Yesterday in New Providence was like the movie “The Purge”, with reports of all sorts of outlandish, unbelievable and illegal acts taking place; fortunately most of the reports were just rumors.  One of these acts took place at the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) headquarters during a candidate ratification exercise; this I also thought was yet another outlandish rumor upon first hearing it but I have come to find out this morning that is it actually a very sad reality.

“Worst days in PLP is better than best days in FNM” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “As hundreds of Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters cheered him last night, Prime Minister Perry Christie declared that the PLP is an infinitely better choice to govern The Bahamas then the Free national Movement (FNM) and urged them to be serious in ensuring that their party does not squander an opportunity to return to office after the general election.

‘We have our own people who express some disappointments, but you are in the bedrock of our support,’ Christie said.

“You have to think of the kind of democracy that we live in….I want you to go straight through with the PLP.’

“I want you to have an attitude that PLP or ‘nuttin’ because you have to believe as PLP supporters that the worst day under the PLP is better than the best day in the FNM.”

Mr. Prime Minister, exactly what type of democracy do we live in because according to the Progressive Liberal Party government it can be safely deduced that democracy is only applicable under this government when it is convenient; so is this to say that we live under a flexible and convenient form of democracy?

The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) as the oldest and seemingly most organized political organization in the country has shown that democracy is something to be applied when only absolutely necessary; as can be seen in the fact that this party has deprived it members of the democratic right to choose a new leader or re-elected the present leader by not holding a general convention within the past eight years although constitutionally the party is mandated to have one every two years and then there was the matter of the flip flop on the Gaming Referendum, but these are small things, right?

What I find most outlandish is the statement by the prime minister, suggesting that the present Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) administration has done a better job than the previous Free National Movement (FNM) administration; this is totally and completely asinine even for the Prime Minister to think much less say a loud.  The main reason being that the present PLP administration with the Hon. Perry Christie as Minister of Finance, have been horrible stewards of the country’s economy and even with the tax reform; the introduction of Value-Added Tax (VAT) and global economies improving, the county has still suffered four sovereign credit ratings downgrades, while unemployment still continues to raise; how does one even do this?

But yet the Prime Minister would still make the bold statement of “Worst days in PLP is better than best days in FNM”, he must mean within the actual party itself, because he cannot be referring to the country at large, unless he really had reached a point of being as he was described earlier this week in The Guardian; “A desperate man with a burgeoning god complex”; which I figured was nice because the rest of us just see him a ‘crazy’.

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

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