The fallout from the quitting of McLindon and Messenger has begun to settle with the party and the public left wondering what actually went down and a very coy McLindon still throwing buckets rather than admitting he was reacting to being chastised for disloyalty.
When the Party put up those big dollar campaign funds to get him elected, endorsements, introductions to people of substantial wherewithal as far as wealth and ability to fund campaigns also, and provided a very good infrastructure to back a candidate in a seat where that particular party is the flavour the people are looking for regardless of the name on the voting card, McLindon was happy to use what he they could offer to get elected.
As of today, we are privy to another desertion of the LNP ranks, in a relatively unknown Darren Power, another Logan Councillor who along with McLindon, Ban and Black were members of the LNP and councillors at Logan. With the exception of Black who it seems is to marry Ban (a city slicker, career politician and spinster looking to be elected in a safe Nationals rural seat,) they have all dumped their divisions to run for other office positions (Power has just announced it)
It seems that the ardor with which the LNP selected younger, semi profiled people to try to alter the image of the older looking Country Party type membership profile has come around to kick them in the bum, and may quite probably see Labor again win the Federal and state elections, no matter whether seats are won by some of the new LNP candidates or not.
As the bail out of LNP members continues, and looking at the trend on cannot for a minute expect more bailouts in the future, particularly those who are affiliated like McLindon, Power and Ban; and even if Ban states that it will not happen, she has already stated that she would not dump her division and run again for a federal seat and yet she has done just that and with a history of lying about loyalty you'd have to suspect her to get elected and then quit the party to join MCLindon and Messenger's new congregation of independents when (if) it gets up.
I expect that the Party is now examining Ban very closely, and looking at the past to try to decide if she is worthy of continued support, but she has the ability to convince older males of anything, somehow, so I expect she will remain as the candidate for now.
If I were part of the Liberal side of the LNP I'd be looking to close the Lib ranks and distance myself from the imploding National Party side.
With the old North Beaudesert right in the middle of this Party self destruction we are probably going to miss out big time while the political players put themselves, their careers and their greed above what should be their desire to serve the community.
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It's hard to imagine we'd be worse off that we already are in what was a safe Nationals seat under a Labor State and Federal Government, but I think we are about to find out that we will be. A lot of members had some insecurity about the strengths of a formally combined Party of both Nationals and Liberals and it looks as if theri differences are still nopt allowing productive moving forward as one party with one set of policies and one leader. You have to wonder how Labor does it, be it by fear or reward but you don't see as much disloyalty and self centered behaviour in that mob than you do with the conservatives. We desperately need a change of government, and if these fools spoil that we are indeed in for a rough trot in the next term. we should have a third choice at least and a Genuine one at that, one that is capable of real policy making for the betterment of the community rather than for the profit of government. I'm not going to make any absurd claims about being apolitical but if these quitters do have the capacity to generate membership of a sustainable third party I'll be on side. If they can go one step further and get an upper house establishe here again even better.
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