The outgoing Liberal Member for Blair Cameron Thompson fully deserved to lose his seat in yesterday's election.This man has treated the people of Blair with absolute and utter contempt and has now been justly punished for his failure to represent the local people.
His own newspaper The Thompson Tribune has thankfully published its final edition.
When local people were hurting over WorkChoices, health, education and a host of other local issues, Cameron Thompson stuck like a political fool to only one issue.
Cameron Thompson turned his re-election bid into a referendum on the dreaded Goodna Bypass as his solution to the problems on the Ipswich Motorway.
And the people of Blair clearly rejected his plan for a $3 billion Bypass, opting to support Labor's proposal for an immediate upgrade of the Ipswich Motorway at a third of the cost.
And what a thumping Cameron Thompson received from the people.
They well and truly gave him his own political bypass.
This ex-rural ABC radio reporter from Central Queensland had a 10.4% swing against him - one of the highest swings against a sitting member in Australia.
His worthy opponent, Labor's Shayne Neumann stuck to his guns throughout the campaign on important local issues, never wavering from his commitments on Workchoices and the Ipswich Motorway in particular.Over 9 years, Cameron Thompson proved himself a superbly supercilious politician, too-clever by half in his divisive dealings with the people, the press and the Ipswich City Council.
And now that he is gone, a new era of representative democracy has been unveiled in the City of Ipswich.
Cameron Thompson - Gone and soon forgotten!
