[shaggy eel]

,,, your post #40 - intelligent MPs have the ability, particularly in a pre-election climate, to turn a salary raise down and make crap look like raspberry jelly. Now, that's my understanding of spin - and as you've said on this thread, I spin with the best of them.

[Blunderfromdownunder]

Maybe the Alliance MPs will add the raise to their general kitty to help of Mr McCarten :-)