Dopeshott and Whiner

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2 turds spiralling down the chute to political oblivion...
Couldn't happen to 2 more useless individuals; the idiot and the bitter and twisted old hypocrite.

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National Party candidate for New England, Barnaby Joyce, has released a statement on Mr Windsor's retirement:

"When you are on the football paddock you always have immense respect for the toughest of players that you come across in politics. They do not come any tougher than the member for New England. I have never doubted his focus on the people of new England. At times, obviously, I questioned his mechanism, but today is his."

(No, I'm not quite sure what Senator Joyce means in that last sentence either but that's word for word from his statement.)

Mr Windsor's retirement makes Barnaby Joyce almost a dead certain to take out the lower house seat of New England in September. This would mean, just for argument's sake, that Mr Joyce could take on Warren Truss for leadership of the National Party should the fancy strike him. (Leadership of parties traditionally goes to a lower house MP.)
Barnaby Joyce during a State of Origin tribute rugby match at Parliament House on Wednesday.

Barnaby Joyce during a State of Origin tribute rugby match at Parliament House on Wednesday. Photo: Andrew Meares
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10:40am: Just in case anyone is wondering, independent MP Andrew Wilkie is not retiring.

"Andrew still plans to recontest Denison and the federal election and is certainly not about to announce his political retirement," Mr Wilkie's spokesman says.


10:36am: Prime Minister Julia Gillard has issued statements on the retirements of Mr Windsor and Mr Oakeshott.

Of Mr Windsor she says: "Tony Windsor long ago earned the respect and affection of his community in New England. In the past three years he had earned the respect and affection of many Australian from all political persuasions. Millions will be sorry to see him depart the Parliament at the coming election and I will be one of them."

Of Mr Oakeshott she says: "Rob Oakeshott is a man of energy and ideas whose fundamental optimism for Australia endears him to almost everyone who knows him ... He is still a young man with a young family and I know how much he is looking forward to being at home ... Rob smiles easily and wears his heart on his sleeve and politics could do with more of that, not less."

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Good riddance! Pity they still get a huge taxpayer Pension until they die though!