Will This Tradie Rapping In His Underwear Be Victoria’s Next Premier?
With less than a day until Victoria votes, a new frontrunner has emerged.
Call off all Victorian election coverage now, it has ceased to be of any use. As of Friday afternoon, experts everywhere are predicting an overwhelming victory for independent Upper House candidate Jeff Bartram, who will be called upon to form a new government after polls close tomorrow evening.
Bartram, a political outsider running in the Eastern Victoria region, took Victoria’s political establishment by surprise when his campaign video ‘Tradesman’s Entrance (Goen To Uni)’ not only sold platinum copies and racked up hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, but catapulted Bartram to the front of the race ahead of current Premier Denis Napthine and Labor leader Daniel Andrews.
Released only two weeks before polling day, ‘Tradesman’s Entrance’ saw Bartram’s popularity soar among Victorians of all demographics and political persuasions; a recent poll saw 91 percent of Victorians list Bartram as preferred Premier, with 74 percent naming him as preferred Prime Minister and a solid minority of 35 percent requesting Australia’s model of parliamentary democracy be done away with in favour of Bartram being made President for Life.
No doubt you’ve either heard it a thousand times on TV, radio, in the workplace and the club by now, but for the sake of rigorous political reporting, here is ‘Tradesman’s Entrance (Goen To Uni)’.