ONE Loddon hotel offered a happy hour last Wednesday in the countdown to the official 5pm retirement from state politics of outgoing premier Daniel Andrews.
Four Posts Hotel, Jarklin, had the clock ticking down to the formal handover to Jacinta Allan whose electorate border is just kilometres from the Loddon Valley Highway watering hole.
Publican Heide Polkinghorne said: “It was to celebrate surviving under Dan’s leadership. For a premier supposedly so popular, he was never been past Melbourne, unless it was staged,” she said.
“We even had a person who said he was the (former) premier’s cousin at the bar and taking part.”
Patrons said the retirement of Daniel Andrews came after weathering unnecessary COVID lockdowns and poor treatment of rural areas where roads were crumbling.