“PM flips the bird” – The Nassau Guardian (February 28 2017)

Excerpt from this article; “Hundreds of Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters; including children and senior citizens gasped in amazement last night as Prime Minister Perry Christie flipped the bird while explaining his response to what he called a ‘distorted’ claim.

Through he gave few details on exactly what he was referring to, a seemingly upset Christie showed the energetic crowd a quick flash of his middle finger as he explained his response to an allegation he had heard early yesterday.

‘We are now entering the period in our national life when all sorts of things will be said’, said Christie while speaking at a branch meeting for the Marathon, Fox Hill and St. Anne’s constituencies in Fox Hill.

‘When I was getting up this morning, they showed me an account of a lunatic who was saying I should deny I own this condominium.

‘This is what I [told] him…..’

Christie then lifted his middle finger.”

At what I see as a critical time in the campaign season for the Progressive Liberal Party, as the party begins to show some of its weaknesses which everyone knew existed; with the government losing traction and the support of the electorate that brought them to victory in 2012, with the present battle over the Free Town constituency , the dismal performance  of the economy under this administration being brought to light , the failings of the Ministry of National Security to date and the ill-advised introduction of the controversial ‘Spy Bill” and a myriad f other failures that the Prime Minister and his government have been rightfully criticized for; the Prime Minister all of a sudden loses his ‘cool’ over a matter of little or no consequence, this makes no sense but then we are discussing the Progressive Liberal Party, so yes there is that. But now there is the cry from his supporters of ‘tell dem bout dey sef’ – in what has been described by agriculture minister, V Alfred Grey as a ‘strong’ move.

A ‘strong’ move; right in the nick of time to suggest to the persons that had began to see through the façade and take note of the numerous faults of this Prime Minister and his government, causing them to began to lose faith; ‘I have had enough and it is time for me to take of the gloves and fight back’, a decisive move by my observation.

It is odd that “Cool PC” would lose his cool and stoop to this level over what some ‘lunatic’ has said about him shortly after he had threatened to tell the world what he was told about Dr. Hubert Minnis; it is curious and laughable.

Indeed, the situation seems to coincidental to be a coincidence, in my opinion and it is indeed sad that the leader of the Progressive Liberal Party would seemingly find it fitting to make such an obscene gesture in the public’s eye, to rally his troops and shift the momentum in his favor.

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

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