Tony will lead the Coalition down into the abyss. All adorned with tools and with head lamps blazing. On the way down they pass Kevin and the Labor crew climbing back out of the hole - all dejected and filthy - stinking and covered in sh!t.

There'll be a cry of "It's deeper than we thought! - forget all those promises! But we'll fix it, we'll just have to be down here for longer than we thought".

And they'll toil away for a time - and soon they'll also find themselves in a state of being dejected, on the nose and covered in sh!t.