Labor’s return to the middle nothing but a smoke screen

IT is very apparent now that the Labor Party in general and especially in Queensland has learned nothing from its rejection by the majority of voters 12 days ago and intend to peddle the same climate agenda and remain closely linked to the Greens.

The Gold Coast’s Senator Murray Watt, who has been heavily involved in the federal sphere and the decisions and policies of the Queensland ALP, made the position of the ALP very clear when on Monday he made this statement to the ABC:

“While the result in Queensland in particular is very bad, I don’t think that necessarily means that we have to just abandon everything we stood for and completely change our values. I don’t subscribe to the view that this means Labor has to jump to the right politically.”

It is obvious that the recent spate of announcements by the Premier are no more than a smoke screen to try to convince us all that the ALP is returning to the middle ground and is truly concerned about the needs or wants of the public, especially here on the Gold Coast, but in actual fact intend to continue to over-tax us.

Without doubt we shall continue to see more tax hikes, more effort to push electric cars on us, more delays to see the light rail completed, more lack of interest in the opinion of the public when it comes to planning vital improvements to the M1 as seen with the recent revelations about Exit 57 as demonstrated by the State Transport Minister Mark Bailey. We shall continue to see the ALP pander to professional protesters and green climate change zealots.

I say to the Senator and his colleagues at state level, after five years of the ALP in Queensland no matter how many smoke screens you put up it will not matter, we are no longer listening to what you say.

We have learned to judge you on what we see.

RON NIGHTINGALE, BIGGERA WATERS