Foxy,

Seriously? MT pointing out that BS sucks up to billionaires is not news. Shorten's free access to Pratt's private jet is not news. That Pratt completely squashed any union activity with no backlash from Shorten's unions shows that Pratt's backhands to Shorten got the quid pro quo that he needed.

I'm just surprised at the confected outrage at the relatively tame outburst by MT whilst ignoring multiple episodes of the same from labor.

Dear Shadow Minister,

The relevant point that Andrew Bolt was making
was that by using the same old tactics of the past
of attacking the other side no longer works.
Voters are no longer buying it. It merely makes
"Turnbull's mob look like a stand-for nothing
government."

Bolt tells us that "The more the government seems
merely the :lesser evil", the more voters will
prefer parties promising a more perfect good."

"They know the either Liberal or Labor model is
broken. But Turnbull's frantic attacks on Shorten
suggest he still can't give it up. There he was,
trying to make Shorten seem worse, not himself
seem good."

"That's the old politics of the 'lesser evil.'"

Time to change.

Foxy,

For 12 months MT has taken the high road, and Shorten has gone negative the whole way. You tell me which is working.

Shorten has had a free pass for too long. His election tactics were beyond unethical and bordering on criminal, his past is full of shonky deals and selling out workers he was mean to represent. If Shorten has not ceased from attacking MT's character, the voters deserve to hear about his shady past.

Dear Shadow Minister,

You still don't get it.

You don't get that the Prime Minister's carry-on last week
is part of the old politics that no longer works.

Gone are the days when perhaps you could get away with
that stuff and when voters had basically only two
choices - the Liberals or Labor/Greens and all the Liberals
had to prove was that they weren't as bad as Labor.

That they were as Andrew Bolt pointed out - the "lesser
evil".

But the Liberals as Bolt confirms can't get away with
that rubbish any longer.

Do keep up.

Bolt points out that - "Newspoll now says a record one
in three voters reject both the Liberals and Labor and
a Galaxy poll at the week-end showed Hanson's One
Nation could even help form the next Queensland
government, its support having shot up to 23 per cent."

"Liberals and Labor both stink. "

According to Bolt - "But the Liberals smell worse."

"Millions of voters have turned their backs on the party
over the past year, switching support to One Nation."

Foxy,

In sports politics etc, to win, your opponent has to lose. It is time that MT stops playing Mr congeniality and lets the voters know exactly what a scuzzball Shorten is. Negative attacks work.

Notably the greens are losing votes too, their votes are the lowest for a decade. With Rhiannon going off her meds and off the reservation, the greens will be an easy target. In fact they look like they will be displaced in 3rd place by one nation.

Dear Shadow Minister,

The PM is stuck in the antiquated either Labor-or-
Liberal rut, trying to prove that while voters
might think the PM a clueless, out-of-touch loser,
Shorten - that "simpering sycophant" is worse.

That's not going to work. Voters have turned their
backs on the party over the past year and things
are only going to get worse. The Liberals can't get away
with that rubbish any longer. The sooner they realise
it the better. Those old tactics no longer work.