Barnaby Joyce

 Barnaby Joyce is in the news again. I pretty much agree with what michelle grattan has written.

I anm no fan of Joyce. i always thought him over-rates as a retail politician and always thought him a fraud.

The National party vote has essentially remained the same whether he was leader or not. on various issues he has championed he hasn't moved the electorate at all.

He started to wear a  large 'cowboy' hat and show off using a whip to try and portray himself as a farmer. He never was. He was an accountant in a regional city. He di not seek out farmers as clients nor did he give a discount to farmers if they became clients.

So we come to now. joyce does not seem to realise he is over the hill. He wants to be on the front bench but won't say whom he should replace. He is very big on being very anti net zero. Just on this he apparently has no idea on how expensive coal powered stations are nor understands how  unreliable they are!

One party has surged in the polls since the election BUT at the expense of the Liberal party not the ALP. Their leader is 71 and looks older. They do not have a lot of people on the ground to hand out leaflets come voting day so it is very unlikely they could replace the Liberal party. Moreover they only appeal to a small subset of the electorate.

If Joyce is going to One Nation he should be wary there are more internal fights there than I have had hot dinners. He might succeed Hanson but he also could eventually have a war with her!