In the Daily Telegraph, their scribe Kate reports:
THOSE poor old former Howard government ministers. Only months ago they cried they weren't being paid enough and needed a rise.
We were told they were doing it tough - and now there's proof.
Unable to afford even a $55 restaurant meal, ex-ministers now have to resort to eating half-eaten food straight off the plate of strangers.
And I can vouch for this. It happened to happen to me.
Oh my. Who could this be? She's too polite to say:
Out of my seat for a quick toilet break, one nameless ex-minister had no trouble keeping my seat warm on Tuesday night.
But of course the OC is willing to name names.
It was former Rhodes Scholar, former Federal Minister of the Crown, Prime Ministerial aspirant Tony Abbott according to several appalled witnesses who shared their concerns with the OC.
Perhaps he was trying to demonstrate just how serious he was about the need to pay MP's more.
While perhaps demonstrating that he is not so much prime ministerial material as a complete pig. Oink oink.
Game on.
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