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Premium regional retailers around the country are this week watching the news cycle with bated breath.
The puffer jackets and chino pants behind the nation’s most famous boot and our loud mouth military allies most expensive export, are doing so after learning of the big split in the Coalition.
RM and RAM retailers across the regions are on edge, following revelations the split could lead to real wage decreases across the National Party.
Those cuts come as a result of up to 6 National Party politicians losing their shadow ministerial positions, which means their salaries get a 58,000 pay cut.
They still receive the $233,660 base salary for all Australian MPs and Senators.
They also lose likely received reduced staffing allocations, meaning they might have to do a little bit more work – not usually something politicians see as a perk of the job.
While the loss of RM wearing staffers is also a concern to local RM retailers, it’s believed the pay cut will hit both the RM and RAM retailers across the country.
“Look, we know the mining boom has come to an end, and it’s getting hard to sell blokes 180k utes that guzzle liquid like a first year uni student at an all you can drink toga party,” said a local RAM detailer.
“Obviously blokes in property and construction are helping pick up the slack, but losing the cashed up Nats would be a serious threat to our business model.”
“It might even lead to the importation of the American utes that are being dumped in Australia cause nowhere else around the world really wants them, being taxed properly,” he sighed.
“Whatever the issues are, they need to fucking sort em out,” he said of the Nationals.
“For our sake and theirs.”
More to come.
