Branville McCartney appears to be so high on himself that he does not see the doors and windows all closing in around him/

Considering that his expressed priority policy agenda for our country’s future ostensibly hinges on the thin line of substance abuse, I am understandably amused at the comments attributed to him in today’s newspapers concerning my political posture and opinion. I will again attempt to rehabilitate him from his “high” and knock him back into reality.

There is a popular commercial playing now on local television which warns of the pitfalls of arranged, improper and dubious marriages very much like the incestuous and politically promiscuous same-sex union that is now being proposed between the FNM and the DNA.

The PLP finds this latest proposition in the local political firmament worthy of commentary because given the proclivity ofDr. Hubert Minnis to put his foot in his mouth and McCartney’s presumption of the divinely anointed political Barabbas of The Bahamas,we in the PLP are frightened for the deepening of our democracy.

With powerful parliamentary personalities in the FNM already dismissing the sordid and salacious conjugal political marriage of the FNM to the DNA, one wonders if they can even get through a decent courtship or arrive at a prenuptial agreement that both sides will not spend an entire general election campaign tearing apart.

McCartney is already displaying some of the recognizable symptoms of his priority political agenda and that is the one of memory loss. McCartney needs to be reminded that a huge percentage of Bahamians who nominated and ran as DNA candidates in the 2012 general election have now abandoned the DNA and McCartney. Rodney Moncur left and recently competed for office in the FNM. Now Mark Humes who was the DNA National Chairman has left and announced he has joined the FNM. Most former DNA candidates want nothing to do with McCartney who in the mean time is preparing “to go in unto” Dr. Minnis and the FNM in an arranged marriage.

McCartney should do the honest and honourable thing and admit that he just wants to get himself an FNM nomination and leave Chris Mortimer, Ethric Bowe and Andrew Wilson saddled with the gas bill for their huge green buses. This must not sit well with his other former political buddy Renward Wells who can now see the FNM nomination in Bamboo Town slipping away from him while Mark Humes pursues the FNM nomination in Fort Charlotte over Andre Rollins.

BRANVILLE, BE A MAN, HUMBLE YOURSELF,ENTER THROUGH THE FNM’s FRONT DOOR AND BEG DR. MINNIS FOR A NOMINATION (PREFERABLY ON YOUR KNEES) AND STOP TRYING TO BE CLEVER BY HALF BY HUSTLING YOUR WAY BACK INTO THE FNM THROUGH THE BACK DOOR WHILE PUBLICLY TELLING DR. MINNIS THAT YOU ARE THE SAVIOR OF THAT ORGANIZATION. YOUR PUBLIC ANTICS AMOUNT TO JUVENILE POLITICAL THEATER AT BEST!

Alas, irony will prove that just as McCartney vigorously promotes his support for substance abuse, he will soon realize that the proverbial ‘grass’ is not greener on the other side (pardon the pun Bran). He has been checkmated and outwitted by Dr. Minnis.

In short, McCartney brings nothing to the political bedroom of this planned debauchery - this arranged FNM/DNA political marriage.

One last bit of unsolicited advice to McCartney fromye old ‘political dinosaur’ Bradley Roberts who only spent 25 consecutive years in Parliament, retired on his own terms and engineered 2 general election victories as PLP national chairman:

“Sit small and shut up in hopes that Minnis does not put more ”Bamboo Town” on you and you still don’t get an FNM nomination. Not another squeak from you Mr. Branville McCartney. There is still yet a slim, slim, very slim chancethat you may get to wear the wedding dress you are publicly yearning for…albeit RED.”