If current polling trends continue, several Coalition ministers are set to lose their seats. But there is life after politics. And not just with Macquarie Bank.

The political scene is often referred to as “Hollywood for ugly people” — and there’s money to be made in ugly.

If you’re fat, repulsive, deformed, unsightly or just plain freakish looking then modelling could be for you. The “Ugly Model Agency” in Tigris House, London doesn’t care how people look as long as it’s not like Elle Macpherson or Kate Moss. The more different you are, the more likely you are to succeed.

Ugly claims it was the first “character model agency” in the world. Established in 1969, it has a second agency in New York. The Ugly Agency was founded by two photographers who noticed a hole in the modelling world for “fascinating faces”. Ugly now has more than 900 unattractive people on its books from the ages of 18 to 100-years-old.

Usually models range in sizes stick thin to thinner. Not at Ugly, where models come in sizes from 6-30. Ugly is about embracing the strange. And it’s a popular strategy — fashion heavyweights like Calvin Klein, Diesel and Vogue have all dared to be different.

Ugly comes into its own with its “specials selection” featuring thugs, bikers and twins. The “Wee Folk” category has a nice selection of dwarfs and midgets; “X-Files” has a bunch of models covered in tattoos, piercing and other freakish dabblings — one model in this category, known as Prince Albert is in the “Guinness World Records” book for his piercings.

Having perused the possibilities may we humbly suggest some modelling opportunities. Prime Minister John Howard and the X-Files section –people are always looking for a burnished bald head paired with extraordinary eyebrows; Brendan Nelson could enter the thug section — most of them have huge foreheads as well. Peter Costello could give it a shot in the special “bodies section”, perhaps maybe promoting that delectable double chin of his.

Life after politics just got prettier.