Big parties’ fairytales more like a curse

YOU know it’s election time when you get politicians promising how their parties will get tough on criminals with some pie in the sky rant.

Instead of having taxpayers fork out for an expensive $ 20 million helicopter for Townsville and Cairns to chase criminals, why can’t Townsville and Cairns police be ONCE upon a time — a long, long time ago — there was a magical land called Queensland that flowed with milk and honey. Roads were paved with Freddo frogs and fairy floss fell from the trees.

Everyone was happy until one day the wicked kings and queens that ruled this fabulous land decided to punish the good people that lived there by charging them double the price to light up their little cottages at night and to keep themselves cool in the hot summer sun.

This angered the good people so much that they decided they would elect a new king or queen to rule over trained in drone technology and have a drone in the back of some police cars? Imagine $ 20 million worth of drones! When a chase gets too dangerous to handle, they pull over and send out the drones.

Drones would be handy for serious domestics and other situations. them and return the money stolen from them by the past nasty rulers.

This attracted lots of other wannabe kings and queens to promise all sorts of magical things like cheaper power and safer homes, and they promised to make the river of milk and honey flow again and everyone would live happily ever after.

Who believes in fairytales? Well, by the promises made in the first few days of campaigning, it seems most politicians think you must believe in fairytales by the number they have told.

As you will see, fairies do not appear

Drones are far cheaper, smarter and safer to gather intelligence on criminal activities before the women and men in blue, including helicopter pilots, put their lives on the line and innocent or guilty citizens get hurt. in all of them, though magic certainly does — and so I guess it must be true that if you tell a lie over and over again it becomes the truth.

Well, the truth is in Townsville we have no water and the highest youth unemployment and the highest crime rate in Australia.

Our power bills have doubled over the past 10 years, and registration and the cost of living has skyrocketed to a breaking point for most families.

Now both major parties have had the chance to fix this but instead they choose to put $ 6.5 billion into a tunnel CAROLYN PLUMMER, North Ward. that will benefit a tiny portion of our state and leave anything north of Brisbane the crumbs that fall from the table.

It’s time to give a minor party the balance of power to force the Government to lift their vision a bit higher to give North Queenslanders a fair go.

We need water and we need them to stop using our power supply like an automatic teller, reaping billions of dollars of revenue to satisfy the lust for spending our money to make Brisbane the land of milk and honey.

MIKE ABRAHAM, KAP candidate, Mundingburra.