i love to have a beer with Joycey

Comrades,

During the campaign in the by-election for the state seat of Canterbury a while back now, the Good Lady Wife and I spotted Barnaby Joyce walking into the Golden Barley Hotel in Marrickville.
You can tell Barnaby by the hat.
He must have a good collection.
But what's with the shirts, and why doesn't he constantly have a twig of wheat [or barley, for that matter] between his teeth like Doug Anthony?
You can also tell it's him by the way he does the silly walks and the fact that he looks like he's been inbred with a tomato.
We wondered why he was in the inner west of Sydney of all places, and why the Barley, given that Marrickville is not in Canterbury and the Nationals wouldn't run a candidate there in a blue fit.
So, it was fairly clear that Barnaby was just going into a pub for a beer.
Doesn't mind a drink in a crisis, does our Joycey.
He is often photographed drinking beer with the good burghers of Armidale, it's a guaranteed vote winner; have a few beers with any group of people and wait until the drink starts talking the bullshit and of course they'll say they'll vote for you.
It begs the question, tho' - which one does he like the best?
Is Barnaby a Toohey's or a Resch's man?
I've certainly never seen him holding an Old.
They would have been the tipples of choice around those parts when he was but a wee bairn, but maybe he developed a thirst for XXXX during his time as a Senator for Queensland?
He would not have bar of any of them Victorian or other foreign beers, you'd expect.
So it came as no surprise to see Barnsey and Malcolm Trundle toasting the Country Party's outlandish win in the by-election for the seat of New England [after Mr Joyce quietly and carefully renounced his New Zealand citizenship], with a round of [poorly poured] foaming frosties.
Rejoice!
By all reports, it may well have come close to the biggest swing to a Govt. candidate in the history of all the by-elections in the Federation, but he was the sitting member [temporarily disqualified], there were 17 candidates on the ballot paper, One Nation very kindly failed to run one, and by-and-large Barnaby's majority increased by about 8%, because some people who had never voted for him before, preferring instead Tony "Two Faced" Windsor, voted for Joycey this time, because Windsor also declined to run on account of he's retired and given the game away, or so he says, but Tony's always precariously balanced sitting on the fence in any case.
It was pleasing to see Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow going around again, standing as the Science Party candidate as usual - he must have transferred his electoral address to some remote campsite in the Northern Tablelands stocked with wild drugs for the duration of the short by-election campaign.
Did well too, did Meow-Ludo, garnering 1,162 votes.
Predictably, the Pinko candidate David Ewings died at the polls, and had an absolute shocker with a miserable 11% of the primary vote, but he was the only loser in double figures, with Informal being the next best and third placed candidate at 7%.
Thank the Good Lord Jesus we have a proper Deputy Prime Minister again, as the current Prime Minister is not travelling all that well at the present minute, and without a majority in the House, he has to face the fact that Labor will get up to all sorts of mischief in the NatCap this week.
Fun and games guaranteed.

West Tamorth Leagues Club, 2 Dec 2017. Photo/AAP