That'd be our Clive!
Sitting down?.... he's running for Parliarment this election, with the stated intention of being Prime Minister. He'll even get a few votes. Some of his ideas hold water but you can't run a Country on a couple of ideas.
Like most of us he doesn't like any of the political Parties around now so he started his own. I'm not sure but it may be more than coincidence that it's called the Palmer United Party. PUP for short..... there's an old saying here that if you're being offered a dodgy deal you're "being sold a pup."
Bears thinking about.
He's a multi of course. Mining magnate of which we have a few, all in their way intriguing characters. He's not as silly as he looks and sounds though. You don't get that rich for being stupid, unless you're in the entertainment industry.
That Titanic thing has people wanting to book on it off the blueprints. It'll be for 5 star high rollers only and will pull all those with the money, but not the bravery, to book on a spaceflight. It's not your island cruise ship deal, this will cost the average house for dinner with the Captain.
The main bone of contention about it is that he's getting it built in China. We simply don't have the capacity to build ships like that any more... which is his point of wanting to be PM to fix that little shortcoming... mmmm bit convoluted but he has a point. Although there are a lot of priorities ahead of a shipyard that need fixing.
He's thinking of building a Jurassic Park too. Just what we need, more dinosaurs.
Still and all, we do need those larger than life characters around to keep the real world in perspective don't we?