

Some may prefer to call it something else however, this is a democracy and when you have 34 others in the House of Assembly, excluding the Speaker, that let it happen, one could only assume it is because he is the one prepared to work the hardest. This leadership style reminds me of another great song popularised by Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better. That way the children don’t run around wanting this and that you eat what’s on the table, or it’s no food at all - it’s called discipline. Then on the other hand, it just shows as another of the Premier’s proclivities where he likes to micromanage, like when he micromanaged a party branch to develop his own protégé.įor a spell, he had control over three ministries, each of them a key and major cog of government, and has now forwarded legislation to micromanage the Corporation of Hamilton with the rationale that it will have a “closer alliance” with the Government.īasically, the country must become a stew, not a salad. I think, though, he should have let his finance minister conclude the deal on this unless we consider his bank acumen a bit too conservative for the “arts of the deal”. Mr Burt took a gamble on this one he rolled the dice and let’s hope it wins. Put truth on a scaffold the ends justify the means. They call it politics, and it’s good politics when it works.
CARLY SIMON NOBODY DOES IT BETTER FREE
I guess there is no law against leaders not telling the complete truth after all, Donald Trump did it for four years as President of the United States and leader of the free world, and developed a loyal fanbase as a result - a base willing to kill, even if there are more lies told in the process. The larger issue looming, however, is this tendency to be suave and conveniently bend truth. Was there a path between the risk of aiding a potential default and having an opening nonetheless that limited our exposure? I believe somewhere between heaven and earth there was a pathway, but it required a little patience. Like the song says, “We’ve got today babe, who needs tomorrow?" We all hope the country benefits in the long run, not just the developers. OK, so let’s take the high road and say the Premier felt so aggrieved by the state of the economy and unemployment that he took a wise shot and carried this issue on his own shoulders, saying it was better the hotel be open and we all have a meal for a day and then figure out how we get the next meal tomorrow. On one hand, I think much of the public would be happy to know that our largest resort will be reopened I can hardly wait. There is no hiding of the facts, so why the delusion over the reason the guarantee was reintroduced and supported or the disagreement between him and Curtis Dickinson? The e-mail exchange between Gencom and the Premier is also public. To be brutally honest, I don't know how any Bermudian or member of the international community can decipher at what point Mr Burt is to be believed. The highest office in the land is that of the Premier next to that is the Minister of Finance. Now, did we just hear the former Minister of Finance say the Premier lied twice - once about the reason for his resignation and also over the facts and nature of the once-proposed $50 million guarantee? The first person as a former MP to publicly infer that David Burt did not tell the truth was Rolfe Commissiong, and it was over the terms of his resignation from the Senate appointment. Top of the pops: David Burt was not yet born when Carly Simon recorded her iconic hit for the 1977 James Bond classic The Spy Who Loved Me, but Nobody Does It Better seems as though it was made with the Premier and Minister of Finance in mind (Photograph by Blaire Simmons)
