It seems the Chairman has suddenly discovered a most tragic affliction: selective outrage. One minute he’s cruising to the airport, the next he’s clutching his pearls over FNM billboards like they’ve committed some unprecedented crime against humanity. Apparently, in his world, political messaging only becomes “nasty” when someone else does it better.

His lament reads less like a statesman’s concern and more like a man shocked—shocked!—to find mudslinging happening in a game his own team practically invented. After all, this is the same PLP playbook that gave us years of relentless attacks in opposition, followed by an encore performance while in government. But now, suddenly, the tone is too harsh? The irony could power the entire national grid.

And let’s not pretend this is about “desperation.” If the FNM is leaning into negative campaigning, then by the Chairman’s own standard, they’re simply excelling at a craft the PLP has spent years perfecting. The only difference now is that the criticisms hitting the New Day PLP are landing a little too close to home—less fiction, more uncomfortable fact.

The Chairman’s call for a “vigorous and punchy defense” is particularly amusing. Translation: when they attack, it’s righteous; when others respond, it’s reckless. One might even admire the consistency—if not for the complete lack of self-awareness.

Take Abaco, for example. The recent rally wasn’t so much a presentation of achievements as it was a nostalgic tour of alleged FNM failures—many of which were generously seasoned with exaggeration, if not outright fiction. It worked once, and now the hope is lightning will strike twice, even as the island waits for tangible progress that never quite seems to arrive.

And then we arrive at the pièce de résistance: the claim of transparency. According to the Chairman, everything is “in plain sight.” Indeed—so plain, in fact, that the numbers themselves appear to be staging a quiet protest. If transparency were truly the hallmark of this administration, then the leadership at Beaches and Parks would be subjected to the same forensic-level scrutiny applied to others. Funny how accountability always seems to be a one-way street.

In the end, the Chairman crying foul over “nasty campaigning” feels less like a genuine concern and more like a seasoned boxer complaining about punches mid-fight—after years of throwing the first and hardest blows.

If nothing else, it’s a reminder: in politics, the loudest cries of victimhood often come from those most fluent in the art of attack.

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

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