Queensland Liberals' Shotgun Marriage!

Fair dinkum, the Liberal Party must think that the voters of Queensland are all complete dunces.

First, they oust the hapless Dr Bruce Flegg from Moggill who is not a bad bloke - but destroyed by the media on the day he became Liberal Leader in 2006.

Then the Party room was locked 4-all on a new leadership vote in a bitter split which proved almost impossible to resolve.

Then someone dreamt up the idea of a shotgun marriage between the Member for the Blue Rinse Set of Caloundra Mark McArdle and the Member of the Chardonnay Set of Inner Brisbane Tim Nicholls.

This political odd-couple were engaged, married and said "I do" quicker than Bruce Flegg could pack his bags and head back to the tranquil life back on the prairie beyond the back of Kenmore.

Voters can be sure that this shotgun marriage will never be consummated because this pair absolutely hate each other.

Their honeymoon was over after they both gritted their teeth and smiled appropriately for the happy snappers from the media.

Shotgun marriages rarely last and trying to turn this pair into a loving couple will be more difficult than matching up Paul Keating with Bronwyn Bishop!

Like all of the Queensland Liberals' attempts in recent years, this shotgun marriage will end in divorce with another acrimonious Party split guaranteed in the not too distant future.


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Queensland Liberals - Every Child Player Receives a Prize!

The Queensland Liberal Party Leader Dr Bruce Flegg is finally on the ropes - battered and bruised by his own colleagues and has thrown the bloodied towel in.

And now the farce of Liberal Party politics Australian-style is about to be played out with the next leader to be chosen from a Lucky Dip!

The 8 Liberals are stuck 4-all on selecting a new leader and have discussed a Lucky Dip as the most-professional and sensible way of resolving the impasse.

Talk about choosing the best person to lead the Party!

This is all about a bitter, acrimonious factional split which will see Liberal Party Members die in the trenches rather than allow the Member representing the Chardonnay Set of Inner Brisbane to try to lead the Liberals out of the political wilderness.

If Tim Nicholls wins the Lucky Dip, he will be forever tarnished as the boy from Clayfield who thinks he is "One in a Million" but is really just "Won in a Raffle".


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Flegg gone - new Liberal Leader unveiled!

Just when the Liberal Party in Queensland had the opportunity of pulling itself out of the quagmire with the resignation of its Parliamentary Leader Dr Bruce Flegg, it continues to lurch from one crisis to another.

Dr Flegg decided on a top-secret location to continue the Party's leadership debate, only to be confronted by the media on his arrival.

The Liberal Party has more leaks than a football stadium full of drunks!

After resigning as leader and with the party room locked 4-all on a replacement, the Liberal Party in Queensland now has no leader and no prospect of a new leader.

As idiotic as this might sound, they were better off when Dr Flegg was the leader - at least there was someone to blame for the Liberal Party's never ending woes!

Now, we have great pleasure in introducing the new Leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland :

CASPER THE FRIENDLY LIBERAL GHOST!


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D-Day for Bruce Flegg

Exclusive picture of what the Liberal Party
in Queensland can't stop doing to itself.

He mightn't be a bad doctor but as Leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland, Bruce Flegg has shown as much inspiration as a dead dog on a rubbish tip.

Today is square-up time for the 8 Liberal members of the Queensland Parliament who have been locked 4-all in a move to oust Dr Flegg.

Good governments need good opposition and Bruce Flegg simply hasn't cut the mustard with ordinary Queenslanders who have seen him as a clumsy and ineffective opponent of Peter Beattie and Anna Bligh.

With Gold Coast MP Ray Stevens now saying there needs to be a change at the top, Dr Flegg should be free to resume his full-time medical practice before midnight tonight.


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Bruce Flegg turns mathematical genius!

Besides now showing an unprecedented degree of magnanimity, Dr Bruce Flegg - the Great Pretender to the Liberal Party throne in Queensland - has now turned into a mathematical genius.

After weeks of internal bickering and a 4-all deadlock in the Party room to replace him as leader with Tim Nicholls who is the rising star of the Liberals' inner-city Chardonnay set, Dr Flegg has now announced that he will stand down as leader if Tim Nicholls secures 5 or more votes in the upcoming ballot.

Well, bully for you Bruce. What a great fellow you are!

How long did it take you to work out that 5 out of 8 is a majority and that you would have to stand down anyway?

With intellectual geniuses like Bruce Flegg, no wonder the Liberal Party is a spent force in Queensland.


