Political Pundits Down Under

I thought it only happened in Britain but it seems that there are journalists in Australia who live off the backs of politicians in the same way they do in Britain.

I am watching a programme at the moment on Australia Network and there is a coven of blethering types going on and on about politicians and politics as if they know what they are talking about.

Riddled with giggly comments and cutting remarks, it's dreadful television. No doubt these people are the Fleet Street equivalents who sit in their offices for decades and eventually rise to the top of the pile. That gives them massive salaries and a captive audience. Just like our lot.

There is currently a segment in which two ne'er do wells are guffawing at some photographs of some ne'er do well politician.

As the young Irishman I met last week might say, the should get themselves a ****ing proper job.

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