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IT SEEMS the LNP candidate for Broadwater is struggling to be recognised and now is resorting to annoying residents to try a get people to notice him.

On Friday after he erected a number of illegal signs against council regulations, which council promptly pulled down the majority of them, he announced he was going to keep his signs up until the end of the weekend because he had planned a blitz.

I and my friends awaited this blitz all weekend and thankfully there was none.

We have waited for the removal of the last two illegal signs but alas they remain. Perhaps this is his blitz or was he just waiting for

council to complete his job for him?

I have noted when he has spoken to the media (to usually make a statement on an issue that has already been raised and a solution supplied by the other candidate from One Nation) that he has used well known LNP supporters to try and give his statement creditability.

One thing, however, remains certain. The candidate put up illegal signs and told the news that he would pull them down when he was ready. That has never happened. This gives us all a good idea of what reality we can expect from any promise or statement from this candidate.

RON NIGHTINGALE,

GOLD COAST I’M SURE Gold Coast residents are ecstatic to hear their beloved servants, the councillors, have been given some 800 Commonwealth Games tickets between them.

How hard they’ve all worked to attract the event to their city. Even Sports Minister Kate Jones missed out on tickets through the ballot process but then she’s not a local yokel. I would think that tickets to, say, two events were in order but two each to every event?

Let’s read soon that these councillors have given their tickets to worthy residents in their divisions. Now that would be something. KEN JOHNSTON

AL GORE’S visit to Australia to flog his sequel to An Inconvenient Truth should remind us of a few inconvenient facts about the first.

He predicted, for instance, sea levels would rise 6m, engulfing New York and Shanghai and Pacific islands such as the Maldives.

Needless to say, it hasn’t happened. Then in Britain, when his “facts” were challenged, a judge found “nine significant errors” in the book and subsequent film. But that didn’t stop him clearing $50 million out of both.

P.C. WILSON

MANY good Australian factories are relocating overseas and Australian consumers are freezing or doing without cooking as the cost of electricity is unaffordable.

Meanwhile, politicians from all sides try to score points by telling consumers how to supply the best and cheapest power for the nation and to help the planet.

Until politicians come up with a solution in the national interest just renegotiate the original contracts and leases with the power companies, as the original intent of cheaper prices and saving the planet has not been adhered too. ANGELO, GOLD COAST