Email joke sums up how the Liberals feel about Barnaby Joyce being sent to the backbench
IT WAS the email from a Liberal MP that described Tony Abbott as the “weird kid no one likes”. And it was very quickly recalled.
THE office of a Liberal MP inadvertently emailed out a joke about Barnaby Joyce joining the backbench that described Tony Abbott as the “weird kid no one likes”.
The email showed an old photo of Mr Joyce sitting and chatting with the former prime minister in the House of Representatives.
“When you get in trouble in class and you get sat next to the weird kid no-one likes,” said the email, said to have originated from the office of Liberal MP and the government’s chief whip, Nola Marino.
It heralded Mr Joyce’s move to the backbench and his new seat roughly arms length from that of Mr Abbott. The email was recalled almost immediately after being posted.
