Campbell Newman‘s term of office should be judged across the
spectrum of his term, not by the flurry of appeasements made recently.
He
began by sacking thousands of public servants including health workers.
Under
his watch unemployment has gone from 5.5% to 6.4%.
The beguiling asset sale
Strong Choices campaign was advertised in the print media and beamed
incessantly into our lounge rooms.
Doctors and the legal profession were taken
on as a party besotted with new-found power flexed its muscles.
After
heavy defeats in Redcliffe and Stafford, the bikie laws underwent 'adjustment',
an olive branch was extended to the legal community and the electorate was told
Campbell was 'listening'.
The rhetoric changed to long-term asset leases, which
in effect are asset sales.
His latest act of desperation is to target the popular Solar
Bonus Scheme when it is well known that network costs (essentially the poles
and wires transmissions) constitute by far the major proportion of total
electricity costs and show no sign of abating.
With the election some six months out, these politically motivated adjustments should be treated with suspicion. Newman says he has runs on the board. But his team has thrown away its wickets and he is now relying on a few 'pork-barrelling' tail-enders to save his political skin.
Frank Carroll
As party faithful we know,and realise these points you make Frank, and agree with them.
ReplyDeleteHowever, do you think the general electorate, the 'man-in-the-street' is aware of the failings of this government?
That always worries me: Just how politically informed and aware are the vast majority of voters.
Perhaps that's why campaigning is so important - to highlight the LNP's failings. And there's so many of them!!
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