I do not trust Howes as far as I could throw him, he is a turncoat (remember his utterances during the ALP Government?). He is a moral pigmy whose first interests are the Union movement and himself. He will not change the ALP's problesm which are found deep in their Union roots that dominate Parliament. The union movement has given the Fed ALP no talent at all in Parliament hence the quagmire they are in.
