If you want to know who is demeaning black people in Bermuda, take a look at Markham’s report.

The curent debt is over 150% of Government revenue and unsustainable. Revenue pays off debt, not a false ratio against the false GDP.

According how you see race relations , that is something that we all have to work on , the PLP doesn’t own the monopoly on racist behavior . However I will mention that the ruling elite forerunner of the modern two party system thrived like a cancer on the division of the races , and it was those people who covertly and overtly insisted on carrying it on and into modern day politics .In its haste to somewhat level the economic playing field some former member(s), may have overtly subscribed to that sort of unsavory behavior .

Earlier this week I went to go visit my old friend Hamish , who lives on Scarrington Hill , Paget and I can tell you that after going up there for the last forty plus years I still feel like a foreigner in Bermuda .

And the “PLP respects all people that make up the electorate”? Well, they don’t respect black people; they talk down to them and use them. They don’t respect white people. They don’t respect businesses. They don’t respect people who aren’t, in their words “Real Bermudians”. The only people that get ‘respect’ are the elite PLP insiders.

Clear evidence of debt not being a problem is the overwhelming support from international markets last year, when govt wanted to borrow $500 million and lenders were prepared to lend up to $1.5 billion. Political rhetoric will try to obscure this fact but ultimately the actual lenders tell a different story.

From what I have read; heard it seems deep rooted.

It has been for many years.

Vote wisely. Change will come like a marriage; for better for worse.

A blessed day to all.

A long answer but necessary for you and others to understand why a vote (for many voters) for the PLP is a good idea. Your asking the questions shows that you do not understand the local electorate.

Election results depend on the voters. Swing voters in Bermuda have traditionally been middle class black voters. In the past, many voted UBP based on their (mistaken?) belief that the business class were best able to ‘manage Bermuda’. Coming into 1998, there were sufficient younger voters that had a different mindset and therefore voted PLP and have done so since that time. Many continue to do so because they are comfortable that there has not been sufficinet time for the PLP to ‘undue all the wrong that was the UBP’. As we move forward, both parties will have to address this voter base as they become more aware of thier voting power and how votes make a real difference. They will also be less forgiving of the PLP based on problems caused by the UBP.

For the current election, as we endure these economic challenges, the OBA have made the mistake of criticising the very plans that have helped the voting base that they hope to attract. In doing so, they have reinforced the notion that the OBA can not be voted for, because they will cancel the help that has been provided by the PLP. Therefore a vote for PLP will be a good idea for the majority of the electorate.

This has been a very elementary analysis for 2012 but as a minimum you need to research the changing dynamic of Bermuda’s voter base to start understanding the validity of my comments.

They messed up on every front.

For OBA, I did not intially believe the prediction but the recent revelations about the ‘secret UBP plan’ have increased my believability. My reasoning:

The OBA were publicly formed as a result of losing the Warwick bye election when BDA and UBP realised that neither could win future elections. Therefore we do not have a genuine basis for forming that will withstand an election loss. The recent revelation of the secret plan (despite protestations) indicate a real problem for the OBA leadership since there is no cohesion. The document is clearly a road map for the core UBP leaders and financial supporters and any casual follower of politics will agree that the plan has been followed both closely and effectively.

Cannonier’s display of ‘anger with the media this week’ did not do anything to increase doubt about the report – in fact the reverse is true!! It removed any doubt for several voters.

So where do we stand if the OBA lose??? Canonnier resigns for any number of reasons. A strong leader will emerge and the core leadership will have to decide how to offer genuine support for the leader, without an obvious bias to preserve their own interests.

We still have comments about the document having nothing to do with the OBA. Perhaps not, but is has a whole lot to do with the major supporters that came to OBA from UBP – Dunkley, Gibbons, Smith… do I need to continue?

That’s my point , we haven’t had an effective Opposition in the past from the OBA or for that matter any other party or person .

Unfortunately and contrary to what YOU may believe , the OBA have not made a strong enough case for the swing voter to swing . Despite the perceived , or actual terrible record of the ruling party in some areas .

The segment of society that the OBA is targeting is immune to promises made by any party . They understand that the ‘silver bullet’ to end the malaise Bermuda finds itself in doesn’t exist , and the more the OBA pushes that particular agenda , the more unpalatable they will become .

What a silly thing to say “why doesn’t the PLP stop campaigning altogether .” The PLP respects all the people that make up the electorate of Bermuda and will never take the people for granted . That’s why we believe in including every person on this Island in our campaign to continue governing Bermuda .

The problem is – the PLP have many UBP past ministers, so is the PLP – the new UBP? The funny thing is that the UBP did a far, far better job of running Bermuda than the PLP has!!!!

So keep it up !!! Despite the PLPs dismal record on education – people are smarter than that!