The premier suggests we start focusing on what he says is important stuff.

It is a tall order.

You see, a lot of people don’t like Toryland.

Even a lot of folks who vote PC don’t like Toryland.

They don’t like the stink and there’s been so much stink when something happens that’s stinky it gets our attention.

When we smell some more of it we say: “Aha! There it is. Must be Toryland.”

Toryland has seen more than its fair share of idiots who have mismanaged our money and liars who haven’t come clean with the truth.

Then there’s the seemingly endless conga line of the entitled, shameless about taking Albertans for a ride, hoping no one gets wise while their sizable snouts are taking their turn at the trough.

Of course, an individual outrage passes but every new whiff of the stink erodes confidence in those who have presided over Toryland.

Then came Premier Prentice.

Remember back not so many months ago when Prentice rocked in the polls undoing a few of the latest stunts Toryland pulled.

It was the tip of the iceberg, low hanging fruit it was called.

Selling the provincial government planes, scrapping the stupid licence plate scheme — gripes the premier heard when running for PC leader.

But even these obvious and small measures in the grand scheme of things met with rousing approval.

“Attaboy, Jim! You show him, Jim!”

Prentice was the new broom sweeping out the Toryland closet.

But we don’t hear much from the broom anymore.

We hear about budget plans and how the NDP are the Orange Menace leading us to the gates of hell if not the Lake of Fire.

We also hear of a guy named Jamie Lall, getting cut out of a chance to be the PC candidate in Chestermere-Rocky View right after Danielle Smith and two other Wildrose turncoats lose their nominations.

We get suspicious this Lall guy is being dumped, at least in part, so Chestermere’s homegrown defector and now PC politician Bruce McAllister doesn’t meet the fate of Smith and the others.

The PCs say no way.

But texts to Lall hit the streets this week.

The PC brass didn’t want him.

Jonathan Denis, then the justice minister, tells Lall the party is setting him up.

Denis confirms in a text how Lall is being bounced because Smith lost and the party bigwigs don’t want McAllister to go down the same way.

On Wednesday, a news-hound goes after Prentice on the Denis emails.

The premier talks about Denis for five seconds.

“Mr. Denis can explain himself in due course,” he says.

Prentice shifts to speaking of the Wildrose and the dreaded NDP.

Bam!

Another question from a newshound talks about Denis and his dispute with his estranged wife.

The courts say we can’t talk about it.

Prentice gives an answer he’s given before.

Then this ink-stained wretch asks Prentice what he thinks of these questions and what’s important.

The premier says the economy and jobs are important.

He is at Tundra Process Solutions where there’s all kinds of industrial equipment around.

“I’m sure if you asked all of the people behind me who work at Tundra whether they’re concerned about the economy and jobs or whether they’re concerned about Chestermere-Rocky View and somebody called Jamie Lall and text messages that went back and forth I’m pretty sure what they’ll tell you.”

“I encourage everybody in the media to get back to what is critical to the people of this province.”

Then Prentice goes after the Wildrose.

He says they have no plan.

He goes after the NDP.

He says they have a “destructive” plan.

Next question.

A newshound asks how Fort McMurray PC MLA Mike Allen, guilty of soliciting a hooker, gets to be a PC candidate and Lall doesn’t.

Not again.

“You’re going to ask about the economy, right?” says Prentice.

Prentice speaks briefly on Allen before getting back to what he wants to talk about.

“What kind of a government do we want here?”

For the moment, tawdry Toryland is on hold.

Later in the day, Wildrose leader Brian Jean makes his pitch at Sun HQ.

At one point Jean says: “I come to Calgary and it’s scandal after scandal. I know what it does to me. It makes my stomach churn.”

Jean’s stomach isn’t churning over the Prentice budget plan though he opposes it.

His stomach isn’t churning over Prentice as a leader though he believes he can do better.

No, his stomach churns over Toryland.

He is not alone.