Andrew Wilkie

It looks like Andrew Wilkie is going to pick up Denison in Tasmania - and that will be a great outcome for Tasmania and for the Nation.

Andrew is a smart person and will be a capable and valuable member of the Parliament.

The interesting thing is that he was one of the first to expose the Howard Government's lies about going to war in Iraq - and it turned out that he was right. Remember when little Johnny used to be known as Honest John - not after this debacle he wasn't. The Liberal's hated that - they were used to getting away with deceiving the people and they tried very hard to silence him. It's unlikely he will have forgotten that.

But the even more interesting thing is that Labor has just lost Denison - to Andrew. While they were off chasing the Bogan vote in NSW and QLD and WA and ducking and weaving around boat people - the thinking voters of Denison had second thoughts. Hilarious.

There is a serious message to all politicians in this - and it simply is:

"If you want to go down market and play populist politics then you had better get a lot smarter about shoring up the thinking voters - or they will give you the flick".

And it looks like they did. Double Hilarious.