It’s like listening to a worn out old gramophone record with the needle stuck in the groove when it comes to the verbal diarrhea that emanates from our former premier and now leader of the opposition Hon. McKeeva Bush when it comes to the Auditor General Alastair Swarbrick.

I know most of you won’t know what a gramophone record stuck in a groove sounds like when now even compact discs are almost a thing of the past. However, the noise of a stuck needle in a gramophone record is a nasty scratching repetitive noise that grates on your nerves and the only way to stop it is to turn the thing off and put on a new record.

Another smear attack by Swarbrick on the poor civil servants working in the tourism and finance ministry is his cry AGAIN. Here’s a list of only some of the attacks on the Auditor General Bush came up with in the Legislative Assembly without giving any concrete reasons or evidence behind any of them. It was just like he was claiming the sky is green but don’t go out and look,  just take my word for it:

1. Releasing reports to the public without giving the civil servants a chance to defend themselves.

2. Trying to undermine the public sector.

3. Dismissing the accuracy of the audit!!

4. Staffing problems – (That’s true but Bush was pointing to the lack of quantity of persons not the quality.)

5. Historical failures because of old mistakes being carried over year by year.

6. Sensationalising statements about the accounts.

7. Swarbrick “hell bent” on making civil servants and politicians look bad.

Let me tell you something Mr Leader of the Opposition, Swarbrick’s predecessor, Dan Duguay, also made similar claims that many of the government ministries were not producing adequate accounts for auditing and he immediately told you that privately. That you ignored him, Duguay in desperation, went public. You were able to smear him and tell everyone that Duguay wasn’t doing his job properly without giving any evidence of such a claim. You were instrumental in getting his contract not renewed.

Now you have got yourself another Auditor General who has found the same situation with the government accounts. he can’t audit most of them!

We are in an age of transparency and it is our money that is being used. We have a right to know where it has gone and how much of it used on what projects. If you have a problem with that you are no public servant and you should resign here and now. Please do not stand in the next General Election if you still believe it is OK for Civil Servants not to provide accounts that can be credibly audited by an Auditor General that is his job and what he is paid to do.

It is absolutely shameful you continue these unwarranted attacks on Swarbrick that are quite frankly bizarre.

It is small wonder you carry the banner for independence where if it was to happen you could campaign to be the President and try and oversee all the public accounts yourself. You could even handpick your own Auditor General!

A gramophone record is old and so are your attacks on our Auditor Generals who try to do their job. Gramophone records have mostly gone away but there are still people who listen to them. However, not ones with a stuck needle in the groove.