Are you smarter than a Queenslander?

Are you smarter than a toothpick?  Hm, now that's a bit of an awkward question to answer honestly.  Are you smarter than a Queenslander?  Now that's a question I can answer without crushing your soul, unless you think you are smarter than you actually are.  Yesterday I would have unequivocally agreed with your incessant whinging that you are smarter than a Queenslander, but not so much today. 

A lot of thing have changed since then.  Well not that much really; just the much welcome deletion from the universe of the Queensland ALP party.  Who knew that our friends up north - those crazy kids who wrestle crocodiles, are deadset psychopathic when it comes to cane toads and say 'ay?' all the time for no apparent reason - were so forward thinking and intelligent? 

The people of Queensland have spoken and have vanquished Anna Bligh's torch in some sort of Tribal Council, ay.  If this was federal politics, Kevin Rudd would be banging his torch on the ground, Bamm-Bamm Rubble style.

The fallout following yesterday's Queensland Election has left the ALP with only seven seats, which is enough to form a netball team, but not enough to be considered a major political party.  Perhaps they should cut their losses, get out their pleated skirts and join a Saturday morning primary school competition.  The Greens won no seats whatsoever, and that incoherent nutter, Bob Katter, won a couple of seats in the lower house with his own incoherent nutter party, which says a lot about the Greens.

The federal implications of this political massacre are clear; the electorate are learning that Labor are really not very good at governing.  It turns out that if you continually mismanage the local economy and build up debt, then even Queenslanders will work out that an efficient way to solve this problem is to kick your sorry arse to the curb.