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Oz MPs 'could be breathalysed'

Lionel Baden

Control 

It would not be a bad idea to have a little more control over the goverment.

I know whilst gaming i sometimes shoot the wrong team when sozzled how hard would it be vote for the wrong team ?

Anonymous Coward

"andrew stoner" 

heh

Anonymous Coward

A sober aussie? 

Isnt that a sign for armageddon?

Flocke Kroes

The world would be a better place if ... 

... politicians were often too drunk to vote on anything.

Anonymous Coward

Well ... 

They may be drunk politicians, but they're OUR drunk politicians. At least they're not shoving ID cards and schoolyard fingerprint machines down our throats. So, if getting sozzled is the difference then beers all round, I say.

Where's the "Piss on the Union Jack" icon when you need it?

Anonymous Coward

@Well ... 

Happy

" Where's the "Piss on the Union Jack" icon when you need it? "

Right behind the "Our country was founded by convicts" icon

Bob Kearsley

Dangerous talk .. 

Unhappy

The prospect of sober pollie's is frightening. Having them awake and alert through Parliamentary sittings could results in one of them having an idea. Better they stay pissed and clueless as we expect them to be.

Anonymous Coward

Pommy joke warning 

Happy

http://bash.org/?262417

Anonymous Coward

Bah! 

The voters have the remedy in their hands at election time, and I suppose that the legislature itself can vote a censure if need be.

Pete

@Right behind the "Our country was founded by convicts" icon 

Paris Hilton

You're forgetting that your beloved royal family are the product of hundreds of years of incest.

Paris, because if i was her brother...

Francis Boyle

re: @Well ... 

Joke

That'll be the "our country was founded by heroic revolutionaries who gave the finger to the functionaries of a tyrannical and out of touch government icon" thanks.

Maybe you'd like some of us to come back and help you with your current problems

Anonymous Coward

Our policiticans ...... 

True

But on the other hand your pols are trying to restrict info to your country by a Chinese Firewall, so they are no bargain either.

And you have elected some doozies in the recent past, Pauline Hanson springs to mind

TeeCee

Struck by the irony. 

Joke

I found the concept of getting an authoratitive quote on pissed-up politicians from someone called "Stoner" rather amusing meself.

Presumably the actual quote went something like: "Hey man, I didn't know he was drunk, you know? I mean, like, it's not all bad. You need to relax more and kick back.............hey, is that Elvis over there with the pixie people?"

Anonymous Coward

Polly Pissos 

Dead Vulture

If you drink then legislate you are a bloody idiot!

For UK users the campaign was "if you drink then drive......"

Chris Hunt

Obligatory Monty Python reference 

Stop

This term I don't want to catch ANYONE not drinking...