Southport MP Rob Molhoek becomes butt of Twitter jokes after posting a photo talking to ... empty chairs

SOUTHPORT MP Rob Molhoek was on the election trail talking to locals but he became the butt of Twitter jokes after a photo fail.

Southport MP Rob Molhoek posted an image that he'd been out talking to locals but the photo with empty chairs made him the butt of jokes on social media. Pic: Rob Molhoek

SOUTHPORT MP Rob Molhoek was just trying to show he was hard at work on the election trail but a photo fail instead made him the butt of Twitter jokes yesterday.

The LNP member posted a photo to Twitter with the caption ‘I’ve been out chatting to Southport locals about our strong plan to grow Qld!’

Only problem is, Mr Molhoek, who has 1,100 followers, was pictured standing on the side of the road, next to a bunch of empty chairs looking glum.

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I’ve been out chatting to Southport locals about our strong plan to grow Qld!#strongerQLD #qldvotes #qldpol pic.twitter.com/nMBiPCGGNI

— Rob Molhoek MP (@Molhoek) January 8, 2015

The tweet made him the butt of Twitter jokes with followers commenting ‘looks like a one way conversation there!’, ‘awkward’, ‘place is teeming with people! Errr ... not?’ and ‘those empty chairs show how popular your plans are’.

@Molhoek @LNPQLD looks like a one way conversation there!

— MJ (@Mrpj75) January 8, 2015

@Molhoek @Qldaah I've been interacting with people too. *sadly re-arranges empty chairs for party games that will never happen.*

— Longworth72 (@Longworth72) January 8, 2015

@Molhoek @Qldaah Chatting to your friends? Or doing a Clint Eastwood?

— Denise Allen (@denniallen) January 8, 2015

@Molhoek @Qldaah But there's no one there. Hint. When you post photos like this make sure you have people with you.

— Denise Allen (@denniallen) January 8, 2015

@Molhoek @Qldaah Place is teeming with people! Errrr .. not? LOLOLOLOL

— Liz McLennan (@LizBuff46) January 8, 2015

@Molhoek @Qldaah Awkward

— Anne Smith (@samemniktom) January 8, 2015

@Molhoek We can see how many people were interested in what you had to say, picture speaks a thousand words pic.twitter.com/QyCEnBSMQ4 #qldpol

— Sophie Marketa (@Sophie_Marketa) January 8, 2015

@Molhoek not many there! #qldpol must have been wearing novelty tshirts #freeCanDo

— Steve Axe (@DaAxeman) January 8, 2015

Mr Molhoek said he took the photo at the start of his roadside meet-and-greet near the light rail station on Queen Street.

“The reason I post those photos is so people know where I am ... they’ll turn up at my roadside and say they’ve seen it on Facebook,” he said.

Mr Molhoek said he was at the roadside for about three hours and he had a ‘constant stream of people’ stopping by for a chat.

For the record, Mr Molhoek isn’t always a Nigel no friends. Here he is talking to Nigel Fox at Southport Baptist Church. Pic by Luke Marsden