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Bruce Flegg - Dead Meat Walking!

Coming soon to an electorate near you.

Lock up your children now!

The compelling sequel to "Dead Meat" featuring the now-retired Gold Coast actor Bob Quinn.

Starring Dr Frankenstein - a second rate actor turned politician whose recent performances have been quite dismal.

Featuring amateur support actors from the Liberal Party's own Goon Show.

A boringly-long performance which will leave you anything but enthralled, while waiting for the drama-filled end of the show.

Will the head villain from the leafy western suburbs survive?

Will the Great Pretender from the inner-city Chardonnay Set finally win out?

Will all the actors blow themselves apart?

Will the projectionist see out the end of this feature length cinema classic?

Proudly presenting Bruce Flegg in "The Walking Dead":

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The latest picture of Bruce Flegg clinging to power!

The latest, exclusive picture of Dr Bruce Flegg clinging to power - right to the very end:








(Snapped by a member of the paparazzi in downtown Moggill!)

Bruce Flegg - Going, Going, Almost Gone!

Bruce Flegg - 3 months ago.

Bruce Flegg - 2 months ago.





Bruce Flegg - 1 month ago.





Bruce Flegg - 2 weeks ago.





Bruce Flegg - 1 week ago.

Bruce Flegg - This week .

Bruce Flegg - Next week!

Bruce the Goose - still hanging on as Liberal Leader

Bruce the Goose - the Member for Moggill - is still masquerading as the Liberal Party Leader in Queensland despite the fact that he no longer has the majority support of his Parliamentary colleagues.

Dr Bruce Flegg is the sort of leader who will still run around the Liberal Party barn yard after his head is well and truly chopped off.

And this is likely to happen tonight when the Liberal Party President is given unprecedented powers to exercise a casting vote in the event of a Liberal Parliamentary Party deadlock.

The Liberals seem to really enjoy tearing each other apart because their current performance is more spectacular than a river full of piranhas in the Amazon attacking some hapless soul crossing their path.

And lurking behind the shadows in this Liberal party fist-fight is none other former Senator Santo Santoro who should publicly reveal his hand and his involvement.

The late Labor Party MP Kevin Hooper once described him in Parliament as Scrotum Scumbaro - no doubt, a description whole heartedly applauded by many people in the Queensland Liberal Party today.

Bruce Flegg abandons Dog and Goanna Rules for Marquess of Queensberry

This has been an extraordinary week in Australian politics.

Five political leaders have gone in the space of 4 days:


Prime Minister John Howard

Deputy Liberal Leader Peter Costello

Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile

Democrats Leader Lyn Allison, and

NT Chief Minister Clare Martin.

And that now leaves the hapless political witch doctor from Moggill, Bruce Flegg - masquerading as the Liberals' Queensland Leader - whose tenure is at absolute breaking point.

The State Liberals are locked 4-all with half supporting Dr Flegg and the other half backing Tim Nicholls, the Member for Clayfield who was elected to the Queensland Parliament only a year ago.

Dr Flegg must have been suffering from short-term memory loss when he accused Mr Nicholls of "treachery" over his leadership ambitions because it was the same Bruce Flegg who undermined his own leader Bob Quinn last year, ambushing him in a leadership bid and finally ousting him.

It's funny how Dr Flegg was happy to play by Dog and Goanna Rules in 2006 but now insists on playing by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules when the plotters are coming after him!

For heaven's sake, why doesn't he just give up.

If Bruce Flegg had any sense of history, he would do what the highly-respected Australian Liberal Prime Minister John Grey Gorton did on 10 March 1971 when confronted with a no confidence motion in the party room as part of a bid by the Foreign Affairs Minister Billy McMahon to seize the leadership.

The vote was locked 33-all. Gorton then declared that as he lacked majority support in the Liberal Party, he would exercise his casting vote against himself and immediately stepped down as Party Leader and Prime Minister.

Bruce Flegg no longer has the support of a majority of his own Parliamentary Members and, if he had any sense of decency, he would step aside graciously so that the Liberal Party can start to rebuild itself.

The way the Liberals are going, if they start now, they might be in a position to win the State election - in 2030!

Bruce Flegg - For whom the bells toll!

A message to Bruce Flegg, Liberal Party Leader in Queensland.

If you walk past the Brisbane City Hall and hear the bells ringing, ask yourself: "For whom the bells toll?"

Well Bruce, I am sorry to say - "They toll for thee!"