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February 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Queensland’s newest conservative party leader hopes to ride into power on a double decker London bus.
But billionaire Liberal National Party (LNP) backer Clive Palmer thinks Bob Katter will only be the leader of the opposition, after the Labor party is wiped out at the March 24 poll.
“The Labor party won’t win one seat. That’s what I predict,” Mr Palmer told reporters on Saturday.
“I think you will see the Katter party will become the opposition of Queensland and there will be an LNP government.”
The first convention of Katter’s Australian Party in Brisbane on Saturday was as colourful as the north Queensland federal MP himself.
It was launched with the unveiling of the `Katmobile’, a fire-engine red, branded double decker bus that Bob Katter says will take the party message to the people of Queensland.
The bus driver admitted that the 4.42 metre tall vehicle had trouble getting to the convention because it would not fit under a city overpass.
The convention heard that the fledgling conservative party is not content to be an also-ran at the election, despite polling at only 4 per cent in the leadup.
“We can win this state election,” KAP senior vice president Robert Nioa told about 200 of the party faithful during the opening address.
Mr Palmer had a similar confidence in LNP leader Campbell Newman, brushing off questions about what the party would do if it won the election but Mr Newman failed to win the seat of Ashgrove.
Mr Newman is being dogged by leadership questions after a poll on Friday showed his popularity is slipping in the inner-west Brisbane seat he needs to win.
The ReachTEL poll showed Mr Newman at 51 per cent and sitting Labor MP Kate Jones at 49 per cent on a two-party preferred vote.
But Mr Palmer said Mr Newman was still polling much higher than Ms Jones.
Mr Katter was given a rock star’s welcome at his party’s convention, with a standing ovation and cheers from a room packed with supporters waving KAP-branded cardboard bats overhead.
He told them Queensland Labor and the LNP were both “owned” by mining companies and were determined to sell off Queensland’s assets.
“If you vote for us it will be different,” he said.
The party has received backing from the heavyweight Electrical Trades Union, and Mr Katter hinted that more unions could follow.
ETU secretary Dean Mighell told reporters that both major parties had failed working people.
“The man on the land and the woman on the land have got so much more in common now with workers in the city and manufacturing workers,” he said.
Country singer James Blundell performed the party’s campaign song and talkback presenter Alan Jones told the convention via video message that the destruction of prime agricultural land was the greatest crisis facing the state.
But an on-stage appearance at the convention by the reigning Australian Rodeo Queen will add fuel to critics who have labelled KAP sexist.
The party has four female candidates in a field of 54.
Mr Palmer, whose companies mine huge coal reserves in Queensland, gave some credibility to Mr Katter’s claim that the LNP was beholden to miners.
“When (Mr Newman) was offered the leadership of the LNP, everyone said I have some influence in the LNP. I hope I have, I’m a life member and have been a member for 50 years,” he said.
“So I expect to have some influence because of my membership more than anything else.”
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