I am absolutely dumbstruck: I've just seen Kim Beazley give a doorstop at which he expressed his sincerest condolences and best wishes to Karl Rove on the passing of his wife Belinda Emmett. I then had to run out of the room, but I presume he went on to express his sorrow at the recent deaths of wildlife warrior Steve Liebmann and Victorian Premier Peter Brocks.

By the distraught look on his face, I adduce that Kim might also have thought that Karl Rove was married to Dr Emmett Brown from Back to the Future. Honestly, since when did we get an Opposition leader who makes statements on an intellectual par with Mariah Carey?

What are we to do, when the impending choice is between the Devil and an eejit?