Uggies, Oreos and Politics!

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Barely twenty years old and a University student from Queensland is Wyatt Roy; the youngest ever Liberal Federal MP to be voted in by his peers after Saturday’s election.

In QLD, the Liberal National Party picked young Wyatt Roy as its candidate to contest the Labor-held seat of Longman. As a twenty three year old youngster myself, I find this not only inspiring but absolutely incredible that the community as a whole and the members in the party felt that a young inspiring politician with only 20 years of life experience would be better suited to lead than the former State MP Jon Sullivan who is a worldly 59.

Wyatt was quoted in the QLD Courier Mail as saying “I want to thank you for looking to the future with hope, with inspiration, with excitement, and I promise you I won’t let you down”. But this said, he is still a Gen Y and so the Courier Mail also had this to add:

“Mr Roy’s Facebook page yesterday showed he was a fan of American lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret, KFC, The Economist and State of Origin fights”

Could we be any more typical? The statement continues…..

“He is, however, still a fan of The Economist — and, incidentally, ‘pubs’, ‘going to the footie’, ‘Oreo biscuits’, and ‘trackies and uggies’ ”

But thanks to an on the ball publicist it seems his penchant for Origin fights, KFC and lingerie is now over, with all three today not showing on his list of fan pages.

So there you have it. The North Brisbane region has finally voted in a member of the Gen Y society in all good faith that the country needs a fresh take on things and I would say the Brisbanites are onto something. Although of course some political insiders laughed when told about Mr Roy’s pre-selection (who’s laughing now?).

Personally, I would love to see a 20 year old Prime Minister because how could the country be steered astray when the most stressful thing on our minds is whether or not the Oreo cookie has the cream on both sides?