If you wanted to celebrate this year’s projected budget surplus - now unlikely thanks to the economic havoc being wrecked by coronavirus, we’re sorry, you’ve missed your chance.
The Andrew Hirst-directed Liberal Party’s sale of celebratory, limited edition “Back in Black” mugs is no more.
Margin Call told you earlier this week how marketing enthusiasts at party headquarters were still flogging the official merchandise mugs for $35 each to commemorate that “the 2019 budget delivers the first surplus in more than a decade”.
That’s despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Treasurer Josh Frydenberg preparing the electorate for the prospect that their May 12 economic statement might not be in surplus after all.
By Thursday morning, the Liberal Party’s website was telling the faithful that the official Back in Black mugs were “sold out”.
No longer available, just like the government’s declared surplus.
Still, for the smaller outlay of $20, punters can get themselves a pack of two Liberal Party 2019 election stubby holders featuring ScoMo’s “how good is Australia” on the back.
Classy.
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