Barnaby Joyce on Monday: “We’re importing more of our food, especially from the good people of south-east Asia … I’ve got nothing against them but I was kind of the mind that we would be feeding them, not them feeding us.”

Barnaby Joyce on Tuesday: “The ceiling insulation program, they are burning down houses as we speak, there are calamities happening around the suburbs near where we are … Maybe if they burn down enough houses, we can re-boot the economy by building them again.”

Barnaby Joyce today: “Oh well, obviously you are concerned when the miniature of a story of a, it becomes the generality of it. When irony apparently becomes the mainstay of a statement, when people say that they don’t want white bread politicians but, and then, in fact they demand them.”

And it’s still only Wednesday.