The PLP Government needs to focus on improving lives of Bermudians

The PLP was quick to attack the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday after the party announced nine outstanding new candidates to run in the upcoming election. As per their tired, old playbook, a PLP spokesperson had nothing but criticism about procedural details and backroom bickering, the exact issues that are turning Bermudians and voters around the world away from the political process.
But based on their apparent concerns about the last night’s press conference, we have a few questions for Premier David Burt and his team:
  • Why are you keeping your platform hidden until February 6? Ours has been out since last September. What are you hiding? Are you still working on it? You are the government, did you not know and election was coming?
  • With the recent resignations from your caucus, do you have a full slate of candidates? Your website shows 30 candidates. It was the PLP who called an election without a full slate of candidates? Didn’t you know that you were going to call an election?
So, we really do need to get this straight, two weeks into a national election that you called, you don’t have a national platform that Bermudians can look at to see your priorities and you don’t have a full slate of candidates. Who’s in charge over there and do that have a clue what they are doing? And you think you should be running the country?
Now, here’s what the OBA thinks the conversation should be focused on:
  • Reducing the cost of living which has skyrocketed under the PLP
  • Improving our public education system so that our children receive a world-class education without having to go to private schools or leave the island
  • Repairing our crumbling infrastructure so that our roads are safe, our garbage can be incinerated safely and our bridges don’t fall into the ocean
  • Ensuring that we have enough police and resources to keep our island safe and to reduce the dangers of gangs, guns and drugs which are a menace to our community
  • Empowering our economy so that some of the 6,000 Bermudians who have fled the country can come back and ensuring that the three quarters of us who are considering leaving, don’t
Every time that you hear the PLP talk about a poor press conference or not seeing a candidate’s bio or anything other than how they are going to make your life better, ask yourself these two simple questions:
“Am I better off now that I was before David Burt?”
“Is David Burt and the PLP focusing on the OBA because they don’t have any fixes for our problems?”

The PLP only has tired, old political attacks, because it is bankrupt of ideas. It has nothing new to fix the unbelievably long list of things that they have screwed up. The OBA is ready to govern. We have the team, and a published platform that will turn things around and make Bermuda the best place in the world to live, work, play go to school and raise a family.

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