The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

The reported comments of Brent Symonette that the Butler-Sands duo are gaining party support and that a Poll indicates that is totally laughable. Mr Symonette surely knows only delegates, MP’s, Freedom Fighters vote. What Joe Public might say is of no influence to the Convention vote.

Hon Loretta Butler announcement - where were the other five-FNM MP’s and possibly the FNM Senators? Bad start, Ma’am.

Mrs Butler Turner has a lot of flying in the next weeks if she has a chance - she has to visit every single family Island and meet every single delegate to try to persuade them she is better.

One thing you can say about Dr Hubert Minnis has shown he gets organised and knows how to pull the vote out for himself when it matters.

After the convention, one is pleased, if Mr Symonette’s comment is accurate that Mrs Butler Turner will accept the leadership of Dr Minnis if he wins - a start to bring some form of unity to the heavily split party at the moment.

The bottom-line in the process of the FNM and the PLP and the DNA is, I suggest, the same that was seen in England over the EU and what we watch from our neighbour to the north - there is a strong force to get rid of all of the above and have a new face with no past political history.

Time will tell ... remember we throw governments out.

J A RUSSELL

Nassau,

July 2, 2016.