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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Labor will struggle form an effective opposition after the Liberal National Party sent it to the slaughter after almost 20 years of rule in Queensland.
Campbell Newman will be the next premier, with the LNP expected to have a staggering 74 seats in the 89-seat parliament.
Labor will have 10 seats at the most, analysts say, and Premier Anna Bligh has only just held onto her South Brisbane electorate.
She’ll need Greens preferences to get her across the line after heading into Saturday’s election with a solid 15 per cent margin.
Labor’s best and brightest have been thrown out, including Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser and at least five other ministers.
Katter’s Australian Party is expected to have three seats, and there will be two independents.
Ms Bligh’s predecessor Peter Beattie said Labor had seen a blood letting like no other, and would struggle to form an opposition.
He said Labor might have to copy the strategy that has handed the LNP a staggering majority, and shop outside parliament for its next leader.
“The Labor Party may need to do to Campbell Newman what Campbell Newman did to the Labor party,” he told the Nine Network.
“We may need to find a leader from outside of parliament. At the moment we’re going to be fighting to form an opposition and that’s not good for Queensland.
“We don’t have an Opposition tonight. That’s our problem.”
Labor needs to win at least 10 seats to retain party status in the parliament, but the ABC’s election analyst Antony Green said that parliament could “bend the rules” on that.
“Are you feeling gracious? That’s not one of Campbell Newman’s strong suits,” host Kerry O’Brien put to the LNP’s parliamentary leader Jeff Seeney.
“We will deal with that question in the coming days,” Mr Seeney said.
Mr Seeney said the predicted 15.7 swing against Labor was a “staggering” result.
Liberal commentator Michael Kroger said the LNP’s “extraordinary, audacious move” to let Mr Newman lead the party to the election from outside parliament had been “a spectacular success”.
Mr Newman is preparing to make his victory speech, as Ms Bligh readies herself for taking responsibility for an unprecedented loss for Labor in Queensland.
In Ashgrove, Labor’s Kate Jones could not stop the man known as Can Do Campbell.
Her voice wavered at times as she said she’d called the man she’s spent a year fighting to say congratulations.
“I phoned Campbell Newman, the premier-elect, before I came here and congratulated him on making history,” she told supporters in the Brisbane seat.
“He knows that there is a lot of weight on his shoulders with a very convincing win tonight. I hope that he lives up to the expectations that have been placed on him.”
Deputy Premier and Treasurer Andrew Fraser conceded he had lost his Brisbane seat of Mount Coot-tha.
“The Labor party is a great institution in Australia and it will be there tomorrow,” he told the Seven Network.
” … I think tomorrow life will go on.”
Nine’s political editor Laurie Oakes said the result for Ms Bligh, who held her seat with a whopping 15 per cent margin, was a severe punishment.
He said Greens preferences should get her over the line.
“She will, but at the same time it’s a slap in the face for the premier and a slap in the face for a very, very safe Labor seat,” Mr Oakes said.
Liberal National Party president Bruce McIver said it was now up to the party’s MPs to deliver for Queenslanders.
The election was proof of what would happen to them if they failed to do that.
“The Queensland people have spoken on a tired 20-year Labor government; and I think it’s a warning for us that we could face the same thing,” he told AAP.
“We have got to be providing Queensland with a viable government that does handle the issues that are dear to them and Queenslanders.
“We will be listening to them every day and not once every three years.”
LNP donor, mining magnate Clive Palmer, said the result should alarm federal Labor.
“This is a bigger swing against Labor (than the swing against the party at the last NSW election),” he told AAP.
“It’s more significant too because it’s close to the federal election.
“Labor is on the way down and they’ll go right down because Australians want honesty.”
He denied he would have a massive influence over an LNP government.
“I have as much power as any member of the party,” he said.
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