George Street Confidential: Qld politics news and gossip
A Labor backbencher has been snapped whooping it up for his 40th birthday, with social distancing rules apparently disregarded.
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It seems Labor’s Duncan “Peggy” Pegg knows how to party like it isn’t 2020.
George Street Confidential was this week furnished with pictures of our man in Stretton whooping it up for his 40th birthday bash, including a turn on the dance floor with a belly dancer and a rather shiny-looking headpiece.
George Street Confidential: Qld politics news and gossip
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The shindig, held on July 25 at Hope Island’s Cafe Kuma Indian Restaurant, looked like a rather raucous affair in the photos, which have been taken down from the Facebook page of Lewis Lee OAM, who loves nothing more than hosting a Labor function.
Obviously Peggy decided to throw off the shackles of all those pesky social distancing and dancing rules that his boss Annastacia Palaszczuk keeps banging on about and live large for the evening.
When he wasn’t on the dance floor, Peggy was keen to jump in front of the camera with his many guests.
The pictures we’ve obtained show Peggy with arm draped over 27 different party goers by our count.
It appears the drinks were being downed faster than the wait staff could carry off the empty bottles too.
The event was held almost a month after Peggy’s actual birthday, which is in June.
However, it did coincide with chief health officer Jeannette saying “I think it’s time for all of us to be concerned” and Peggy’s Government ordering patrons to stay seated with their pints the previous day.
A couple of weeks earlier, young folk had mocked Palaszczuk for saying they’d have to sit and listen to music because dancing wasn’t allowed.
However, if pictures are anything to go by, Peggy’s dancing would best be described as interpretative.
We dropped Peggy a message yesterday hoping to wish him a belated happy birthday and find out if 40 really is the new 20.
“I apologise for this,” he said.
“I confirmed the venue had a COVIDsafe plan in place prior to the event but inadvertently got pulled up to the dancefloor.”
We get it. Blame it on the boogie.
