I was expecting something horrific. Not that. It's preposterous enough to make sense...
The last ten years have been almost as if every employee at QF walked under a ladder and saw a black cat in front of them all at the same time.
Larry Pickering's take:
PIGGY PONDERS HIS POLITICAL PROSPECTS
The man who handed us Julia Gillard has lately been trying to distance himself from union corruption. Recently he has been talking some unusual common sense that runs foul of his Trotsky ideals and gives Bill Shorten a solid back hander.
He opted out of the QANTAS furore where he could easily have caused CEO Joyce some serious pain. Has Paul had an epiphany on the road to Damascus? Is he over the corrupt union movement?
Has he had it with the faceless men and his crooked AWU warlords, Ludwig and Shorten?
Maybe the Royal Commission into union corruption is causing him nightmares? No, Piggy wasn’t as involved as others were, and still are, but he was required to defend the endemic corruption, as is Bill Shorten. It goes with the job.
The real cause of Piggy’s epiphany is his new, not-so-secret love, QANTAS Marketing Director, Olivia Wirth.
To put it bluntly, Piggy has done his knackers over Olivia. He’s head over heels in love with a mature woman of much higher status and one he thought he would never have a chance with.
Piggy has been a changed man since he turned up at the Melbourne Spring racing carnival hand in hand with Olivia and ready to mix it with the moneyed toffs.
All previous interviews expressing his devotion to his wife and family were lost in the arms and thighs of Olivia.
His coming interviews will now reflect Julia's thoughts that Labor has lost its way.
Make no mistake, Piggy is now prepared to, and will, burn his former boss, Bill Shorten
Subsequent pillow talk has convinced Piggy of Labor’s fatal flaws and he now intends entering Parliament as a cleanskin, without the stench that stalks his former boss, Bill Shorten.
Alan Joyce said of the relationship: "People have private lives and they are entitled to whatever relations they want to have and I think organisations and unions are sophisticated enough beasts to manage the process to avoid conflict." Hmmm, perhaps Alan was also referring to his own relationship of a different kind.
Nonetheless, the attractive Olivia has opted for lying awake, counting boogas in Piggy’s ample nasal cavities.
Ain’t love grand? Oh well, it sure is blind.