CanDo’s popularity waning

Nearly half of Queensland voters believe Premier Campbell Newman’s cuts have gone too far, with support for the Liberal National Party plunging 12 percentage points since last month, a new opinion poll suggests. Well of course the polls are down. Phase One of getting Queensland back in the black entails axing excessive public servants to a level where the state doesn’t have to borrow money to pay their wages. It also involves cut-backs in services and no one, particularly those who accept these services without thought of budgeting, likes this. It’s par for the course that after taking over from ALP fiscal vandals, Conservative governments lose popularity while they square the books and pay back deficits. After everyone settles and the state starts moving again, increased investment and subsequent jobs brings the voters back. However, after a parliament or two of financial security, the voters get bored and experiment with another ALP government, thus maintaining the loop. It was ever thus.