When comments from the outgoing Premier generate headlines like this - Bermuda leader says island safe for tourists - people will obviously read that as the exact opposite.
Cue the old Nixon "I am not a crook" quote. Come to think of it, our Premier has one of those too: "I'm no coward."
When you've got to make a statement like that it's game over. The target audience for this is presumably whatever few hotel developers and investors are still in the mix and getting ready to cut bait. I still think you don't go out and say this. You act and demonstrate this as true rather than try and press release your way out of a problem.
Dunkley's right. It's the old No Bad News Brown routine again; he keeps a very low profile while problems escalate around him. Brown cuts the ribbons. Ministers deal with the flak.
Now that the outgoing Premier has lost in trying to make the Governor the issue rather than crime and violence, he quickly becomes disinterested. I'm convinced that a fundamental problem in the PLP as a governing party is that they are far more interested in the politics of issues than the policy. The UBP are the complete other extreme.
We're way past that now though. It's policy time. Minister Burch is belatedly getting with the program and Mayor Bloomberg's offer is very helpful I'm sure.
