Here is some advice for Kevin Rudd . Forget your worship of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Christian invocation to turn the other cheek . For Alexander Downer to turn upon you after you okayed a job for him in Cyprus , and now say he did not think much of you all along must be galling in the extreme .
So, with your vast knowledge of Chinese culture , including the ancient art of inserting bamboo slivers under finger nails, suggest you do the following. One dark night , when Alexander is lining up in Adelaide for a ghastly pie floater , you emerge , dressed like Inspector Clouseau’s crazed Asian manservant , a fully paid up member of the AWU’s brutal Tong Hit Brigade, and go berserk like a delinquent Karate Kid . Work him over properly and tripe will be on the menu for a month .
The new dragon lady in charge of the Forbidding City would also be advised to clear out all the other Coalition hasbeens given jobs by the former PM if , as it seems, they think it is their God given right to be given a sinecure and make disparaging remarks about their benefactor .
