Qld Labor's woes my fault: Beattie FORMER Queensland premier Peter Beattie says he retired too early and feels personally responsible for the state's Labor being in the political wilderness. His comments will sting his successor Anna Bligh, who last year led Labor to the worst defeat of a sitting government in Queensland history. Labor was reduced to just seven seats in the 89-seat parliament at the 2012 poll. Mr Beattie, who retired in September 2007, said it was his decision to elevate Ms Bligh and he has to own the consequences. "When I retired, the primary vote was about 50 per cent, the two-party-preferred 55-45, Jeff Seeney was the leader of the opposition, we could have got re-elected with an increased majority," Mr Beattie has told The Courier-Mail. Mr Beattie said he didn't believe Labor would be in the bind it is now if he'd made some different positions. The key players of that government, obviously I supported and put in those positions, so the buck stops with me. But he moved to quash any speculation of a comeback, saying key players of past governments must stay out of the picture. "If Beattie, Bligh, (Paul) Lucas and Andrew Fraser are involved in the next campaign in any way, then that just gives Campbell Newman his election platform," he said. However, he said there were some members of the former Bligh government who should get a second go. Cameron Dick, Grace Grace, Di Farmer and Murray Watt should be pre-selected and made shadow cabinet members from outside parliament, he said.