The Queensland LNP

[Outlaw Yogi]

Speaking of fuck-ups ... who dug the fluffy bunny back up? ... is this your doing Ned?

He is back by his own choice, and through no action of mine.

Did you or did you not post your slimy policy for this place over at Monks and call him to action?

Of course I did.

Inconsistency implies latent motives, but the admission is all I need.

I note the plethora of deathtreats made by Yogi Bear that are again left to stand.

I am a member here and that is it. If yogi berra and IQ don’t like it, tough.

What death threats fluffy bunny?

[Neferti]

Of course I did. I am seeking votes, and there are Members there who are Members here. If you check NOIQ, you will find recent posts from Monk which pre-date the publication of my Election Platform/Statement.

Nice Thread hi-jack. Thanks for that.

Members at Monk's Blog, Aussie/Ned? Nobody posts over there except Monk, Leftie and yourself. If you want to coerce people to vote for you, you first must be able to not act like a used car salesman or slimy insurance door knocker. You have lied to me about when you were last Admin of this Forum. You acted like a little Hitler and everyone commented about it. Nobody wants that again.

[donniedarko]

Check the Hansard of today's Parliament sitting. Seeney absolutely frolicked about in his new role as Parliamentary Opposition leader, and Question Time was a shouting mess.

Campbell is seen as a much stronger leader than Borg/Langbroek. Regardless of his failures with Clem7 etc he was the can-do face of the flood effort and would no doubt get more valuable media presence than current LNP leadership.

Labour must be worried, as they spent all of Question Time today trying to smear Newman by calling him a deserter.

[boxy]

What's going on up there? Are the LNP playing catchup after Bligh's disaster resurgence? Or is there more to it than that? Pretty risky, giving the leadership to someone with no voice in parliment, isn't it?

[Outlaw Yogi]

Couple of years ago Newman was the highest ranking sitting/governing Liberal party member in OZ as Brisbane Lord Mayor.
And has probably been the only truely successful and functional Liberal led govt in OZ since phuk knows when.
The amalgamated Qld Liberal and National parties (LNP) have got no aces, so are hoping to trump Bligh's crew with a joker/wild card.
Might work ... Newman is popular.

[Ned Kelly]

What's going on up there? Are the LNP playing catchup after Bligh's disaster resurgence? Or is there more to it than that? Pretty risky, giving the leadership to someone with no voice in parliment, isn't it?

Yes, that advantage is being taken. However, Leadership of the LNP up here has been piss weak ever since Joh and his lot were given the boot. They have not found anyone like Joh (thank fuck).

Newman, as Mayor of Brisbane, obviously has a huge support base.......in Brisbane. He does have a reputation of 'can do' and is certainly the best existing known LNP identity/option they have as Leader, even though he is yet to get into Parliament.

The LNP will go into the next election with a Presidential style campaign, and they will need to hope that the support he has in Brisbane will be reflected State Wide....and it might. He is a far better option than any of the current sitting LNP Members of State Parliament.

Each of Bligh and Newman had a spike in their popularity following the recent disasters up here. Newman is best on offer to blunt new found support for Bligh whose Government was as unpopular as Kinneally's, pre disasters.

However, he needs to get over a 7% buffer the ALP incumbent has in the seat he proposes to run in, Ashgrove. That local Member, a female, Jones by name, could well retain her seat as she has exceptional local community backing and voting support.

[Jovial Monk]

If you look at the real PA you will see Labor now has 52% support, LNP 48% and Greens steadily losing support (in every state and federally.)

The seat “given” to “Can and Do spend billions on failed ventures” is a fairly safe Labor seat at the worst of times, and for the ALP these are pretty good times!

Guess actually getting within cooee of winning govt scared the LNP

[Outlaw Yogi]

Yahoo's reproduction of ABC's take on it ...

Newman's state switch has echoes of the past
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian ... -the-past/

Former Brisbane lord mayor Sallyanne Atkinson has revealed that senior Liberals approached her about making a Campbell Newman-style switch to state politics in 1990.

Brisbane's current Lord Mayor, Councillor Newman, sparked turmoil in the Liberal National Party (LNP) this week when he announced he wanted to lead the party and oust Labor state Premier Anna Bligh at the next election.

His bold move forced the LNP leadership team of John-Paul Langbroek and Lawrence Springborg to fall on their swords.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Springborg hits out at LNP plotters
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/na ... -plotters/

Queensland's former deputy Opposition leader has blasted Liberal National Party officials who drafted Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman into state politics.

Lawrence Springborg, who resigned this week after Councillor Newman announced he wanted to take over the leadership of the LNP, has accused the party's executive of a "dreadful intrusion" into parliamentary democracy.

Mr Springborg told 7.30 Queensland Councillor Newman's appointment may now be inevitable, but the parliamentary wing is "dismayed" at the process.

And he said only elected members of parliament have the right to choose their leader.

"That doesn't mean that members of parliament aren't very concerned and indeed outraged by this intrusion into the process of parliamentary democracy and the lack of respect that unelected party officials have had on the parliamentary process. There is a lot of annoyance, there is a lot of concern," he said.

[mellie]

I think the Nats are like a good bottle of wine, just keep getting better and better.