“Gray: Christie is holding the PLP together” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article: “Minister of Agriculture V. Alfred Gray yesterday said he supports Prime Minister Perry Christie staying on as leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) as Christie is holding the PLP together ‘because everyone respects his leadership.’

‘It does not mean that everyone agrees with everything he say or does’, Gray says.

Gray also said the prime minister is the ’best man for the job, ‘and there is no one in the PLP who could challenge Christie at ‘any convention and win.’

When asked about Christies’ statement that the PLP would be unstable if he stepped down, Gray said, “That is speculative to say the least.’

‘But, I do know that the Prime Minister has the support of the majority, if not all, of the [PLP] MP’s today.”

The Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie is now 71.

Alfred Gray calls the Prime Minister’s remarks that suggest that without him the PLP would fall apart “speculative”, while at the same time endorsing these remakes further making the statement that “…..there is no one in the PLP who could challenge Christie at ‘any convention and win’, does this mean that Perry Christie is the only person within the Progressive Liberal Party at this time that is capable of successfully leading the organization? Surely, Minister Gray is not suggesting this for one moment.

Maybe Minister Gray is correct when he says “……there is no one in the PLP who could challenge Christie at ‘any convention and win” but how progressive is it to even put this notion forward and is Mr. Gray suggesting that he, himself, is not capable?

So the bottom line is that “the prime minister [Perry Christie] is the ’best man for the job, and “that the Prime Minister has the support of the majority, if not all, of the [PLP] MP’s today.” 

Well we know that he does not have the full support of all PLP members, as Dr. Kendal Major, member of parliament for Garden Hills has come out and questioned this statement and he has been labeled “delusional” by former PLP MP Philip Galanis, so surely there are others within the PLP that not only disagree with the PLP’s leader’s assertion  of being the stabilizing factor in that party but also simply no longer see him as the ‘best man for  the job’, the question now becomes what would make Minister Gray come out and make such a bold statement, even as he belittles himself?

Sometimes it all comes down to paying back a ‘favor’

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.