The last budget before a general election has to be good. It has to give something to the people. It is no good telling us what the government has done, showing percentages of what they have promised but not completed and what has been promised but not done will be executed if we get elected again.

It is a small word “if” but its meaning is enormous.

The fact that two of the Progressives members have left and another, an independent, has moved over to the opposition benches does not give a good signal for a united party.

The Progressives have taken away the one thing we did have. The one thing we cherished. TWO places we could call on when we were tied up and government bodies and large companies gave us the run around. Even then the government bodies have been masters at delaying and delaying and delaying. The Governor’s Office even did the same thing.

The Progressives have, against all the advice from the very people who know and were or still are at the helm of the Complaints and Information commissions, going ahead and combining the two offices together. Now ONE person will decide and if that isn’t enough this one person will head the new Police Complaints Commission!

As an exercise in public relations and crying, “We are the voice of the people” the Progressives are lining themselves up like the privilege classes were during the French Revolution, waiting for Madame Guillotine.

Another exercise in stupidity was the Progressives supposed fundraiser where invitations were sent out to the people someone in their organization thought were the privilege classes and their supporters. This person forgot you are going to offend a lot of people who did not get this invitation and when it comes to voting we all have one vote. You don’t get a free seat when you buy a table of twelve at the polls.

This is where McKeeva Bush’s party – it has changed its name a few times now and I can’t keep up with it, but The Big Mac Party is exactly that. He invites EVERYONE. In fact despite all the failings of his previous governments and himself he has an impressive Public Relations team. And they are 100% good!! They have to be.

I will be speaking more on the Budget when I have digested it.

And this is an area where the Progressives should have been shouting out and thumping their chests for all their worth. They produce a balanced budget on time with full details and send it to the media at the same time it is being presented!

Not once did we get that from the Big Mac.

On a personal note, I for one do not want to go back to the dark days of the Big Mac where he blamed all of the party’s shortcomings to the previous government and interference from London and disgraceful comments telling the governor to go and “shine his buns”.

I hope if any of the hierarchy of the Progressive Party read this please take note and treat it for what it is worth. I do not attend many of the media invites but I do go around and listen to EVERYONE. And what I say are my feelings and I am not persuaded even if I support someone and like someone and respect someone, if I believe it is wrong and harmful, I will say it out loud as long as I live.

Is the Budget good enough to re-elect the Progressives? It should be but I have grave doubts. However, a week is a year in Politics.