It is something I don’t do often – I probably haven’t done it in more than a year – but I happened to be in the room when the Seven-Thirty Report was interviewing Mark Textor. He, in case you didn’t know, ran David Cameron’s polling during the election. The pleasure in watching him bat away everything asked by the interviewer was astonishing, since he is not a political person as such.

I actually think the Libs have got it, but we won’t really know until tomorrow night. He talked about the need to “reward hard-working families”. He talked about the need to raise productivity. He dismissed the “politics of envy” as a sure loser.

If the government can work it out that only the private sector, on its own without government subsidy, can cause the economy to grow, they will do well. If they think that ridiculous infrastructure spending adventures – crony capitalism plus new versions of the NBN – will pull the economy forward, then they still don’t get it and they will not do well.

This morning in the papers it was all about chopping back the public sector. And then, if the ALP decides to stop these changes, there should be one continuous campaign against the wreckage left by Labor, a series of problems they caused which they now get in the way of allowing others to fix up.