KAP fence sitting hands power to Labor

Not only that, but KAP's decision to drag out negotiations over its 28 point list of demands means Governor Paul de Jersey will now not hesitate in granting the authority for Ms Palaszczuk to form government once counting is concluded possibly as early as today.

Any validity in the LNP's argument that it should remain in caretaker government until after the Ferny Grove by-election have now evaporated.

The long and short of it is that Labor does not need KAP. Labor is set to win 44 seats in its own right and has locked in the support of independent Peter Wellington, to gain a 45 seat majority in Queensland's 89 seat parliament.

Far from being "just a sneeze" that could change government in Queensland, KAP has all but blown any opportunity is has of securing a better deal for rural and regional Queensland.

Labor has paid little more than lip-service to KAP's list of demands as a part of a strategy to delay KAP from supporting the LNP.

The LNP is set to win 42 seats. It could only return to power if it gained the support of KAP, which holds two seats, and then achieved a near miracle and went on to win Ferny Grove back from Labor in a still to be announced by-election.

However, without KAP's support the LNP cannot campaign in Ferny Grove as an alternative government.

While the two party preferred margin in Ferny Grove is only about 1.4 per cent, voters in the north Brisbane seat have already once given the nod to Labor. Voters are more likely to back a candidate who will be in government rather than one in opposition.

The LNP is currently locked in to losing Ferny Grove and Labor is once again set to deliver its destructive brand of debt-driven economic management.

KAP is seriously misreading Queensland's political landscape if it believes it can drag Labor to the bargaining table.

Demands for new roads, rail lines, ethanol mandates, help for dairy farmers, and farmer friendly banks will remain no more than KAP electioneering from a party that prefers the luxury of fence sitting rather than guts needed to deliver real results.

The Palaszczuk government in-waiting has telegraphed that like Beattie and Bligh, it is ready to belt the bush. Expect to see the elimination of important Vegetation Management Act reforms, a return of Labor's leasehold land strategy, wild rivers laws, more restrictions on primary producers within the Great Barrier Reef catchments, and tougher animal welfare regulations.

KAP could make a difference. As it stands KAP is only ensuring Labor will be in power.