Innovation Minister Christopher Pyne was in fine form on Channel Ten’s The Project last night, extolling the joys of wearing a knitted vest while calling voters and the achievement of mowing the lawns. News Corp political editor Samantha Maiden also praised Pyne, saying that he would be on her “bomb shelter list”:

“If you were going to be bombed or die, he would be on my bomb shelter list because he would be enormously good company and he has such a survival instinct that he would call in air support, pull out a rusty knife to fight off attackers. As long as you could actually hang on to the parachute and he didn’t flick you off, you’d live.”

It’s quite the endorsement and got us wondering which politicians we would want in our bomb shelter. If you have a creative answer about who you would have in your bomb shelter and why, drop us a line, and we’ll publish the most interesting ones over the next few days.