Actually it is no lady. In this instance it is Cayman Islands’ Leader of the Opposition Hon. McKeeva Bush.

First I heard our ex-premier protesting on CITN/Cayman27 earlier this week that the Auditor General’s report on the misuse of public funds when he was premier was another successful attempt to make hard working politicians like him look bad and to denigrate civil servants.

He justified his spending (70% of the $8.6M spent on travel from 2009-2012 came from his department and the one headed up by then Deputy Premier Hon. Julianna O’Connor Connolly) saying, “What was I going to do? Walk to those meetings or have transport?” He accused the Auditor General, Alastair Swarbrick, of being a “hit man”. This description of the Aud. Gen. Bush has used before.

In a longer interview on the Rooster101 early morning talk show he went even further with his protests.

He claimed the Report was a “distraction” by the Governor’s office over the Tempura “fiasco”. It was a deliberate attempt to draw attention away from those issues and try him in the court of public opinion, he said.

The auditor’s report has “more holes than a sieve”, he said without giving any support where all the holes were.

His protests against the report included that he had to “hustle” on behalf of the country, when he went overseas he had 14 entities he was responsible for, he was never off duty when he used limousines because he was the premier 24 hours a day, no spending of his was lavish, he denied there was no paper trail, he often used his own money, didn’t cash his cheques for his per diem allowance and the government owed him money! He said the paper trail was easy to find as the credit card slips were with the bank.

He again used the expression “hit man” in describing Swarbrick claiming previous governor Duncan Taylor employed him in that capacity.

Bush then attacked Taylor claiming the governor had used public cash to support his grown up son, who lived at Government House, plus all the lavish events put on by the governor’s office.

Incredibly, too he accused the Auditor General of losing the country millions when Swarbrick had stopped him negotiating a loan for the public sector. He was talking about the loan being negotiated through Cohen and Co. There is a paper trail there and in a glass house you shouldn’t throw stones.

Finally Bush protested that Swarbrick was part of the new colonial regime expressly placed there to target him personally.

It all made for a very interesting listen first thing in the morning but methinks there was too much protesting.