New governments tend to get a lot of tolerance from the
electorate when they break their pre-election promises. People don’t like it, but the tendency to
‘give them a go’ tends to outweigh any sense in the electorate of disappointment
or betrayal.
In the case of Queensland’s new LNP Government, the difference
between pre-election promises and post-election actions has been wider than
usual; the betrayal has been more than usually cruel.
And so the crash in support for the LNP in Queensland has been
more dramatic than most new governments face.
But the new LNP Government has a much, much bigger problem than
breaking the promises they made from opposition.
Only six months old, this Government is already breaking
promises it has made since it won Government.
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