Letters: Defection to Katter no surprise - Courier Mail

KAP founder and Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter. Source: The Courier-Mail

IT COMES as no surprise a Government MP has quit the LNP and crossed to the KAP, the party formed by Bob Katter.

Queenslanders in the city and country have been stunned by a Government that promised the world before the election, only to find that instead of protecting Queensland families as a government should, have broken promises, offered no assistance to struggling farmers, with mass sackings of government workers, higher charges and nepotism.

There's not much improvement on what the previous Labor Party offered. I suspect there may be more defections to the KAP by MPs who have a conscience and want to represent the people who voted them in.

Albert Page, Loganholme

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VOTERS are tired of politicians who switch after they are elected, particularly soon after the poll. Ray Hopper didn't change to the Mad Hatters Party before the election because he knew he would not have been elected. If politicians switch, the seat should be handed to a candidate from the previously successful party.

Bob Carroll, Toowoomba

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IT'S time the LNP took a good look at its preselection criteria and dumped some of the deadwood, both state and federal. Rod Atherton, Jondaryan SURELY if an MP wants to switch parties before the next election he or she should resign and a by-election held at their expense.

Nola Croucher, Kenmore

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MANY people were extremely disappointed when Ray Hopper was preselected for Condamine over Stuart Copeland. It would seem that our concerns have been justified. Surely, when a politician decides to leave the party he represented, he or she should be made to resign and a by-election held.

Annette Grace, Broadbeach

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NO, the member for Gregory, Vaughan Johnson, won't quit the LNP. To do so would mean giving up the position of Chief Government Whip with an additional salary of $21,168.

Not a bad little earner on top of his already lucrative salary of $255,643, which includes base salary, miscellaneous allowance, electorate allowance and committee member salary.

J. Jamieson, Booval