It is beyond my comprehension that anyone would stoop so low as to doctor a photograph of a prominent politician and not only place it on Facebook but send it to the media.

In turn for a media house to actually publish it gives it a certain amount of legitimacy it doesn’t deserve.

I am referring to the doctored image of Cayman Islands’ Leader of the Opposition, McKeeva Bush that showed him supposedly asleep during the recent budget debate in the Legislative Assembly.

It was a dreadful photograph guaranteed by the perpetrator(s) to instigate ridicule and if it had been directed at me I would have been very angry.

Not surprisingly Bush is outraged. He was very quick to turn the tables and accuse the Progressives (PPM) of instigating it and goes right up to the front door of the Premier, Alden McLaughlin.

I am not suggesting he had anything to do with it nor even knew about it but when his press secretary, a woman I have respected over the years – Tammie Chisholm – is alleged to have sent it to the Cayman Compass, Bush has more than enough ammunition to fire back.

As the Facebook page it was shown on was Christopher Wight, one of the PPM’s staunch supporters, the accusations against the governing party thicken.

Great damage has been done to the PPM’s reputation by this stupid and childish gag and has rebounded hugely on them.

Neither Wight nor Chisholm were in the LA Chamber the day the original photograph was taken but I am betting at least one of them knows who doctored it.

“The taking of this picture and its publication … is a deliberate attack to bring ridicule on me,” Bush said. I agree 100% with him.

Bush believes the culprit is a member of the PPM. It doesn’t need a rocket scientist to assume it wasn’t a supporter of the United Democratic Party!

Bush’s request to have the matter debated in the House was disallowed but the Speaker, Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, warned party leaders to impress upon their membership, as well as civil servants and government staff who are required to be in the LA, not to take images.

Bush, of course, was very unhappy at not being given time to berate the government and the premier.

I hope the culprits behind this stupidity are found and named.

Whilst this media house have not published the offending image we would very much like to give full publicity to the person(s) who photoshopped it.