Hehehehe!

Yeah little Can-do Campbell. He’s da man!

Well, I guess we are going to find out what he’s made of, coz it looks like he’s a shoe-in for the next Qld premier!

The problem faced by government is the provision of infrastructure for a rapidly growing population. The cost of incompetence and mismanagement pales besides this, so even if Cando Campbell's team are markedly more proficient than Labor, they still face the infrastructure debt burden resultant from federal immigration policy.

Too true Fester. But rapid population growth in southeast Queensland it is not entirely the Federal government’s fault. None of the successive state governments under Goss, Borbidge, Beatty or Bligh made any attempt to get the Feds to lower immigration.

This was particularly incredible with Bligh, who acknowledged major problems with continuous growth in SEQ, but whose entire solution was to encourage people to live in Townsville, Cairns, Mackay and smaller towns….. and to do absolutely nothing towards discouraging people from moving to Queensland or suggesting that the national immigration rate be lowered.

Yep, she’s got to go. This was enormously irresponsible. But of course we can’t expect anything at all to be done by Can-do towards addressing the population issue in SEQ.

There are two things I will guarantee.

One, that if Cando and the LNP win, business confidence will skyrocket.

Two, if Bligh and labor retains office, (simply by not loosing badly enough), as usual, business confidence will hit rock bottom, that's assuming it's not already down there.

Now one of Joes laws that was reversed once labor gained office was his anti pokie law.

What a great move that was hey!

Now as for the comment about what a great leader Julia is, well, il let that one go through to the keeper.

Rehctub, you wrote:

<< …if Cando and the LNP win, business confidence will skyrocket >>

and

<< …if Bligh and labor retains office, ... business confidence will hit rock bottom, >>

I don’t it is quite as black and white as that.

We need to be careful about just what ‘business confidence’ means. It is not entirely positive.

Unfortunately, high business confidence goes hand in hand with rapid expansionism, doesn’t it? So what Queensland needs is selective business confidence, with a deterrence to the likes of more coal mines, more urban development, etc.

Yes, a Can-do premier will probably increase business confidence, but if anything, that is bound to make the continuous growth problem even worse, especially in the far southeast corner, where it is really quite critical.

It is certainly a difficult juggling act to be seen to be business-friendly while doing something meaningful about continuous growth. But then, that balance has surely got to sit right at the heart of the purpose of government.

Neither Campbell nor Bligh show any signs of achieve anything like it.

Ah, the purpose of government is to give business a helping hand, and that's about it Ludwig.

Any 'benefits' falling to the unwashed is an accident, or a subsidy to employers.

Like public education and health.

Were we not to have that, then business would have to pay more in wages to get anyone to turn up to work with what passes as an education today.

Increasingly, both are being privatised, which is good for business. not us.

But we don't matter, only profits do.

Just watched a Dennis Potter classic, two of them, 'Stand up Nigel Barton' and 'Vote vote vote for Nigel Barton'.

1965, but both spot on observations of the political scene.

BBC, probably downloadable somewhere and worth a look. On sale at ABC shops too.