My sources tell me the Qld State election will be held on the 28th March.

This means Queenslanders will have to decide whether they want to elect a Bligh government or take on the uncertainties attached electing the political equivalent of Frankenstein’s Monster - the NLP.

As you may have guessed I'm no fan of Anna ‘Botox’ Bligh (she's got the personality of a cardboard box) but the thought of Lorry Springborg goose stepping arrogantly around Parliament sends shivers up my spine.

So I’m wondering what Bligh’s next Cabinet will look like?

Will we see some young Labor blood come to the fore?

No doubt there will be a whole bunch of young laborities that did their time playing nasty politics inside the toxic bowels of unions, handed out HTV cards at the voting booths and worked out which factions were worth sucking up to inside the Labor party machinery.

Whoever they are you can be sure they'll know how to double speak and spin doctor like the best of them.

With the exodus of at least a dozen Labor Ministers and in these uncertain economic times can we afford to have young career oriented politicians with training wheels on assuming important positions in public office?

Who ever wins this election I just hope to hell the next Qld government is intellectually equipped to lead. Because God help us - it’s not looking good at all.

We all know that Beattie, knowing what a bl@@dy awful job he had done, was worried how history would judge him. His cunning plan was to anoint someone so hopeless that they would make him look less bad.

Well, with Anna, & the George St girls club, he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. We have seen enough of them to know they could not organise a typical country women's association saturday morning cake stall. They need at least a couple of years apprenticeship, running a small country town primary school tuckshop, before they get another try at the state.

So Rainier, mate, on the grounds that it must be nearly impossible for anyone else to be as bad as Anna, & the girls, I have to say, give the Borg a go, he just may save us. Another term of Anna, & there won't be too much, if anything, left to save.

Hasbeen, You may just be right.
Speaking to a Labor backbencher late last year she nonchalantly exclaimed “We’ve got a huge majority so we can take a hit /lose a few seats and still win".
It never occurred to her that they should win because they believe they deserve to win.
And your take on Beattie leaving Bligh to steer the ship couldn’t be more accurate.
Likewise with Beattie’s own seat, Central Brisbane, which was gifted to Grace Grace- who in my circle of friends is known as “disgrace disgrace”.
Where are the Labor women in the mould of say Carmen Lawrence?

They all appear to just well dressed empty headed bogons !

Victoria had John Cain, the dour plodder, followed by Joan Kirner, the incompetent tail-ender.

Seems like Labor history's repeating with Beattie followed by Bligh.

As for the Borg, if he's anything like in the mould of Jeff Kennett, he's in.

Again, the pattern of Labor incompetence followed by an economic hardline Liberal Premier might be about to repeat.

Although I am less than confident of the LNP guys, I say Nobody, but nobody deserves another term after wasting the huge revenues gained over the past decade from the property and mining booms that QLD has enjoyed.

We should be financially 'bullet proof' yet we sit hear in the red.

Same on you labor, shame.