Guidelines

Listening to the radio this morning I heard the Prime Minister’s office use this excuse to attempt to cover up a storm in a teacup:

“A junior staffer was overzealous in the interpretation of the rules.”

The issue was the advanced notification to the awaiting Australian ambassador to France that his gay partner not be on the the runway when Tony emerged from the plane from Gallipoli.

Now don’t you just wish that I could have said that to the copper yesterday that penalised me for driving a car one day out of registration?

“Listen mate, you’re being overzealous in the interpretation of the rules.”

The result would have very likely been that he would have zealously interpreted a few more rules against my favour.

I just don’t think that this very rational approach cuts it any more in the land of the regressive taxation.