Blow to Canberra restaurants as Clive plans to commute

chewy14 said :

poetix said :

He will be around for lunch…However, I think that those of us who see $10 as a fair amount of dosh will be saved from competing with Mr Palmer for the last curry.

After watching an interview with him the other week, he likes to eat pies and sausage rolls for breakfast.

Yes, but he only does that to protect against being kidnapped via a Chinese submarine.

The man is mental. Anyone who voted for him should be ashamed.

chewy14 said :

poetix said :

He will be around for lunch…However, I think that those of us who see $10 as a fair amount of dosh will be saved from competing with Mr Palmer for the last curry.

After watching an interview with him the other week, he likes to eat pies and sausage rolls for breakfast.

I don’t think you’re in any danger at the salad bar.

But you don’t win friends with salad

But isn’t he worried that all those ex-military people working for the AEC (the ones who secretly rigged the election against him!) might try and take him out with a Stinger if he flies to/from Canberra???

IrishPete said :

simsim said :

Garfield said :

The other thing to note is … trained monkeys get slowed down quite a lot when every vote counted is being scrutineered by multiple representatives of political parties. I’m pretty sure that the RiotAct publishing empire would be slown down to a crawl if you had representatives of every candidate crowded into the room with you every time you wanted to do anything…

Surely only two parties are still interested and scrutineering. You could train the monkeys to ignore them. Or to bite.

IP

Oh please let this come to pass.
Imagine the excitement at the monkey cages when the election is called and they know they will be in business soon. Imagine the effort having to catch them after counting is done (or after sending them out to collect the election signs). On voting day they could man (monkey?) the sausage sizzles.

Clive – please note. I want my democracy monkey-flavoured from now on …

simsim said :

Garfield said :

Declaration happens when the margin based on votes remaining to be counted makes it impossible for any other candidate to get up. That margin was fairly clearly established in Tasmania by now. Thus far in the counting in the ACT, it hasn’t been.

The other thing to note is … trained monkeys get slowed down quite a lot when every vote counted is being scrutineered by multiple representatives of political parties. I’m pretty sure that the RiotAct publishing empire would be slown down to a crawl if you had representatives of every candidate crowded into the room with you every time you wanted to do anything…

Surely only two parties are still interested and scrutineering. You could train the monkeys to ignore them. Or to bite.

IP

simsim said :

Garfield said :

IrishPete said :

JB – do you have a link to support your statement the the AEC is still pissing the ACT Senate vote around?

Surely a team of trained monkeys could have finalised the count by now, especially since the last postal votes trickled in last Thursday I think. It’s not like there were 110 candidates like in NSW.

IP

A good comparison is Tasmania where they had twice the number of candidates we did and 80,000 extra registered voters. Tasmania has already declared who has been elected.

Declaration happens when the margin based on votes remaining to be counted makes it impossible for any other candidate to get up. That margin was fairly clearly established in Tasmania by now. Thus far in the counting in the ACT, it hasn’t been.

The other thing to note is … trained monkeys get slowed down quite a lot when every vote counted is being scrutineered by multiple representatives of political parties. I’m pretty sure that the RiotAct publishing empire would be slown down to a crawl if you had representatives of every candidate crowded into the room with you every time you wanted to do anything…

What? The last two seats in the Tasmanian senate race went down to the wire. Its probably as simple as the ACT having less people doing the counting and data entry.

poetix said :

He will be around for lunch…However, I think that those of us who see $10 as a fair amount of dosh will be saved from competing with Mr Palmer for the last curry.

After watching an interview with him the other week, he likes to eat pies and sausage rolls for breakfast.

I don’t think you’re in any danger at the salad bar.

Garfield said :

IrishPete said :

JB – do you have a link to support your statement the the AEC is still pissing the ACT Senate vote around?

Surely a team of trained monkeys could have finalised the count by now, especially since the last postal votes trickled in last Thursday I think. It’s not like there were 110 candidates like in NSW.

IP

A good comparison is Tasmania where they had twice the number of candidates we did and 80,000 extra registered voters. Tasmania has already declared who has been elected.

Declaration happens when the margin based on votes remaining to be counted makes it impossible for any other candidate to get up. That margin was fairly clearly established in Tasmania by now. Thus far in the counting in the ACT, it hasn’t been.

The other thing to note is … trained monkeys get slowed down quite a lot when every vote counted is being scrutineered by multiple representatives of political parties. I’m pretty sure that the RiotAct publishing empire would be slown down to a crawl if you had representatives of every candidate crowded into the room with you every time you wanted to do anything…

He will be around for lunch…However, I think that those of us who see $10 as a fair amount of dosh will be saved from competing with Mr Palmer for the last curry.