by Rick Lowe
According to The Nassau Guardian:
"The National General Council (NGC) of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) has formed a committee to examine the report commissioned by high-ranking party members following the 2007 general election after inquires on the report were made by former Exuma Member of Parliament George Smith. There is a certain element of the party that is concerned that the findings and recommendations of the report have been largely ignored, and the leadership of the party has shown no real effort to reform the organization, since its defeat in the last general election. The Nassau Guardian has learned that the NGC approved the request at the party's council meeting last Thursday. The leadership of the party has had the report in hand for nearly two years."
After spending a lifetime in politics it surprises me that Mr. Smith and his fellow "NGC" members think it's peculiar that his party leadership would ignore a report about it's failings.
What failings? They had none! If you listen closely you just might hear a hint of sarcasm in my voice.
Isn't it ironic that party leaders who promised transparency as a government would be charged by their own members of hiding a report they commissioned from them?
To paraphrase Marianne Failthfull's song Why D'Ya Do It?, sometimes our politics make me feel like someone has "tied me to the mast of the ship of fools".
