Our woeful MPS could learn from Honest Abe

I AM always in awe of the wordsmanship and fact finding capabilities of Barry Lowe of Kirwan ( TB, 19/7) as he systematically destroys any attempt by Aaron Harper to explain the shortcomings and why Labor has lost the plot.

If there is any sanity or justice left in Queensland, Labor will also lose the next state election.

Arrogance as he so deftly explains the complexities of the emotion is certainly in abundance within Labor.

No amount of bleating by sheep like the Mr Agacy who calls us anti-labor types cretins is useful. It’s uncivil, disrespectful and deliberately derogatory.

Well, sir, wrap me up in Senate papers and whup my behind with a ballot sheet – you can add my name to your home dartboard but you have forgotten to add two more emotions to your list – they are anger and disgust.

There are a lot of angry and disgusted voters out there just like me who are fed up to our back teeth with the utter lies, selfinterest, self-promotion, attempted dismantling of our coal industry, backflips and just plain BS coming out of the Palaszczuk brand of government. The antics of the Deputy Premier and Member for Self-advancement Jackie Trad belong in an episode of TV shows.

Labor could learn a valuable lesson in honesty by looking into the history of the great US president Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln was president from March 4, 1861 until his death by assassination on April 15, 1865.

It was in his Gettysburg Address that he spoke those famous words: “That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, – shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

When you look at the great deeds achieved and the fine words spoken by a man of Lincoln’s calibre one can truly see just how far our political wannabes fail us, the people in our short history.

And yet for some reason I can’t understand they call the

Members of Parliament the “Right Honourable”.

DENIS MAY,

Annandale.