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Bye, bye Bligh and good riddance. She could'nt hack the humiliation of fronting up to a victorious LNP in parliament after all the sh*t she has handed out over the years.

Resigned...ceased, desisted, gave up, given up, stopped, withdrawn, withdrew.
 
Logique said:
Hubby might have to consider his position too. Cushiest of sinecures.
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Ms Bligh has already got that covered, Logique.
Big payout for Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's partner in 11th hour deal

* by: Michael McKenna, Queensland political editor
* From: The Australian
* February 10, 2012 12:00AM

QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh's husband, Greg Withers, will receive a six-figure payout if he is dumped by an elected Liberal National Party government after the top bureaucrat just had his contract renewed.

Mr Withers, put in charge of the newly created Office of Climate Change in 2007 barely a month after Ms Bligh became Premier, won a new three-year contract, with a further two-year option, on his $220,000-a-year package in December.
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MrBurns said:
South Brisbane votes her back in and then she quits, real class there:rolleyes:
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That was my response also but when I thought about it a bit more, doesn't she pretty much have to resign in acknowledgement of her gross failure?
 
Julia said:
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That was my response also but when I thought about it a bit more, doesn't she pretty much have to resign in acknowledgement of her gross failure?
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Thats the easy way out, she stabbed the people who voted for her in the back, saying "I apologise for any inconvenience" I bet if they had their vote again....
 
MrBurns said:
Thats the easy way out, she stabbed the people who voted for her in the back, saying "I apologise for any inconvenience" I bet if they had their vote again....
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Well they will have their vote again now, I don't expect the Labor candidate will pick up many votes this time ;)
 
Ms Gillard will be back in Australia on Wednesday. Plenty of time for her response to the Qld election to be sought.
Her spin people will have something sorted out for her to say by then.
 
Logique said:
Hubby might have to consider his position too. Cushiest of sinecures.
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Perhaps he will be the new toilet cleaner for the next five years...:D

Why waste a million dollars in paying him out and, with any luck, he might decide to resign...:cautious:

After all, his pay comes from tax payers, so it is tax payers that are being ripped off here.
 
A B must have thought about it during the election as the end drew near resigning lie that over night is not done on the spur of the moment.
I guess now there will be a by election few more k spend on behalf of the QLD Taxpayer they should let the next who polled the most votes take the position.
 
Can anyone confirm that a Qld politicians' super is calculated on the the number of times they are elected to office?
 
After a Premier has been as comprehensively beaten as Anna Bligh it is expected that they resign. The alternative is being sacked by your party. You have to start with a fresh leader for a rebuild.

I think the extent of election result is a disaster for Queensland. In any democracy you need a viable, healthy opposition party to keep a government on its toes and to provide an alternative point of view. This electoral imbalance will create its own problems for the LNCP (too many people looking for jobs) and leave Queensland with no viable alternative for at least a decade.:2twocents
 
basilio said:
I think the extent of election result is a disaster for Queensland. In any democracy you need a viable, healthy opposition party to keep a government on its toes and to provide an alternative point of view. This electoral imbalance will create its own problems for the LNCP (too many people looking for jobs) and leave Queensland with no viable alternative for at least a decade.:2twocents
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Sour grapes.:rolleyes:
 
Calliope you are just so so ?????

I was commenting about the extent of the loss and its implications not the fact that Labour lost. That was always on the cards.

I would have been just as concerned if Labour had won such a landslide victory. The principle of having a capable opposition still stands.
 
basilio said:
After a Premier has been as comprehensively beaten as Anna Bligh it is expected that they resign. The alternative is being sacked by your party. You have to start with a fresh leader for a rebuild.
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Another set of issues you have confused and melded basilio.

1/ The Labor party was defeated for which Blight should rightly resign the leadership.

2/ However she won her seat and people have a right to expect she serve her electorate, whether leader of her party or whether her party is in government or not.

However she has spit her dummy in the sand and quit, costing taxpayers for an unnecessary by-election.

That is bad form.
 
wayneL said:
Another set of issues you have confused and melded basilio.

1/ The Labor party was defeated for which Blight should rightly resign the leadership.

2/ However she won her seat and people have a right to expect she serve her electorate, whether leader of her party or whether her party is in government or not.

However she has spit her dummy in the sand and quit, costing taxpayers for an unnecessary by-election.

That is bad form.
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She knows she would have looked very small across the chamber from Campbell Newman and the LNP.
 
wayneL said:
Another set of issues you have confused and melded basilio.

1/ The Labor party was defeated for which Blight should rightly resign the leadership.

2/ However she won her seat and people have a right to expect she serve her electorate, whether leader of her party or whether her party is in government or not.

However she has spit her dummy in the sand and quit, costing taxpayers for an unnecessary by-election.

That is bad form.
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In the world of real politick a leader who is so decisively beaten is expected to leave and give someone else the opportunity to regroup.

End of story.
 
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