My reader will probably be delighted to know that this is the very last column I’m ever going to write about how the Queensland LNP shamelessly, unethically, immorally, indecently, improperly, stole the Brisbane City Council’s intellectual property and made it their own.

I talk of course of the council’s cleat – its alternating rectangles of blue and yellow down the left-hand-side of official council material that council rules say must not be used for political purposes.

That’s it on the left-hand-side of LNP’s footpath corflutes used in the just completed BCC elections. Yes, I’ve argued for two decades that the LNP have broken both the letter and the spirit of council rules. They say they don’t use the council cleat. Yeah, right!

Be that as it may – and before I end this obsession – I need to tell my reader about a very embarrassing thing that happened to me a wee while ago. Embarrassing because I don’t think there’s anyone else who has banged on more, and knows more of the background to this LNP cleat-cheat business, than little humble me.

But the truth of the matter is that I got conned. Only momentarily for sure, but conned I was and it’s still embarrassing the hell out of me.

Got this very official looking letter from what I truly thought was the city council. Had the cleat down the left-hand-side and everything!

Wasn’t until I opened it and the propaganda leaflets from Lord Mayor Schrinner and Northgate ward councillor Adam Allan came tumbling out that I realised I’d been had. Schrinner’s and Allan’s propaganda had the council cleat down the left-hand-side, naturally enough.

Yep, I got conned good and proper. Not for long but conned I got.

And a quick disclaimer: these are not my hands or the material I received. When I went to scan that envelope and its contents, I found I’ve misplaced them. What you see I’ve taken from an X post on March 5 from a Jacob Aldridge, who apparently also lives in the Northgate ward. I’m hopeful he won’t mind my using his images, the same that I got in the mail.

By the way, Jacob is largely spot on – what Schrinner and Allan sent us is shamefully misleading and deceptive. I do disagree with his view that the letter looked like an official lord-mayoral annoucement.

Not quite. These two fraudsters wanted the Northgate ward recipients of this letter to think it was from the Brisbane City Council. That’s been at the heart of the two-decades long theft of the council’s IP. Subliminally or otherwise, how many residents now believe that the BCC endorses LNP Queensland as its political party of choice?

The LNP have spent those 20 years establishing the notion that they and the BCC are one and the same.

So it’s me signing off, making a cleat – sorry, clean – break. My work here over 20 long years is done and clearly it hasn’t been anywhere near good enough.

Don Gordon-Brown

PS: The latest Queensland Electoral Commission figures have Adam Allan on 45.57 per cent of the vote, Labor’s Vicki Ryan on 35.57 per cent and the Greens’ Tiana Peneha on 18.86 per cent. In a fair and just world, a strong preference flow from the Greens should have Allan in heaps of trouble, although the ABC has Allan ahead 2PP by a narrow 51 votes. He’ll probably move well ahead in late counting.

Once again, before I sign off as a cleat-cheat chronicler, it’s very, very possible that Allan is only going to win through the disgusting, devious, deceptive “city council” letter he put his name to, and the council cleat he splashed on the leaflet inside that letter, along with all his other campaign material he used for this poll.

One final reminder…

He really should blush, but in my two-decade study of the LNP’s cleat-cheating ways, I’ve come to the conclusion that LNP pollies don’t know how to blush. They do know how to trample on principle and the open and honest pursuit of politics if there’s a vote to be had – DGB

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