Reports are the Opposition Party (PLP) “is struggling to contain the growing scandal surrounding one of its sitting MP’s amid fears that police may press charges against the politician in the near future”.
If the reports are true, one wonders why the PLP would want to “contain the growing scandal”? If there is doubt about the integrity of the MP’s actions, the PLP should be reporting him to the Police. The party should be bigger than the scandal if they are really concerned about the future of this little nation.
Most of our politicians are lawyers, so they should be able to determine at a glance if one of their members is found wanting, and they should distance themselves from that person. Not close ranks as if nothing has been done.
But, as is the case so often with political scandals, cover ups become the order of the day, leading to the further moral decline of the culture in The Bahamas.
Hey Rick, what is wrong with waiting until this investigation and scenario is finished before jumping to conclusions? As a PLP supporter I would not want to contain any scandal that is true and surely hope the party will distance itself from the sitting MP if he is found guilty of any misconduct. Let the chips fall where they do. I do not think a cover up is possible with the FNM pushing all the buttons and would think it is just as big a scandal on them if they allow a cover up to happen.
Agreed Don’t.
As Dr. Boudreaux of http://www.cafehayek.com reminded today:
“In politics, such histrionics are inevitable. As H.L. Mencken observed, “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.”*
* H.L. Mencken, Minority Report (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 [1956]), p. 222.”