If one is wondering what to write about for an Editorial and you know Cayman’s ex-premier, McKeeva Bush, is going to speak in the Legislative Assembly (LA) with television cameras rolling you have no worries. You will have a mountain of material.

Thank you Mr. Bush you did not let me down, even if some of it I had heard before – in fact many times – the interest was how you are able to insert the same drum roll into something new.

His opening statement last Thursday (29) on the Progressives (PPM) budget, policy and throne speech was how pleased he was to see the minister “maintaining the fiscally prudent approach that I had started when I was in office.”

I did fall off my chair. It seemed the ex-premier actually believed what he said.

Didn’t we have problems with his budgets that were delivered late because of the changes that had to be done to them from the frugal oversight from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office?

Didn’t I continually hear his complaints about this?

Then he was “amused” by Premier Alden McLaughlin’s claimed accomplishments that were mainly started by his administration.

Yes, well, maybe he did start some of them but in the four years he was there did any of substance get finished except for the CEC?

Unless Bush has a newer policy statement than the one I possess of his, I am unable tot find little that has “almost a verbatim copy” of his government’s policy.

I am glad, however, for all our sake he is pleased the PPM are continuing all the things his previous United Democratic Party had started.

I don’t remember anything about a Conservation Bill being a high priority in the Bush policy over his four years. In fact I kept hearing him sneering at conservationists.

One area I can applaud Bush is the creation of the special economic zone – Cayman Enterprise City (CEC) – that really was brilliant and one can give him almost full credit for the Shetty Hospital – Health City Cayman.

Now we know the full facts of the Dart deal that he had kept hidden from not only us but his Cabinet colleagues and the terms of the Chinese Cruise Ship terminal I am befuddled how he can still claim they were good deals.

The difference in his budget and policy speeches to the LA was the three quarters of them taken up in bashing the previous PPM government, the governor and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and only the last quarter that had any policy without giving any actual details.

It is further amazing how he can still keep blaming the previous PPM government for all of Cayman’s ills now after five years. I heard very little blame being thrown at his UDP government from either McLaughlin or the Finance Minister Marco Archer and they had plenty of ammunition.

Premier McLaughlin has never bragged at his relationship with the UK and FCO but Bush has to say with some prid ,”They thought they [UK and FCO] had us conquered but I said no BoBo … you talking to McKeeva Bush. I am nobody’s puppet.”

Of course none of this postering was the cause of the bad relationship Cayman had with the UK. He also failed to mention his cheap comments he threw at our previous governor, Duncan Taylor to “go and sun his buns”.

I also wonder how he would have done on the BBC HARDtalk show and did he really receive EIGHT invitations to ring the Wall Street bell and turned every one down? I suggest that was a clanger!

He then got onto the topic of his “little people”. The ones that he can really count on for voting for him. The present labour situation. Unemployment.

The job loss happened during his four years and is recovering now he is out of office.

The PPM has introduced a policy of Caymanians first. Doesn’t all that that speak volumes?

It is so much easier in opposition but it is without the power. You just have words and you are very, very good at that.

Mr. Bush you didn’t let me down. Not at all.