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Slipper denies boozy sleep
Peter Slipper.
EMBATTLED Sunshine Coast MP Peter Slipper has denied his apparent Parliamentary nap last week was the result of alcohol.
The denial came as fellow Sunshine Coast LNP MP Alex Somlyay said his colleague had only himself to blame for the controversy.
It has been rumoured that Mr Slipper’s apparent nap during Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s historic address to Parliament last Wednesday was the result of him having a few drinks at the official function beforehand.
But Mr Slipper, who has been involved in a number of alcohol-fuelled controversies over the years, said that was not true.
“No. That’s just nonsense,” he said.
In a speech to Parliament yesterday, Mr Slipper seemed to intimate that Mr Somlyay was responsible for taking the widely circulated mobile phone photo of his “nap”.
The photo was anonymously leaked to the Daily.
Mr Slipper yesterday demanded the person behind the photo be found, saying it should be forensically examined to determine which seat it was taken from.
He told Parliament the photo was taken from the floor of the chamber by another member sitting to his right.
While the identity of the photographer is not conclusive, Mr Somlyay was sitting next to him on the right.
Mr Slipper said the photograph’s publication had “seriously interfered” with his work.
While Parliament knocked back his request for an investigation, it asked the Committee of Privileges and Members Interests to determine if new guidelines were needed regarding the use of mobile phones by MPs in the chamber.
Mr Somlyay said he was not surprised he had been linked to the photo.
“He always does (blame me), doesn’t he,” he said.
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Posted by oreilly from Maroochydore, Queensland
19 March 2010 7:49 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Politicians love their Grog. Except for MP Slipper. Maybe his was just a nanna nap, but what appalling timing. How embarrassing for all the nation.
Posted by DS from Buderim, Queensland
19 March 2010 7:54 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
No I wasn’t asleep!
No I’m not a drunk!
No I’m not in denial!