Shorten talks in the one-liners of a life-long union thug.
He says a one-liner zinger, which he then expects to be met with a typical flourish of grunts, swearing, and jeering that a union crowd would give him. Trouble is he's generally talking to politics students in their mid-20s who are now journalists. They're not really capable of shouting out the "Fk 'ems" that a typical union crowd would bay.
And because he talks in one liners who can not continue a theme as a paragraph. Just disjointed one-line zingers of no substance because that's all a union crowd can concentrate on.
