Queensland election results 2017: Blood will be spilt as killing season begins
IF Labor wins again, as the exit poll and early counts suggest, Tim Nicholls will be the first to fall on the sword, his dreams shattered, writes Des Houghton.
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THE votes have been cast. Let the killing season begin.
If Labor wins again, as slikely, Tim Nicholls will be the first to fall on the sword, his dreams shattered.
There will be retribution, too, at the LNP, with questions asked about the timid, non-confrontational campaign that failed lamentably to highlight any of the Labor Party’s failings.
And there have been plenty of those.
Before the poll closed yesterday, LNP chiefs were already whispering the name of David Crisafulli as the conservatives’ new hope.
He’s on the comeback trail in Broadwater on the Gold Coast.
Congratulations to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
She remains an unlikely leader, a chronic underperformer who can offer only more taxes, more debt, more unionism and a tuckshop mum smile.
The killing season may even extend to Canberra.
The federal implications are huge.
The personal unpopularity of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be blamed for the LNP’s poor showing.
And a setback here will diminish Turnbull’s own power and perhaps offer Bill Shorten a red carpet ride to power.
Yesterday’s vote will ensure the unions in Queensland will continue to have inordinate power over government policy, the running of departments and Cabinet itself.
It’s a vote that validates cronyism and intimidation by unions as an acceptable way of life in Queensland.
The voters got it wrong and will come to regret their mistake.
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