunch, not the Labor rabble which got theirs in 2011, but this time the Liberal State Government will get what they deserve. The only alternative is to vote Greens or independents for honesty and integrity.