In 2012 Christopher Monckton goes way beyond being a media tart

The point at which Viscount Monckton of Brenchley changes from an irritating media tart into a pathetic media whore?

http://youtu.be/Br9imjm1kvk

Abbott votes with Thomson in Parliament on the morning of 30 May 2012

TONY Abbott says the Gillard government only survives because of the tainted vote of Craig Thomson and he’s challenged the Prime Minister to bar the central coast MP from voting. [The Australian 30 May 2012]

In which Abbott, Entsch and Pyne show just how silly they can be on 30 May 2012.....

http://youtu.be/LE16yS_n9HE

In a media doorstop Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott himself called, he at first denied outright that he had voted with Independent MP Craig Thomson against a motion to gag Opposition Treasury spokesperson Joe Hockey.

Commonwealth Hansard states differently at approximately 9.10am: 

In division—

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition was on the floor at the time—that is the chamber. We will now proceed with the vote. The question is that the member be no longer heard.

NOES
Abbott, AJ	Alexander, JG
Andrews, KJ	Andrews, KL
Bandt, AP	Billson, BF
Bishop, BK	Bishop, JI
Briggs, JE	Broadbent, RE
Buchholz, S	Chester, D
Christensen, GR	Ciobo, SM
Cobb, JK	Coulton, M (teller)
Crook, AJ	Dutton, PC
Entsch, WG	Fletcher, PW
Frydenberg, JA	Gambaro, T
Gash, J	Griggs, NL
Haase, BW	Hartsuyker, L***
Hawke, AG	Hockey, JB
Hunt, GA	Irons, SJ
Jensen, DG	Jones, ET
Kelly, C	Laming, A
Ley, SP	Macfarlane, IE
Marino, NB	Matheson, RG
McCormack, MF	Mirabella, S
Morrison, SJ	Moylan, JE
Neville, PC	Oakeshott, RJM
O'Dowd, KD	O'Dwyer, KM
Prentice, J	Ramsey, RE
Randall, DJ	Robb, AJ
Robert, SR	Roy, WB
Ruddock, PM	Schultz, AJ
Scott, BC	Secker, PD (teller)
Simpkins, LXL	Smith, ADH
Somlyay, AM	Southcott, AJ
Stone, SN	Tehan, DT
Thomson, CR	Truss, WE
Tudge, AE	Turnbull, MB
Van Manen, AJ	Vasta, RX
Washer, MJ	Wilkie, AD
Windsor, AHC	Wyatt, KG

***The NSW Nationals Member for Cowper, Luke Hartsuyker, on the NSW North Coast also voted with Thomson.

While the above video of the House of Representatives just prior to the vote shows Abbott’s attempt to leave the Chamber, improperly and in defiance of parliamentary procedure, after the Acting Speaker had called for the doors to be locked on a division.

Not being so swift when not clad in Lycra, he was caught by the Acting Speaker and forced to return to his seat to then take part in the vote.

The Acting Speaker, Deputy Speaker Anna Burke had the last word on the subject:

...it is not for the opposition or the government to accept a member's vote. We need to clarify this: it is for the parliament to accept a member's vote...

End of story.

Cripes! Andrew Stoner - rapidly elevated and staged a political takeover

Seems Andrew Stoner is now Australia’s Acting Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment. Well, that's what an international publisher for the exhibition, conference and events industries is saying.

Read it for yourself:

AUSTRALASIA - Australia’s Acting Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Stoner will be the inaugural Patron of Business Events Sydney’s (BE Sydney) Ambassador Programme, a business development programme that helps to secure international events for Sydney and the state of New South Wales.

The publisher is aptly named. It's Mash Media. Perhaps Stoner provided MishMash with the information in the first place.