The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

So Dr Hubert Minnis, Leader of the FNM and of the Official Opposition says it’s “lonely at the top”! Top of what? What is wrong with this man? He’s not prime minister yet (I hope he never will be) but he’s already delusional. He should leave the delusional emperor thing to Perry Christie.

Does he not understand that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that his own party has a democratic constitution? Does he not understand that at the very heart of our system is the principle of collegiality?

If he was a collegial leader he could not possibly be “lonely at the top”. Perhaps he needs to look up the word collegiality.

Dr Minnis and Tennyson Wells (no doubt for his own purposes) have secured the allegiance of two PLP outcasts with a history of party-shopping and one with a serious question of conduct still hanging over his head, all for the purpose of outflanking genuine FNM MPs who are fed up with his disastrous lack-lustre leadership.

Puppet-master Wells admits that the FNM was a second or third choice for his recruits. He advised them to form another party along with Gregory Moss, but either Mr. Moss sensibly rejected them or they concluded that another party was not feasible.

So they decided to go to the rescue of the FNM’s embattled Leader and make him their own (along with Mr Wells). Why start something else when you can take over a going concern? Good for them, but where does that leave those people who had such high hopes for the FNM and who have worked so hard to build an alternative to the PLP?

What a pity to see our last hope floundering under another delusional and clearly unqualified leader! Especially when there is a qualified, competent and articulate alternative.

All of these goings-on are happening at a time when there is a feeling of desperation all across the country, when even decent but disappointed PLPs are looking for something they can pin their hopes on to clean up the mess.

Are the people running the FNM deaf? Or blind? In denial? Or just dumb?

FRUSTRATED FNM

Nassau,

November 8, 2015.