Poor old slippery Pete must now be uncertain of his future life style.
Looks like the locals about to attempt a lyching.
Poor old bugger. He must be a nervous wreck.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/speaker-proves-a-slippery-character/story-e6freon6-1226209651149
Poor old slippery Pete must now be uncertain of his future life style.
Looks like the locals about to attempt a lyching.
Poor old bugger. He must be a nervous wreck.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/speaker-proves-a-slippery-character/story-e6freon6-1226209651149
So determined was the Federal Member for Fisher to give reporters the slip that he failed to show up at an Australian Tidy Towns Awards function at Caloundra yesterday.
The new Federal Parliament Speaker, installed after Labor stalwart Harry Jenkins' shock resignation last week, has resigned from the LNP - boosting both Prime Minister Julia Gillard's control of the hung Parliament and Mr Slipper's pay packet by about $75,000.
An hour after his no-show at the Caloundra event yesterday, The Courier-Mail spotted the honourable MP circling the car park outside a Dan Murphy's liquor outlet, 100m from his electorate office.
This was shortly after his constituent co-ordinator Michelle Ellis denied knowing whether her boss was even in Queensland.
When waved down in the car park, Mr Slipper refused to stop before taking a convoluted route, around a few blocks and through the Kawana Shoppingworld car park, back to his office.
In his rush to get inside the building, Mr Slipper pulled up on an angle, across two car spaces and fled inside via a side door while refusing to stop and speak. Mr Slipper's staff came outside and moved his car twice during the afternoon.
Probably trying to organise his xmas present for Julia, a box of fruit elixia. Those Dan Murphy car parks can be a bugger to find a parking spot.
New Speaker Peter Slipper has objected to being depicted as a rat for twice deserting his party and experts agree. Rats are actually much nicer than disloyal pollies.
The president of the Warringah Rats rugby union team Mike Sheeran said comparing Mr Slipper with a rat was giving rats a bad name.
"It's completely derogatory," he said.
"It's definitely hurting the brand. Being associated with any sort of politician is an incredible insult."
US expert Debbie "The Rat Lady" Ducommun, who runs the Rat Fan Club, said attributing Mr Slipper's type of behaviour to rats was unfair on the rodents.
"The use of the word "rat" to describe someone who is unsavoury is based on an erroneous idea of what rats are really like," she told The Daily Telegraph from her base in California.
Brisbane band the Dune Rats also said they liked rats better than politicians.
"I've never once been lied to by a rat," singer and guitarist Danny Beusa said.
Ratcat could not be reached for comment.
Slipper is the classic maverick. They want Mal Brough back, and a good man, why wouldn't they. So Slipper I'm sure within the LNP has had some pretty rough tactics against him. He was already the Deputy Speaker. Given his history, surely this was a conceivable outcome for the Coalition.
Barring some Act of God or Rudd's hypothetical resignation, I believe the 'latte coalition' minority govt was going to go full term anyway.
But as others have said, this story has more to run. A maverick as Speaker, be careful what you wish for ALP and the Greens. Three net effects:
- Kevin Rudd now can't hold a figurative gun to the head of the govt
- Andrew Wilkie has two chances of getting his preferred style of pokies reform
- Parliamentary sittings will become even more of a freakshow
Something else, if all the pollies vote themselves a 30% pay rise, why single Peter Slipper out? Who are they to criticize him?
MP Peter Slipper's electorate office on the Sunshine Coast has been vandalised.
Graffiti appeared this morning after the local member for Fisher, known as "Slippery Pete", wrote to his constituents defending his decision to defect from the Liberal National Party to take up the position of Speaker in the Federal Parliament.
The insults "grub", "slimeball", "loser", "wanker" and "rsole" have been spraypainted on the glass windows of his Buddina electorate office. Devil horns have been drawn on his pictures.
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Can't wait for the next siiting of parliament.
Month of December.You need to focus on your friends a little. Who is really special and will make the cut for 2012 and who is going to be left behind in 2011? And you also really do need to focus on yourself this month. Express yourself, take some time out for fun and generally remember that you're as important as everyone else.
I would urge posters to have some respect for the Speaker, and to refrain from bringing him in to disrepute.
gg
Slippery is an Aquarian, and I took the liberty of checking one of his faviurite magazines, Madison, to which he subscribes as part of his parliamentary entitlement, to check his horoscope for the month.
It is short and to the point.
Month of December.You need to focus on your friends a little. Who is really special and will make the cut for 2012 and who is going to be left behind in 2011? And you also really do need to focus on yourself this month. Express yourself, take some time out for fun and generally remember that you're as important as everyone else.
Slippery needs to have more fun, it has been a busy year.
I would urge posters to have some respect for the Speaker, and to refrain from bringing him in to disrepute.
gg
A rat caught in the headlights with his hand in the cookie jar:
If you're no longer sure what you want to do, do everything you can to keep your options open. The end of this year is all about you working out what really matters to you, and how you want to live in 2012. Who is it most important to please – yourself or others? Financially this is the week to heal any fear you have re: cash, for example - budgeting too hard or ignoring bills.
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