Vexed Bermoothes

Here’s a job ad that was posted in Canada and the UK on November 6. It has not been advertised locally yet. And the successful applicant will start work in Bermuda by December 1. The Department of Immigration has, apparently, really improved turnaround.  Well, maybe not for you.

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So how do Bermudians feel about the PLP’s use of American-style “push polls” as an election smear tactic? Can anyone else smell the desperation? Or the guilty conscience? After all, it was just a few weeks ago that PLP candidate George Scott warned the opposition not to adopt push polling – when there is no [...]

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The expected dirty tricks have started, with the Dr. Brown’s PLP appearing to commence the use of American “push polling” disinformation tactics over the past few days. Push polling, for those of you with morals, is a smear technique where a poll is used to spread false negative claims about one’s opponent. Large numbers of [...]

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In 1998, the PLP rode into town on a wave of goodwill. That goodwill has been squandered on ego, self-gratification, mismanagement, and racial prejudice. An insider clique quickly became the “new establishment” leaving the traditional PLP working class core feeling angry and abandoned. They’ve even chased away the many swing voters who wanted to join [...]

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Sir John fired his second barrel with the Bermuda Sun today. I agree with him wholeheartedly. The world is watching to see what Bermuda will do in this election. It’s not about who gets the GP1 vanity plates next, it’s about whether Bermudians will tolerate an unaccountable governing clique who squander the trust, reputation, and [...]

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Dr. Brown loves to scare voters and little children with stern warnings about going back to the plantation and the bogeyman of the Forty Thieves. It says a lot about the erosion of the PLP’s political capital that the best finale they can come up with for their hot new ads is a vignette of [...]

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Sir John Swan weighs in, and again.  Attuned to both the man on the street and Bermuda’s business mainstay, he’s right on target. It’s not just the neglect that’s a problem, it’s the hostility. How come everyone can see this except our isolated and blinkered PLP leaders? “We are sending out a message that we [...]

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The Royal Gazette published an excellent opinion by Christian Dunleavy today that breaks through many of the sterotypes that the PLP tries to spin about the UBP as well as critics of their performance.  I encourage you to read it. For me and others of my era, the PLP are the status quo. They don’t [...]

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