SHOCKING CRIME RATE

SO the three stooges are up to their antics again, this time throwing a sign under a bus.

How appropriate is that. Queensland Labor has thrown Townsville and Queensland under the biggest bus imaginable.

Townsville has an annual crime rate of one crime per 15.27 citizens, source: Townsville Bulletin October 23-24.

We had 14,993 reported crimes for 229,000 citizens. New York had a 2018 crime rate of one crime per 208 citizens source: http://nyc.gov/ site/nypd/news/p0103a/newyorkpeople-city-archives-recordbreaking-low-crime-2018#10).

New York had 95,883 reported crimes for 20 million people. By those figures, Townsville has a reported crime rate a mind boggling 13 times that of New York.

That sounds ridiculous, but the figures are there for all to see.

What has Labor done about it? Sent some of our police to the southeast corner to help with Covid restrictions. They have made lots of promises and delivered on none of them.

The elderly are too afraid to visit their local shopping centre for fear of being mugged and their pension stolen.

Any young person will tell you drugs are dealt openly in at least one major centre. Is this how we should have to live?

Labor has given Queensland the highest public debt per capita of any Australian state. Annastacia has promised to borrow more.

The thing about borrowed money is that it must be paid back. Every struggling wage earner knows that.

Do we want to have our children and grandchildren burdened with onerous repayments in the form of higher taxes for the sake of political expediency? Queensland already has 5 per cent more public servants per head of population than either New South Wales or Victoria. Annastacia wants to employ thousands more.

If it were only front line workers perhaps.

However, any public servant will confirm that for every one of them, there are two more sitting in plush offices immune from accountability, and producing nothing but difficulties for those actually doing the work.

If you are happy to live in a city with a crime rate a staggering 13 times that of New York, vote Labor.

If you are happy to see your parents and grandparents feeling insecure in their own homes, much less venturing out, vote Labor. If you are happy to see your children and grandchildren paying off

Labor debt well into their old age, vote Labor.

If any of those things concern you, and they should, vote Labor out.

ROBERT LANDRIGAN, Douglas.