BOB Katter has rebuked the Queensland Government for assuming that embattled MP Billy Gordon would resign from Parliament, saying Mr Gordon was not Labor’s “little black puppet on a string”.

Responding to Mr Gordon’s public declaration to remain in state Parliament, Mr Katter released a rather strange statement on his party website, saying that “in the last two cases where [a scandal] has occurred in the federal Parliament, there was never any question raised about the Member resigning.

“So why was it assumed here that Billy Gordon would resign?

“I can’t help but think that the Queensland Government thought they had a little black puppet on a string.”

Mr Katter said that far from being a puppet, Mr Gordon was a “gladiator”, and that he did not want Mr Gordon’s newly found independence to be “destroyed” by the government.

“Where an independent becomes a rubber stamp for the Government, they destroy their independence.

“The very sad cases of Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott are classical examples.

“I can’t see Billy Gordon walking down that pathway.”

Speaking to News Corp Australia this afternoon, Mr Katter defended his comments, saying “those big corporations that are the LNP and ALP see Billy as a black puppet”.

“I want to ask you, why did everyone just assume he’s going to resign, when they never assumed the two federal whitefellas were going to resign?” Mr Katter told News Corp, referring to disgraced former MP Craig Thomson.

“What is the difference between their position and Billy’s?”

Mr Katter said that when he first arrived in Canberra, he was treated the same way.

“That’s how they saw me- as a blackfella, a little blackfella on a string.”

Mr Katter said that “not a person in North Queensland wasn’t aware” of Billy Gordon’s past, and said some “prominent” individuals - “I’m excluding Warren Truss here” - strategically revealed his past.

“They were shouting it through the rooftops that they were going to get him! So why didn’t the allegations come a fortnight earlier?”

He said that Billy Gordon was a gladiator who everyone expected to “resign ... Whimpering and simpering in the corner like the token blackfella.”

“Im not going to stand in the sideline while he’s getting horse-whipped.

“I’d just bloody like to be his barrister,” Mr Katter said.

Mr Gordon resigned from Labor last month after it was revealed he had failed to disclose a criminal history, outstanding child support payments and reports of domestic abuse.

As a result of his resignation from the party, the Queensland Government has been thrown into chaos, and is now a hung parliament.

In order to continue governing, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will have to rely on votes from two Katter Party MPs and independent MP Peter Wellington.

Mr Gordon has vowed to support the Labor Party regardless.