LNP LOSING THE ON-LINE WAR WITH LABOR IN QUEENSLAND - AND LOSING ELECTIONS AS A RESULT

Times are changing. Times have already changed. That may well not be a good thing for society in general, but that's just the way it is. Technology has taken over our lives, to the point where a mobile phone is not just a phone anymore - it's a mobile computer.

It's a 24/7 round the clock gateway to any amount of news and propaganda which is saturating our minds. No, you can't say it's a good thing can you? But good thing or not, as far as Queensland is concerned, Labor is winning the on-line / mobile phone app war with the LNP. In fact, Labor is whipping the LNP's backside in that respect.

The LNP lost the state election not just because Tim Nicholls is a poor political salesman and because he didn't give some assurances to 80000 Brisbane public service workers that he definitely wouldn't force them out of a job. Those two factors certainly hurt the LNP in greater Brisbane, but ultimately, what greatly contributed towards the LNP's election loss, just like in the 2015 election, was the party's inability to counter Labor's scheming use of on-line platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, to peddle union funded propaganda and huuhaa.

The LNP in this election and the last one was a sitting duck at the mercy of Labor's propaganda machine. Chances are that the average Gen-Y-er who lives in Brisbane and lives on their mobile phone or on Facebook, and during an election campaign sees ten times as much advertising from Labor as opposed to the LNP, will be gullible enough to get sucked in by what they see the most of on their computer or mobile phone screen.

Labor peddles lies, half truths and all out deception, not to say that the LNP is not guilty of some of that too but the LNP is not saturating our cyberspace during every election nearly as much as Labor. Four years is a long time to be in the opposition political wilderness, that's what confronts the LNP now.

It should certainly be enough time for the party's new leadership team to acknowledge the great need for the party to become more tech savvy, and counter Labor's online propaganda machine, if they want the LNP to strike back in 2020. If that doesn't happen, Labor will keep winning elections until doomsday.