Bring Back Tony

Whilst having a beer with Tony I told him that I was a fan and that he should make a comeback.

I was being truthful.

Apart from being very entertaining, Tony was a train wreck for consumer confidence upon which our services-led economy feeds.

This meant depressed consumption, less greenhouse gas emissions, less foreign debt, and downward pressure on the Australian dollar, which is good for me since I run an export business.

If the economy was depressed for long enough, in sheer desperation some others might actually start figuring out how to develop and export high tech products and services.

So you see, if you could look past the embarrassment factor, Tony was good for us.

Malcolm the Second, on the other hand, has learned from his prior failures in politics that his is a role in which he cannot depart from the script.

He will appease the business sector and the proletariat by measuring every action by its impact on promoting consumer confidence.

And there will be absolutely no serious effort to create real change of any sort in the economy except to increase the GST so that government can do even more inefficiently that which shouldn’t be done at all.