I know right now that Prime Minister Perry Christie must be thinking to himself, “You can’t even think out loud in this country anymore!”’ the short answer is that it all depends on what you are thinking out loud about.

“PM: No new hurricane tax” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “There will be no new tax to defray the cost of the damage associated with Hurricane Matthew, which decimated the northwest islands earlier this month, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday.

Christie statements to reporters on Monday that  when Cabinet next met it might consider introducing a special tax to help finance the restoration efforts associated with Matthew, triggered furious backlash on social media.

Christie appeared to take exception to the media reporting the statement, which he made during ‘dynamic conversation’ while visiting impacted residents on Marshall Road.

‘As prime minister and minister of finance, I sought to go to every area several times,’ said Christie, who admitted he had not visited his constituency of Centerville since the passage of the storm, despite acknowledging that many of the residents were still without power and water.”

“Christie appeared to take exception to the media reporting the statement…” really?

So he said it to whom and for what reason? 

Just thinking out loud?

For the Prime Minister to ‘take exception’ to reporters reporting his statement is far beyond me and cleanly beyond reason, logic and commonsense.

Who were they and what do they [reporters] do?  I think it is time for the Prime Minister to step aside as he has lost track of the ‘game’.

He [the Prime Minister] then goes on to say, “The press was with me and I was talking to them about their country and it was a dynamic conversation’, but yet he takes exception to the story being reported; Stephen King could not make this type of nonsense up.

Surely the man is mad.

But the real reason as to why he cannot be taken seriously, beside the fact that he openly admits to abandoning his constituents is laughable; “Taxation is not imposed by the prime minister or minister of finance standing up on Marshall Road and saying we are going to impose a tax.”; of not course Mr. Prime Minister but I am willing to bet my lucky drawers that if this was not reported and you did not get the ‘backlash’ that you did, it most likely would have been on this week’s agenda in the House of Assembly and it probably still was.

Surely, he must have been thinking out loud.

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

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