Norfolk County Council leader Kay Mason Billig has defended the Facebook post - in which she took a picture of a tomahawk steak - claiming it was a "private joke"
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Of course you do, of course you do.
' Mrs Mason Billig, who is entitled to more than £51,000 in allowances from County Hall each year, told the EDP website the sharing of the post beyond her friends was a "personal attack" and a private joke had been misunderstood.
Mrs Mason Billig, who lives in Chedgrave, near Loddon, with her husband Michael, the former director of Procastle Properties, said: "My husband and I have sometimes called ourselves 'the poor people'.
"It's a private joke as we live fairly modestly, so when we have a treat, we will sometimes post about it. This is asking if friends wonder what we (the poor people) are doing. It's not intended to be about anyone else and is no reflection on people who are less well off than ourselves.
"It's a bad state of affairs when I can't even joke about myself without it being twisted into something it isn't. I am deeply disappointed that someone has decided to be this horrible when they must certainly know it's actually self deprecation. What a sad
world we live in." '