Queensland's deputy LNP leader channelled his love of Elvis in a different way as MPs eased the law-and-order approach to personal drug use.
It’s almost common knowledge that the Queensland LNP’s second-in-charge is partial to cosplaying as the King. That’s Elvis Presley, not Charles III, of whom any impression would probably see Jarrod Bleijie booted from his Monarchist League gig.
But when the Sunshine Coast-based MP and Twitter warrior rose to his feet in state parliament last week to rail against progressive reforms to the state’s drug laws, he channelled the rock’n’roll icon in a different way.
Surfers Paradise MP John-Paul Langbroek, who led the LNP in opposition for two years between 2009 and 2011, noted the “strange coincidence” the bill would be passed by parliament on April 20, or “420 Day” – a key day in the cannabis culture calendar.
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