LIBERAL Senator Bill Heffernan has never been one to mince his words.
Some of Bill's memorable tongue lashings include dismissing the leadership ambitions of Labor's Julia Gillard because she was "deliberately barren", labelling a toothless Wheat Export Authority a "bed of pansies" and stating that farmers were "sick of getting it up the back passage" in regard to high fertiliser prices.
Last week the Junee farmer turned his verbal blowtorch on animal activist Matt Prescott from the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, after Prescott flagged the wool industry would die if it failed to ban mulesing.
"I'll bet he's been circumcised," Senator Heffernan said, the inference being that it is no different to a lamb being mulesed.
"I hope he has. I'll be putting that to him. That bloke needs to come over here, have a look at our sheep and learn some home truths."
Given that Matt Prescott is Jewish, it is a fair bet he has endured the snip.
