Kermit said “Frankly I find even the remotest association with those stooges hurtful and offensive”.

Not known for his litigious nature, Kermit the Frog has been so incensed by absurd and inflammatory comparisons between the Liberal Party and The Muppet Show that he’s taking the Australian PM to court for reputational damage.

Kermit said “We have empathy, intelligence, creativity, talent and vision, all qualities about which the Liberal Party couldn’t even dream."

Here’s vision of how the Muppets reacted when they heard the Australian PM had compared them to his band of corrupt planet-burning super-villains.

Thankfully The Muppets have since seen the latest Newspoll results and as a result they’ve written this song.