The LNP apologist who writes the preview for the 6pm Channel 9 News in Brisbane at the end of Millionaire Hot Seat has been at it again.

The MGH will be relying on memory only because we couldn’t find the exact words on 9Now but Melissa Downes said something like this last night: “Coming up in two minutes, Labor breaks a major promise in last night’s Budget”.

This is all guesswork but we think the writer of that bullshit is referring to this all-pervasive obsession from Peter Costello and the Opposition since the election that Labor has broken a promise to reduce household power bills by $275 by 2025. Yes, you read right. 2025.

And why the guesswork? Because the main bulletin doesn’t repeat this “major promise broken” line.

The MGH has pointed before to the biased thrust of those promos at the end of MHS: some time ago, poor dear Mellisa had to declare that Queenslanders everywhere were shocked by something the Labor Palaszczuk state government had done. Sorry, Tim Arvier – the corrupt, incompetent, out of time, out of puff Palaszczuk government. That better, Tim?

The full bulletin revealed that the Queenslanders shocked were Opposition Leader David Crisafulli and Jarrod Bleijie.

Clearly, the writer of these news promos is hellbent on leaving an anti-Labor message in the minds of viewers.

The very idea that the Albanese government has broken a promise to do something by 2025 is laughable and absurd. A totally illogical lie, really. Then again, maybe Dutton and Co. think they are still in government when blatant lies and bullshit worked well for quite a while. They’ve been firing away with it relentlessly as if they’ve got nothing else in their armoury.

Labor’s first Budget in almost a decade has given the Opposition some good lines of attack. Albanese promised on the hustings not to leave any one behind. They will now be left behind as his government has decided to tackle inflation first.

And it’s true the government also looks set to pay a price politically as well down the track seeing the Budget forecasts for power bills over the next few years make their $275 promise very shaky indeed. But that’s then; not now.

And seeing the Morrison government changed the rules to hide from Australians the big hike in power prices that happened after the May election, and given their own pathetic track record of broken promises about cheaper electricity during their time in power when prices soared, you’d think they’d have enough good sense to modify their language about ‘broken promises’ just now.

And if Channel 9 News were the professional, balanced and ethical news outfit they probably think they are, they’d tell that LNP apologist to desist immediately from making poor dear Melissa read out shit that she as a long-time professional knows full well is pure, unadulterated, shit.