The bitter, washed-up, hacks who compile this column are wondering whether we need a new MGH monthly or indeed annual mainstream mediocre award, namely best example of a right-wing columnist protecting their scrawny arse just in case!

They figure a likely contender would be regular InQueensland right-wing columnist David Fagan for his column uploaded yesterday and particularly the intro shown at top and below.

You BUGgers out there have probably noticed the present tense – sees – in Fagan’s assertion that there is NO ONE with any political interest who “sees any chance of Steven Miles winning a fourth term…”.

We won’t burden our reader with the mishmash of thought processes that followed that intro – trust us, it’s all largely based on obscure European political manoeuvrings that are far from relevant to state politics here – but are behind the reasons why he tagged the “but you never know. this is a year to expect the unexpected” onto the end of that intro.

Fagan is one of InQueensland’s rightwing politics observers who have been thumping on for yonks that Miles has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning on 26 October – and there’s no doubt on the most recent polls alone that Queenslanders have their baseball bats ready to give Miles and Labor a Campbell Newman-level thumping.

But what our bitter, washed-up, old hacks take most exception to is Fagan’s absurd claim that no-one with any political interest sees ANY CHANCE at all for a Labor miracle win.

What utter hyperbolic nonsense! The people who run The Bug – and those who compile the MGH – do have an intense interest in politics and unlike various InQueensland political writers adhere to the adage that if a week is a long time in politics, the four months and a few days left to the state election are an eternity.

Fagan’s meandering effort in no way, shape or form goes into any of the sensible arguments as to why Labor could still pull victory from the jaws of defeat – hint, an almighty wedge is developing between Labor and the LNP on where’s the money going to come from to fix the state’s various problems – but Fagan, just like his colleagues at InQueensland, appears totally uninterested in opining such a piece.

Maybe he just knows instinctively that the owners of InQueensland simply aren’t interested in that perfectly legitimate, balanced, central line of thought and reasoning.

Either way, we at the MGH will stick with our view that Fagan’s column this week is nothing more than his “get-out-of-jail” card. A closely run contest in late October could have Fagan referencing this week’s column in the weeks after election day and pointing to his genius, his fairness and his balance as an astute politics observer.

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