Statement form the Leader of the Opposition [the Hon. Philip Davis]

Responding to The Prime Minister

28 January 2019

Except from this statement; “Bahamians were treated from their Prime Minister to a litany of non-performance.  What a travesty this address was.  A nothing burger trying to pass for sensible public policy and accomplishment.

Mr. Prime Minister, after twenty months I office you must surely know you cannot simply pronounce something as truth – that which is clearly false.  You have fallen short.

The Prime Minister stapled together every piece of paper he could to try to make the government look ‘busy’. It’s the kind of thing that children do when the teacher walks into the class.  But nothing he said tonight can hide the fact that this government is failing.

I wonder who is the ‘the teacher’ in this situation.

Mr. Leader of the Opposition; the Hon. Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, I label your entire response to the prime minister’s address as “non-responsive”, as it really does not state exactly how you see the government as failing but rather runs off on a tangent only understood by the person(s) that wrote it and the person that presented it.

The question that I have for you is do you really believe anything that you said or do you see the possibility for the further erosion of your base and would do and say anything to prevent this?

As you speak to others of stapling “together every piece of paper’….to make the government look busy”, many now wonder if this was the tactic that was employed by the former Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government when it came to the polices of the country; which was seen in its total lack of coherent and competent governance which subsequently led to them being fired the electorate.?

I must then go on to ask you exactly what has been stopped, cancelled and reviewed by the present administration when there was nothing left in the place of any substance to stop, cancel and review.

It is truly said, ,the manner in which you and your political organization has responded to change and actual progress and have brought most to the realization you either never wanted it  [progress] for the people because you feared that which you did not know – like our early ancestors that feared the sun itself.

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