Dear Shadow Minister,

You wrote;

“This is from the greens party that is too high to recognise reality?”

Bit rich don't you think?

At least they are not too drunk to turn up to vote on important legislation.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-25/abbott-too-drunk-to-vote-turnbull-responds/8841902

Steele, as it applies to workers, if you're found drunk on the job, you get the sack. Maybe Abbott could do the honorable thing and resign. Sorrrrrrry, I said honorable thing, and Abbott in the same breath, please forgive me.
leoj is big on applying the same rules to (Green) parliamentarians as they apply to the ordinary works. He'll be along soon demanding Abbott's head as well. As if!

Barnyard Barney is running second in the Kiwi vote for New Zealander of the year.

SR,

So TA overslept one morning 8 years ago and that's the best you've got? There are plenty of stories about MPs turning up drunk, so much so that Labor was considering breath testing its MPs at one point.

Nothing about Shanghai Sam soliciting bribes from China and still being in cabinet, or Syph Hansen Young being goofed enough to blame the next ISIS attack on PH?

Dear Shadow Minister,

You may think it okay to turn up to work inebriated, I don't. Especially when you are doing it on the tax payer's dime.

But our Tony couldn't even manage that. He was pissed to the point of being completely comatose, unable to be roused.

Added to the fact that attending parliament is hardly a year round job. In fact it involves, on average, about 60 days of attendance, in other words the equivalent of 12 normal weeks. If you can't manage to remain sober for that then you should expect censure.

I also found it interesting, but perhaps not unsurprising, that the sanctimonious prat Kevin Andrews was in the cohort.

SR,

I don't believe people should turn up to work inebriated, and that didn't happen. TA overslept and missed one vote that wouldn't have made a difference in a long day.

At the roughly the same time, Shorten was ripping $ms from clean event employees for a union backhander, and Thomson was spending union dues on prostitutes.