If he wanted a seat on the "gravy train" he would have kept his mouth shut, never challenged the anointed one, and sat quietly at the table as the impotent token social conservative.
He's far less likely to make a higher salary forming his own party. He doesn't have the following Max does.
If he wanted a seat on the "gravy train" he would have kept his mouth shut, never challenged the anointed one, and sat quietly at the table as the impotent token social conservative.
But then he's only be making an MP salary. And worse, he'd have to show up to work every day.
Instead by quitting the party, starting his own party and losing his seat as a result, he gets to collect his maxed out MP's pension PLUS the $104k "party leader's" salary he's paying himself out of the donation money. That's WAY better than making less money and having to work.
If he wanted a seat on the "gravy train" he would have kept his mouth shut, never challenged the anointed one, and sat quietly at the table as the impotent token social conservative.
He's far less likely to make a higher salary forming his own party. He doesn't have the following Max does.
But then he's only be making an MP salary. And worse, he'd have to show up to work every day.
Instead by quitting the party, starting his own party and losing his seat as a result, he gets to collect his maxed out MP's pension PLUS the $104k "party leader's" salary he's paying himself out of the donation money. That's WAY better than making less money and having to work.