It seems things are not exactly hunky dory in the LNP camp and it's all got to do with preselection for the Federal election which is still quite a way off.
In my opinion the LNP doesn't exist at federal level anyway, but there are those out there who are already staking their claim on certain electorates and making demands that the other party from which the LNP was formed don't field a candidate to run against them.
Take for instance the LNP poster boy, Peter Dutton who is touted to be moving from his prior area, Dickson which is now marginal, and heading to McPhearson down toward the Gold Coast where it is more conducive to a conservative victory.
It seems that the move may have upset the local branch before it has even happened, and that some who believe they should be up for preselection themselves don't want the competition from a more highly profiled candidate with some even going to the media to tell all who read that he has dumped his old seat for an easy run.
Bringing back any memories? I thought it might, i was critical of a State member who also dumped his area and moved into what was a safe seat for over 20 years, where people with lesser profile had worked all that time for the community only to be shafted of the reward of being preselected by what i believe is pure cowardice and running away from a real challenge where Mr. Personality could have used that profile to mount a significant display and quite possibly turn out the incumbent and thereby win two seats instead of one.
In our neck of the woods there is another candidate who has been touting their suitability for a new seat and it seems has claimed to be the LNP candidate for that federal seat or at least has publicised that is the desire.
The seat is yet to be officially created, although it is expected to be but regardless, once again i wonder why these LNP people continue to think they will be alone when they run because at Federal level it is still Nationals and Liberals so theoretically a National LNP member should be able to run against and Liberal LNP member without it ending up in conflict.
I'm horrified at the way the National Party seems to be grabbing any slightly profiled person to become a candidate and force them on the community who really don't want to choose between dumb and dumber, or any other candidate who believes they are above the rest of society and that their shit don't stink.
As a typical swinging voter who at this time is full up to here with Labor, feeling very dissatisfied with the State governments bungling and selling off our assets and the federal government who we voted to get rid of work choices and who have barely touched that legislation except to allow workers to get a union rep to assist them in enterprise bargaining and really only doing so to guarantee themselves more union fee related income, I would probably vote conservative this time.
Buy, if I don't like the choices from the LNP, what am I going to do?
I suppose I can always vote green!
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there was a sickening letter promoting one wanna be candidate in our local paper, made me want to puke.
I guess the average voter who doesn't get a bad deal from council would be basing their opinion on this sort of stuff too, it's a shame that newspapers allow this sort of electioneering by proxy because they would recognise it for what it is, but publish it anyway.
Hey Uno, i dont want to steal
any other commenters thunder
on this one, best i leave that
to my own blog, but yeah, i
just thought i would give a
bit of publicity to a blog
post i am working on right
now, hope to have it on air
in a couple of days. It`s
about the QLD and NSW con-
servatives, and John Della
Bosca, the NSW minister whos
just bitten the dust. I am
going to outline the hopeless-
ness of the conservative parties
in the two states, despite the
inherent hopelessness of the
Labor Party. Personally, i
think a lot of young intellectual
LNP members are virtual members
of the Labor Party, but i will
leave it to other commenters
to expand further on your post.
I reckon you're dead on, Mickel is a spent force, even his party have pushed him out of real representation in to a speakers role which is the step before retirement usually, and yet the high profile council star was too afraid to go head to head with him at the ballot box.
If there are new electorates and thusly seats created, and that looks likely because it seems to be decision made, consultation offerred in that order you can bet your bottom dollar that the little miss can't be wrongs will be queing up to offer their services for preselection, woe betide the poor voters in a National safe seat if one particular person gets the nod.
I feel a sence of impending doom, it's most depressing.
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