The one thing that I can agree with, that was oft repeated in CITN-Cayman27’s “The Panel” programme on Tuesday (1), was why it has taken two years of police investigations into a letter supposedly sent by Mr. Bush to Texan developer Stan Thomas back in 2004 asking for $350,000 to settle a matter relating to a land deal and zoning? And the bigger question, as was rammed home repeatedly, by both Bush and Minister, Ralston Anglin, who was also on the programme, why hasn’t the premier been even questioned?

Of course this question has been raised repeatedly but there has not been a satisfactory reply – in fact no reply at all.

This gives a very credible reason for Mr. Bush not to resign and his UDP colleagues to gather around him and show their support.

The wonderful ‘smoke-screen’ of the British Government’s faceless civil servants out to destroy our country was also repeated ad nauseum. If you get rid of Mr. Bush, the country apparently collapses. And if you get rid of one premier, you can get rid of another and another as it sets up a precedent.

I suppose some people, apparently quite a few in West Bay, will believe this nonsense. The premier is a master at keep bashing some “evil phantom” from abroad – some foreigner (especially if he’s British) that is trying to destabilise our country for their own ends.

He also managed to bring in the subject of “taxation”.

“I have always stood in the way of the Foreign office on a lot of matters much more than the opposition would ever dare do, and if it was left to the opposition, we would have had income tax and property tax and every other tax you can think about,” he claimed.

Now that was a master stroke. The word “taxation” is the foulest word in the Caymanian vocabulary and the huge majority of us shudder at it ever being introduced.

I can now look upon the premier as a modern day Robin Hood fighting the evil King John, although, of course, none of that was true. And …….

It was a huge pity there was no one on “The Panel” programme who could have shown as much passion as the two UDP Cabinet members with an opposing view. To have CITN’s reporter Ben Meade as the “Devil’s Advocate” was of no use. The programme ended up being another free propaganda exercise for the government.

What was interesting was when, near the end of the programme, and the cruise ship terminal was raised, when the name of previous UDP cruise terminal negotiator, MLA Cline Glidden was mentioned, there was an audible hush and then Ellio Solomon’s name was very quickly and emphatically raised. For some reason Mr. Glidden is not the flavour of the month(s). I can’t think why.

Maybe we will know the reason for his replacement in perhaps, two years…?