Well, it’s going to be an irritating few months before the next NSW election.

We had hints of it with the last NSW budget – a smorgasbord of desperate, ad-hoc Liberal giveaways with a pale wash of fairness-goo slapped over it.

Now we see the decades-late acknowledgement of ordinary people’s concerns over immigration with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s partial address of the issue this week.