Vexed Bermoothes

As time goes by, more and more distrust and frustration builds up within the unions and civil service against the PLP leadership.

It’s not just the disillusion over promises made … and broken.  It’s also the the constant allegations of meddling, shortcuts, and bullying. The media reports are normally angrily denied – but this is Bermuda, most of us have relatives on the inside  – and somehow, when the facts come out, the situation is quite clear.  Despite the secretiveness of the Bermuda Government, and the paranoid pack mentality that surrounds much of Bermuda political life, the media normally gets it right.

I hear from time to time from ex-civil servants who say things like “we tried to tell about all of this – but it seems so many of our seniors were involved in the whole tangled web that our warnings got nowhere”.

Or “the shuffling and bullying in the civil service is because we knew all about this nonsense – almost like a government Ponzi scheme.  Did they hope that with us gone or silenced, none of it would surface?  Unlike the ponzi schemes, where the bad guys go to jail, these guys just thumb their nose at any critics and get away with it.  It’s so sad.”

Government ponzi scheme.  Ouch.

A lot of people are watching the LeYoni Junos case with interest … and hope.