Doubling Downer

Mayo is in for another Downer as Georgina is set to be re-endorsed as the Nasty Party candidate for the forthcoming federal election, after losing in the seat last weekend.

Nasty preselectors sure have their heads screwed on in a funny way if they think that is a good idea. All sorts of people from the hill tribes were interviewed by the news website, one of whom said: “I don’t think Georgina will ever win the seat – and someone needs to sit her down and tell her that her name is disastrously working against her.”

Another unnamed source said that Father Fishnets Downer “should have kept right out of it”. This all suggests the allure of the Downer blood may be about 200 years past its use-by date.

The Nasty Party nominations for seats in South Australia close on Wednesday. Until the next election it’s anticipated that Georgina will return to her groundbreaking research work for the Institute of Paid Advocacy along with her scintillating appearances on the ABC’s The Drum.

It’s all a bit trying because it means she’ll have to reconfigure her views on issues such as the ABC and carbon emissions to fit the dark money mould of the institute, before she re-moderates them again for the Mayo electorate.

Nation building is such a tortuous business.