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Leave Mark alone!!!!!1!!!!11!!!1

Thursday 6 March 2008, 11:40 am

The Editor

Categories: Politics

Tags: AlexanderDowner, MarkVaile, PeterCostello, superannuation

Just like the chick in that famous Britney YouTube video there is at least one punter who thinks that everyone should just leave Mark Vaile alone.

Bob Barnes, 61, didn’t care if Mr Vaile was still getting his parliamentary wage or not.

“He’s been working hard for years, he’s the best elected member anyone could (wish for).

“Give him a little break — leave poor old Mark alone.”

And I reckon that Bob’s right. Vaile, Downer, Costello et. al. have every moral right to spend their days working to secure post-politics employment as consultants with six or seven figure salaries while simultaneously drawing their Parliamentary salary and benefits for work they’re not doing and have no intention of ever doing again. I mean, just look at poor old Mark who’s taken a $100,000 hit to his pay after being demoted from deputy PM to opposition backbencher. I’m sure he’s hurting just as much as Alexander and Peter who also have mouths to feed and share portfolios to build. Their need to secure future employment far outweighs any obligation they have to serve the people who voted them into Parliament to represent them. Not the mention the bruises to their egos suffered after those nasty voters gave them and their kind the arse.

I mean, it’s not like the three of them could retire tomorrow and instantly access offensively large lifetime superannuation payouts to tide them over the few months it would take to land another job.

18 Comments

Ant Rogenous (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:04 pm) #

People of Bob Barnes’ political hue like to bang on about the shameful ways their (exorbitant) taxes are spent and wasted. Where does their indignation disappear when someone like Vaile begins flagrantly rorting the system?
Dave from Albury (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:22 pm) #

Rorts by conservatives are A-OK, because the money would be otherwise wasted by damn hippie lefty scum.
The Editor (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:24 pm) #

I pay GST on my lattes to fund these people’s salaries.

* spit *
Wah (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:28 pm) #

Now Wilson Tuckey has fessed up that he’s off to China to lobby for the Australian wheat?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/06/2181603.htm

How can this be allowed to happen. Surely there’s masssive conflict of interest issues here as well as the fact that they should be doing the job they have been fucking elected to do!
If Vaile is hurting just fuck off and call a by-election. The longer he hangs around the more super he gets. Why aren’t we burning buildings down over this.

Why are we obsessed with politicians attending strip clubs or once having smoked dope and not this?
The Editor (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:31 pm) #

Dead right, Wah. Plus the fact that the hypocritical bastards attack Rudd for having a Friday of Parliament to visit indigenous communities but the indignation over this is, at best, muted.
Dave from Albury (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:33 pm) #

The Nats have bigger problems than Vaile swanning about. When he does go, his seat is almost guaranteed to be snapped up by the state MP Rob Oakeshott.
Dave from Albury (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:35 pm) #

Rob Oakeshott is an independant BTW
The Editor (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:36 pm) #

Edging closer and closer to irrelevancy.

Awesome.
Skeptic (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:41 pm) #

Talking of Wilson Tuckey, this potential gem of a T-shirt from crikey.com is too good not to share with all the good people at Grods:

Is that an arse on your shoulders or are you Wilson Tuckey?
The Editor (Thursday 6 March 2008, 12:43 pm) #

That’s awesome. I will use that at my next possible opportunity.
Bridgit Gread (Thursday 6 March 2008, 1:10 pm) #

Wilson Tuckey has fessed up that he’s off to China to lobby for the Australian wheat

The nation would be better served by sending Australian wheat to lobby for Australian wheat.
Mao (Thursday 6 March 2008, 1:27 pm) #

Its Tuckeys lectures on a cruise that is a step too far!
The Editor (Thursday 6 March 2008, 1:29 pm) #

It’s like me taking a day off work and giving lectures on teaching at the pub instead.
Bron (Thursday 6 March 2008, 2:21 pm) #

“It’s like me taking a day off work and giving lectures on teaching at the pub instead.”

Don’t you already do that?
The Editor (Thursday 6 March 2008, 2:31 pm) #

Of course not, Bron. I’m very professional.
Mao (Thursday 6 March 2008, 3:53 pm) #

lectures down the pub..

isn’t that called ‘University’ ?
John Surname (Thursday 6 March 2008, 10:39 pm) #

I knew Mao would eventually turn up to TrotsCorp.
krypto (Thursday 6 March 2008, 11:39 pm) #

he might as well try out for other jobs, he’s never going to hold another office besides being member for buggery-whoop as long as he lives.