In New South Wales the state Labor government is about as on-the-nose with the electorate as it’s possible to be, and it’s only the comparable incompetence of the Liberals that makes an ALP victory at the 2011 election a possibility. Groupthink reader “E”, who once sent Leader of the Opposition Barry O’Farrell an email (to which she never received a reply), was bemused to yesterday receive this email — reproduced in its entirety — from the great man himself.

Consider that one extra vote, Barry.