If you were in the audience at the Bush Show or watching it, as I was last night, on local television, you should have been saddened.

At the Sir John Cumber School hall in Bush Country of West Bay, where we should only have been listening to the Government’s proposals for implementing his heinous Community Enhancement Fee/income tax on the Cayman Islands’ expatriate workforce, we were also subjected to even more rhetoric on the Governor and other senior government officials.  He even told HE Governor Duncan Taylor “to go and sun his buns”.  My only word to describe this totally unnecessary comment is DISGUSTING!!  Even that doesn’t describe my feelings when I heard what he said. That it got a cheap laugh and applause from his “following” shows just how he has led his country to show disrespect and rudeness in a way that is shameful to the outside world watching, listening and reading.  This is what the world will now see as the “Caymanian Way.”  A rude, disgusting, ill mannered, and disrespectful community – that’s how we appear now.

Unforgivable, Mr. Bush.  For much less descriptive ‘attacks’ on himself, he has sued. He can dish it out but woe betides anyone else who retaliates.  And his supporters salute him for it. Doesn’t anyone in his cabinet and UDP party have any trace of decency and manners anymore to bring him to heel?  Is everyone there frightened of him?

If attacking the Governor wasn’t bad enough, he once again described the Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, as his “hit-man”!

Bush complained there had been “many types of governors in Cayman’s history, from ineffectual ones to those that spent millions on investigations. Not until now have we had one so disposed to interfere with local affairs,” and “this one has done nothing to help.”

All of our woes, from the stopping of the sewerage project to the non divesting of the Water Authority was due to the Governor and his “hit-man” who would “frighten the civil servants” off who had been trying to implement them and would have produced millions of dollars into the country’s coffers.

He felt the Governor should advise him every time he makes an appearance on local television and the Auditor General should be stopped from running to the papers saying something was “radically wrong”.  Maybe you don’t get it Mr. Bush, there was and still is something radically wrong and you should be taking steps to put these things right. Instead you “reward” these incompetent departments and civil servants with an attack on the person whose job it is to see we are getting value for money!

In another outburst against the Governor and the Auditor General he said, “These people are hell bent on destroying this country … that is my opinion.  If I’m put in jail, I don’t care.  It is time for them to stop interfering.”

On the point of reducing the civil service wage burden the premier said he had cut spending in the civil service as much as he could but it was down to the Governor and Deputy Governor to cut pay and jobs as he insisted he could not do it. However, he said if the Governor made a recommendation “to the elected ministers, then I can be the judge, as Minister of Finance, on what I will or will not submit to the cabinet, as reduction in the emolument of the civil servants.  That is as far as I can go.”

That is strange as the RCIPS also comes directly under the Governor yet he is planning cuts on the police benefits including the axing of the police helicopter.  I do not understand if he can make cuts in other departments that government doesn’t directly control (and under the control of the Governor and Deputy Governor), how can he not do the same to the civil service?  Please explain that Mr. Bush.

In a two hour speech that was supposed to be informative, it was largely taken up with a shouting exercise blaming everyone else but himself and his government.

At almost four hours long the meeting was finally over.

Yes, it is a very sad day for all of us living here.  I am ashamed.  So should you be.