“PLP’s react to Mitchell’s admission” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Former Progressive Liberal (PLP) Cabinet minister George Smith yesterday expressed surprise and disappointed with PLP Chairman Fred Mitchell’s admission on Monday night that the party knew ahead of the May 2017 election the PLP would lose.

Smith, who, along with a small fraction of PLP’s, encouraged the party to consider new leadership ahead of the election, questioned why, if Mitchell and others knew this, nothing was done to correct it.

“I am surprised and disappointed that my very esteemed chairman has taken so long to come to a conclusion when all the signs were pointing there, and we seemed not to have taken the steps necessary to correct the impression that we were going to lose,’ he said.”

So it would seem that Senator Mitchell had some insight as to the direction that the election would take and is finally having a “come to the cross moment” over it because while some of Mitchell’s colleagues express “disappointment” at these remarks, some of us express shock and wonderment because these remakes seem to contradict sentiments expressed by Mr. Mitchell shortly following the general election wherein the chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) express with great brackishness his opinion the Free National Movement’s (FNM) electoral win; as a person quite taken aback and in a state of shock at the lost.

“I [Fred Mitchell] have read a lot of rubbish over the past few days since the election from the FNM leadership and its supporters.

His take that, IN quote, “The FNM and its supporters should not believe their own propaganda’. End quote.

Mitchell went on to call on PLP’s to not accept the propaganda the FNM is telling them about themselves.”

He went on to call names, ‘Eileen Carron, Louis Bacon, Fred Smith, Sarkis Izmirlian’, describing them as ‘the rich now in charge’, and the start of the ‘fight’ now against the rich and powerful monied interests.  The rats are guarding the cheese’, Mitchell warned those in the PLP camp, that ‘The road will be difficult because these people in the FNM are especially vicious and vindictive.  They have no moral or ethical underpinnings which will prevent them from doing anything that they can get away with.  That is the reality.”

No Senator Mitchell, “the road will be difficult because” of persons such as yourself that seem to have become addicted to power and would even prostitute your ‘morals’ for it; but these are hardly the words of one that foresaw his own demise but rather the words of one simply unable to accept his demise and now only speaking out only in a desperate attempt to remain relevant, at any cost; even personal embarrassment.

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