Howard Admits IR Reforms Freaked People Out; Also Explains: Water Wet, Fire Hot

Prime Minister John Howard’s election chances are looking shaky for anything other than a sympathy fuck vote, as he admitted to 7.30 Report sexpot Kerry O’Brien last night that the IR reforms left Australians “uneasy” and “unnerved people”.

Howard also took a moment to do his best Tangina from Poltergeist impression, telling Kerry about the vibes he picks up from opinion polls, i.e. that what the polls are saying is not what they actually mean, or something like that.

“I don’t believe they (opinion polls) are telling me the Government is terminal. I don’t believe they’re telling me I ought to go,” he said.

“I believe they are telling me, ‘You’ve been a good Government but we want more from you about the future’. I hear that message and I intend to respond.”

Rumours that, in a desperate move to be seen as hip and with it to the MTV generation, Howard was planning to team up with Jackie Stallone for a celebreality show about esoteric psychics could not be confirmed at time of press.