I must wonder at the thinking behind PPM leader, Alden McLaughlin, at some of his invited “guests” at the PPM rally in Savannah on Monday (7). I am not sure he is doing himself or his party much favour.

It is persons who have earned respect and our trust that I would have thought Alden would have wanted to have been seen rubbing shoulders with. It is not quantity but quality. Yes, some of your guests talk a good tune, but can they really sing one?

Watch your back as closely as your front. I fear you are being used. And, then, when you find out you will be in a right mess.

It is playing into Mr. Bush’s hands if the PPM does, as they threaten, and withdraw from the proceedings of the LA on Wednesday unless the “no confidence” motion is placed at the top of the agenda.

I can understand Alden’s frustration but he must know he can’t win the “no confidence” vote and he will only beat the premier’s game by surprise tactics and not by ones he has already said he will do in advance.

The UDP sends out press releases to ALL the media and not just to a favoured few that the PPM and the Independent member do. They know how to “play the game” to their advantage. A case in point is the latest spat over the procedures governing the Legislative Assembly. Yesterday afternoon we received a very well drafted press release from UDP Education Minister, Rolston Anglin, that gave their side of the story and it seemed very reasonable. It probably was a very one sided version but it is the only version I have received.

The spat is over the way government has decided to introduce the referendum bill – a bill we all know they do not want but will almost likely succeed in wrecking.

I have written many an article and editorial on the “one man one vote” and the reasons it should be adopted whilst other media houses have either “sat on the fence” or only now just come out in favour of it after conducting their own on line vote. The PPM and the Independent member are now canvassing them. We have been and are still being canvassed by the UDP with their opposing views. We, of course, print them. We cannot print anything we are not given. I, personally, complained about this to one of the PPM MLA’s but nothing has happened

It certainly does give some credence to Anglin’s statement that the “Honourable Premier and the Government continue to operate in an open and transparent manner.  Despite this the Opposition still found room to complain and walked out of the Business Committee abruptly….. It was indeed the Opposition who started a petition to cause a People Initiated Referendum and the Government subsequently agreed to hold a referendum and end the political rancor and division they were causing.  Now it would seem as though they are doing everything in their power to not have the Bill passed and the referendum held!”

What a mess.

And finally, the premier has been shouting for months how the opposition is strangling his efforts at getting investment into the country by their opposition to everything and we, the media, who are fuelling this. All the media has in fact done is reported what is news. It is only the bloggers and the chat show callers who have actually fuelled the opposition’s opposition!

However, now the premier and some of his UDP colleagues, with this talk of British Foreign and Commonwealth Officers, including the Governor, of interference and trying to bring the country down, are doing an even better job of stopping any investment. Independence, even if it is whispered, is not the way to make anyone want to leave their money here

Why doesn’t Mr. Bush, if he is as claimed, completely innocent over the Stan Thomas letter affair, give any explanation of why or if he wrote it? His silence is the reason for all this speculation. He owes it to the public, as its premier, to explain.

And why haven’t the RCIPS interviewed him? Even after two years of investigation?

What a mess.