Queensland Nationals leader Lawrence Springborg has spent seven years trying to woo his Liberal coalition partner into a political marriage.

Just when he thought he was going to get his bride up the aisle along comes the newly installed Liberal President Mal Brough.

Others might recall Mr Brough when he was a Howard Government minister.

Some in Queensland think he's a political messiah. Others are coming to the view that he's just a very naughty boy.

Mr Brough seems to be suffering that all too common disease among dumped politicians, relevancy deficiency disorder.

Having declared that he was in favour of a merger he is now demanding to be made the President or he'll scuttle plans for the new political entity, everyone else wants to give the membership a vote later this month.

Tonight the 47 members of the Liberal state council will meet to decide who is right.

Whatever happens Mr Brough is in danger of destroying what others have spent months creating.

Until yesterday the Queensland Opposition, long considered a political joke, was getting some credibility.

That could all be about to end.

The electorate is yet again seeing a dysfunctional Liberal Party arguing over the spoils of defeat.

Parliamentary leader Mark McArdle says: "the concern that I've got is that it will fracture my party and also in the eyes of the community we will lose significant credibility."

Boy he got that right, although some cynics would suggest that in the Liberal credibility stakes nothing from nothing is nothing.

At this point Mr Springborg must be hoping the Liberals pull out and he can form his own party without their baggage.