Instead of providing valuable insight into how his West Bay District should be divided up when the single member constituencies are introduced, Opposition Leader, McKeeva Bush wanted to inform the Electoral Boundary Commissioners and everyone else at the meeting, THE EARTH IS FLAT.

Well, not exactly, but he might just as well as. And I expect if he had he would have had all his supporters believing it.

No matter what he says, factual or nonsense they gobble it up and Bush is a master of it. If you say the world is flat with as much conviction as he berates the One Man, One Vote and how the Cayman Islands people will “rue the day” it comes into being, he will be believed.

Just in case nobody was aware he (Bush) is opposed to One Man, One Vote!

“It cannot do this country any good, other than to divide us worse than what we are,” he told everyone there at the West Bay meeting last Tuesday (28).

Well he has done an excellent job of trying to divide the country to the Bush idea of policymaking – “don’t believe anyone else but me. I am your God and your Saviour but don’t do as I do, do as I say!”

He wanted everyone to know he was opposed to it but didn’t say why.

It is his power that his District was the only one that had a majority saying they did not want OMOV at the referendum on the subject.

Like a dictator he made sure the scales were tilted so far his way it would have been almost impossible for it to swing the other way. Even so, it very nearly did.

He even changed the rules to make it a government referendum although he still insists it was a people initiated one. Despite howling cries of “FOUL!” he was the referee and it didn’t matter if the instant replay showed otherwise.

Such was his anti OMOV mandate he had his supporters not wishing to discuss where the best place was for the boundaries to be drawn but to recommend other election systems!

They might just as well asked how the commissioners could stop people falling off the edge of this flat earth.

It was a crying shame and another huge taint on the reputation of the ex-premier. The meeting was very important and the commissioners tried very hard to make people understand but it was a losing battle.

Even Bush’s own candidate, Steve McField, on the Electoral Boundary Commission got frustrated.

“There is no point rowing or rucking with me,” he said, “or the other commissioners as their job is to make recommendations for the boundaries. If you don’t want this system you need to complain to the politicians.”

Bush pointed out the inequalities in the system especially regarding North Side and East End regarding the numbers of voters.

Bush, who as you must have gathered spoke for his supporters at length, called the East End and North Side situation “an anomaly” that the commissioners had to address. “You can’t leave it that way!” he shouted. “What are you going to do about it?”

Very clever of him as he knows if the commissioners recommend East End and North Side become one combined electoral district there will be hell upon high water.

It didn’t matter that the commissioners said voter headcount was not the only criteria regarding the shape of constituencies and that geographical size, historical and natural boundaries, future growth and the wishes of the voters in the constituencies would all be considered. No one was listening. Bush had the stage and he knew it.

After all, we should know the earth is really flat. I, Bush, says so.