With the Queensland State Election only a week away, you could be forgiven for being a trifle uneasy!

We have two main combatants, Bligh and Springborg, neither of whom instill one ounce of confidence in the thinking voters!

Bligh has participated in and inherited the furore and stupidity of The Traveston Crossing Dam, the "forced" Shire Amalagamation process and now the disasterous "It was 30 tonnes oil,... no sorry 300 tonnes of oil, and we have no idea where the missing 30 containers full of Ammonium Phospate are at this time!"

Springborg has bumbled and danced his way across the State making very little in the way of commitment to solving the State`s economic woes, but has made one profound promise that he will (if elected) retain Peter Beattie`s position as the Queensland Trade Commissioner in the US, a position that remunerates Beattie with around $360,000 per annum ( plus a free house in the US! ) an amount that could be seen as obscene, considering he is already enjoying the fruits of an ex-Premiers Superannuated Pension, ( which is assumed to be non-taxable !)

In case you as a voter are starting to wonder why things never seem to change?.....the fact is that you and many others have been "conditioned" by this one-sided system, which itself operates as a Dr Feelgood for the fat-cats and the money-lenders who sit back and enjoy their affluent life-styles, whilst you spend your entire lifetime battling to buy a house and contents, making outrageously inflated repayments to the money-lenders at the top of the heap, who continue to prosper from the ignorance of the uneducated and the impoverished! They continue to trust in your ongoing ignorance and gullibilty and hope that you will continue in your inability to "see the wood for the trees!"

This then is the system that THEY want to remain in place and which can only be changed by change itself,...I therefore urge you to cast a vote for an INDEPENDANT Candidate at the forthcoming State Election!

Not really taking it seriously. The Borg is a tool. Bligh's gonna win it, well, not so much win it, but if you were to vote for tweedle dum or tweedle dee who would you give it to?.

I had an idea though.

It's funny how they all get SOOOO motivated two weeks out from an election and suddenly come up with solutions to all our woes. A joke really. Are we REALLY that stupid to believe it?.

Anyway, my idea. Seeing as the country is the people's, theoretically, then why not have The People's Commission that's made up of like a similar thing to how the jury's done. Each member gets called up - it's optional, but the money's good - but what they have to do is get to the bottom of WHAT WE NEED as a society. Like, a police chopper, child care subsidies for working families, desalination plants ;o), etc etc.

Coming up to an election the candidate that CAN DELIVER our package gets the win. IF they fail, we cut off their head at the end of term. That way is a win win for the people!.

"IF they fail, we cut off their head at the end of term."

But who decides if they have succeeded or failed?

We tend to judge politicians depending what we already believe about them. If we like them but things are going badly then it's all the fault of circumstances outside their control and if things are going well and we don't like them it's easy to see the global circumstances which make it difficult to fail. We pay maore attention to the things we don't like with pollies we don't like than with pollies we do like.

On the main topic, I'm concerned that if the LNP gets up it will be more of the same. Instead of GOC boards being filled with those being rewarded for loyal service to the ALP they will start to be filled with those who have served the LNP (and it's predecessors). I've seen little that leaves me confident that either major party is wanting to change approach, rather they are squabbling over the spoils.

Oh for some sense that someone actually wanted to do things differently.

R0bert

Rather than being apprehensive, I'm pleased at the prospect of a closer result than usual. While I think that the ALP government is most likely to be returned with a reduced majority, the possibility of a hung Qld parliament with the balance of power being held by the Greens and Independents is quite exciting.

Under such a situation, the government wouldn't have dared to implement the arrogant and undemocratic local government amalgamations foisted on us by Beattie - and would be far less likely to try and steamroller through unpopular, environmentally unfriendly and unnecessary projects like the Travesty Dam.

Mr Springborg declares that the Bligh government knew about the oil spill on Wednesday and did nothing. Did Mr Springborg also know of the spill on Wednesday and did he make any suggestions as to what should be done and what would he have done while the ship was still in the vicinity of cyclone Hamish. What could have been done in the storm.

"But who decides if they have succeeded or failed?"

By them not achieving the goals within their term that the Peoples Commission - or whatever I called it - set out and they agreed too. IF they agree to our term of providing a cop chopper and don't achieve it, well, thanks for coming, 'William Wallace'.

I was being silly........or wishful, more like it.