THE OUTCOME OF PM'S DISASTROUS SLOGANEERING

  Rex Murphy:   But words from this government are like fairground balloons: they float upwards because they are so light. If there were a carbon tax on platitudes, this government would be broke. There is not a progressive piety it has left unexpressed, or a self-congratulation that’s been left unspoken. Recall that vivid moment when the prime minister was asked why he went with “gender equity” in cabinet and gave that immortal rejoinder, “because it’s 2015.” That wasn’t an answer, it was a self-administered pat on the back. It’s unsaid meaning was, “Hey, we’re Liberals and we are always in tune with the times, unlike those backward Conservatives with all their prejudices and biases and stick-in-the-mud social attitudes.”