“Mitchell: PLP should maintain message discipline” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) shouldn’t share its internal ‘cut and thrust’ with the public, suggested PLP Senator Fred Mitchell yesterday.

Though he did not point specifically to recent comments made by Exuma and Ragged Island MP Chester Cooper on the party’s May 10 defeat, Mitchell said ‘It is important for all of the contending voices, so to speak, to lend to the enterprise of trying to get the PLP re-elected to office and I am committed to that more than anything else.

‘I think the message discipline is very important.

‘I think that while you do not keep the public in the dark about what you are doing as a party, I think the internal cut and thrust of what we should and shouldn’t do, ay and should and shouldn’t say, is important to share amongst ourselves.

‘And that dynamic, I think, will produce a very powerful organization and one which is equipped to run the country again.”

While it may be true that the internal ‘cut and thrust’ of any political organization does not necessarily have to be shared with the public; it is also fact that if the ‘internal cut and thrust’ is only a fight to keep things the same, then there is something fundamentally wrong and also if your only reason now is to have your party re-elected, showing no willingness at the attempt to work along with the governing party to move the country forward for the betterment of the people, then it has become obvious that your political sunset has set and it is time for you to move on, as you are missing the original ‘message disciple’ of our own political organization.

Then there is the question of has the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) maintained it’s ‘message disciple’ and if not has the message improved or simply become outdated, while there may be a question of an outdated message being forward by the ‘old guard’ of the Progressive Liberal Party, there is also the issue of Senator Mitchell suggesting that he does not think that ‘the public should not be kept in the dark about what it is that you are doing as a party’, this is also very true but doe she not realize that while as government his party not only kept their supporters in the dark but also the persons that they were elected to govern and therefore were accountable to?

Although Senator Mitchell did not single out Chester Cooper, Exuma and Ragged Island MP, it has become painfully obvious over the years that the Progressive Liberal Party does not take to kindly to young voice that goes against the party’s message, no matter how dated it has become but it may be wise for Senator Mitchell to listen to Chester Cooper MP because at the very least he won his seat, which seems the only interest of Senator Mitchell.

The Progressive Liberal Party continues to fail for one reason, it is their nature.

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