The plan!

 Look!  I have a plan,’ NSW opposition leader Chris Minns says.

‘And I can prove it.  See?  Here, I have a glossy pamphlet that says so right on its front cover.  See?  It says P L A N, plan.  Proof right in my hands!’

Will this audacious election strategy prove popular with the voters?  Will they believe the front man for One Armed Bandits NSW, the brash presence in the third tier of the premier crime state, will do something even remotely less predictable than the other parliamentary gangsters?

It’s true that Coalition capo di tutti capi Perrottet seems to have run out of steam, and his heavies have all the authority of a bag of prawns that’s been sitting in the sun for a couple of days.

Nevertheless, the question remains: will Minns and his soldiers do anything remotely new and fresh, or will it just be a change of faces raking in the graft and corruption?

The top tier gangs, meeting around corporate board room tables, don’t really seem to care which way it goes.  Fourth tier gangs only want to know whether Minns will be more theatrical in his mob’s panto productions about stopping crime, even though they all know it’ll be business as usual.

Cops on the take will continue to arrest extinction rebellion demonstrators, not crooks or murderers, and redouble their efforts to kill off any actual reportage of corruption rather than preventing it.

The rest of us are kept guessing.  Have the new lot got what it takes to get the keys to treasury with a vote of confidence from the bourgeoisie?  ‘Here, we want you to be the ones robbing us blind.’

Best advice to Minns?  Get another smart and shiny sharkskin suit.  And keep up the alligator smiles as you hold up that glossy plan prop.