Election promises

are sending me insane.
   "If elected we will do this..."
   "If elected my government will..."
   "If elected I will..."
The two men who would likely be Prime Minister are very different. They need to be. 
Unfortunately the one most likely to get the job is someone I have no time for at all. The other still seems somewhat bemused by the fact that he is the one fighting the election as leader of the party.
What really worries me however is that the one most likely to get the job is a man who
(a) cheated on his first wife and
(b) made another married woman pregnant. (He later married her.)
(c) has unresolved sexual allegations against him
(d) when head of the AWU  he was involved in some dealings that left vulnerable workers worse off - but the union better off.
(e) the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption raised some questions about his behaviour which were never satisfactorily answered but only because the terms of the commission did not allow it. 
Now it is always possible that some nasty surprises could be found in the bemused candidate's background but, so far, there have been no  hint of them in the media. There have been complaints yes but no hint corruption. The media likes to poke fun at him and make much of his lack of campaigning experience.
The media is also making much of the changes of leadership within his party. At the same time they are ignoring the fact that the same thing happened on the other side - and that the man who would be Prime Minister was one of those who was doing the agitating, switched his allegiance more than once and whom nobody could regard as "loyal".
So why is the man most likely to get the job getting such a good press? The answer came in a list I was sent and passed over to the Senior Cat. He read it.




If you know anything about politics and the media in Downunder need I say any more?