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September 23rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
THE Queensland Party’s shotgun merger with Bob Katter’s new political entity was sparked by the feared resurrection of Kevin Rudd, it has been claimed.
Queensland Party members claim founder Aidan McLindon, who’s defected to Mr Katter’s new party, told them soon after the surprise merger that Mr Rudd was poised to return as prime minister within months.
Party spokesman and candidate for Ferny Grove, Jason Somerville, said Mr McLindon was very clear about the reason for the merger.
Mr Somerville said Mr McLindon told him, in the days after the early August merger, that it was necessary because Labor was poised to return Mr Rudd to the federal leadership well before the end of the year.
“I wasn’t the only one who was told that,” Mr Somerville said today.
“A number of other candidates were told that when they questioned why due process (regarding the merger) was circumvented.”
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“The reason given was they’d received information that Kevin Rudd was going to become prime minister again, and that based on his popularity, they were going to have an early election.”
He said Mr McLindon explained that if the Queensland Party went through all the processes required to dissolve it, and then have Mr Katter’s party’s registered so candidates could appear on ballot papers, it would have taken too long.
“If the registration process was still taking place, no one would be allowed to appear under Katter’s party on the ballot papers,” Mr Somerville said.
“The decision to merge was made by four people over a kitchen table on a weekend without any communication with the rest of the members or the candidates.
Queensland Party candidate for Coomera Rowan Harrip said he was told the same thing by members of the Queensland Party.
“I was told by (defecting member) Andrea Johanson and several other people as well that Kevin Rudd was going to be getting the prime ministership back,” he said.
“And off the back of that (Premier) Anna Bligh would be calling an election in Queensland and that’s why Katter needed the state-based branch ready to go.”
Mr McLindon has denied telling Queensland Party members the shotgun merger had anything to do with Mr Rudd’s return.
“There’s been a lot of false allegations out there and that’s certainly one of them,” he said.
“A lot of things have been said that are untrue. My focus is on the bigger picture. It doesn’t warrant commenting on.
“I’m largely ignoring them now and getting on with it.”
He said the majority of the Queensland Party’s executive had backed the merger, as did the likes of Mr Harrip who had since changed his tune.
For that reason, he said a decision was taken that there was no point going through the long, drawn-out process of calling a party convention to secure the necessary 75 per cent support to wind up the party.
He said he’d taken the view that the result would have been the same.
Earlier on Friday, Mr Somerville said the Queensland Party had secured the 500 members necessary to halt its deregistration by the Queensland Electoral commission.
To remain registered, political parties in Queensland must have either a sitting MP, something that vanished with Mr McLindon’s defection, or 500 members.
Mr McLindon said he wasn’t worried about the Queensland Party robbing federal independent Bob Katter’s Australian Party of votes.
“Not at all,” he said.
He said the fact the party had been able to garner enough members to remain registered simply showed how upset Queenslanders were with the two-party system.
“I wish them all the very best. The more political parties we have on the ballot paper all the better,” he said.
“The only votes that will be affected are the two major parties and that’s a good thing.”
The Queensland Party said it intended to stand candidates in as many seats as possible at the state election, due by early next year.
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