ON Saturday 31 August, political activists were waving LNP signs at Kennedy Highway traffic as it approached the decrepit Barron River bridge at Kuranda.

The implication seemed to be that the LNP would fix the bridge.

However, as Brisbane Labor transport minister Bart Mellish told the media in mid-July, both the LNP and ALP have known for decades that the bridge would need early replacement.

Neither of them made any plans to do so or saved any money to pay for it.

The ALP will lose office at the October election because people everywhere are sick of bad government.

The LNP will win by default because that's the way the electoral system is designed. The LNP is highly unlikely to quickly and efficiently replace the bridge.

They're more likely to do exactly what the ALP would have done - a barely adequate replacement a long time away at a very high cost.

If the LNP and ALP were one party pretending to be two to give voters the illusion of choice, how would it look any different?