These are lost and have no idea who or what they are. . .except THEY JUST WANT TO STAY IN THE HOUSE!

You mean Minnis aye?

Well Minnis will push anyone aside to control the party. They are right to resign.

Edison Key amuses me. He was never elected until he joined the FNM. At 78 he has nothing to lose. I think he is just having fun.

These times are the best opportunity to oust both plp and fnm, These folks have placed their bets.

Mark my words, these 7 are going nowhere.
But pawns in a game of power, of no intended benefit to anyone but themselves.

What do the 7 have to lose? With the exception of Butler-Turner all have been declined for nominations.

Dr. Minnis is the real snake and only those who work closely with him get to feel the bite. His followers remain deluded.

Let them remain part of the party since only one of them is ratified a candidate in the person of Loretta. Minnis is still leader of the party so he still call the shots, run an independent against Loretta, win the seat and then join the FNM. (Sounds and looks familiar.) That would be more devastating to her than having her resign from the party. One thing for sure, she can't win in Montague, St Annes and especially Long Island. Dr. Minnis should have ratified Andre to run in Long Island in thew first place when she was complaining about Rollins and Minnis undermining her. He would have a better chance with that. Now the two hugging up like nothing happened. Politics do make some strange bedfellows.

The only hope for the country is that this revolt is successful and LBT unlike Dr. Minnis, can contain her ego sufficiently to make a deal with Bran. If that happens the PLP is toast. For that reason, I think the celebrating in that quarter may prove to be a bit premature.

What an absolute farce! The FNM is determined to destroy the last remnants of its former self. What a tragedy for the party and for the country at a time when Bahamians desperately need an alternative to the corrupt Christie led, Chinese sponsored PLP. I believe the FNM under Hubert Minnis is a "busted flush". The brand image has gone with the Party scarcely resembling the FNM of Hubert Ingraham. As it stands the FNM is frankly unelectable and strong candidates like Lloyd, D'Aguilar and Dames must be wondering about their reputations by association with this train wreck of a party. In any first world democracy a party leader facing such lack of confidence and outright rebellion would do the honourable thing and resign for the greater good of the party and the country. Why does Hubert Minnis stubbornly cling to his post against a wave of discontent? Why does he not see that he can best serve the Bahamas by stepping aside and allowing someone with the necessary skill set to unite the fragments of this broken organisation?

Someone like who?

Comrades! Not surprisingly so, nothing but silence from the media savvy recently recruited red candidates "Wash Em, Dry Em, Press Em" Dionisio D'Aguilar and the "Grammatical Correct" Talk Show Host Jeffery Lloyd.
Here listening to former red senator Carl Bethel live on the Revolution talk show .....what a specialists in passing the buck for not calling what happened yesterday for exactly what it was...a political Coup against the red party. Does this man not posses the balls to step up to call out the Coup members out for what they are. I guess Carl foresees a red party under two Captains going into the 2017 General. To listen to Carl, you'd think the red party just stumbled up in the House yesterday. But, guess what he was clear on...that he needed to carve out a constituency to run-in come the 2017 General...is he saying it matters not if its Loretta or Minnis who signs his nomination papers?

Thank you FNM for guaranteeing the PLP another 5 years to finish off the country.

Minnis has been put out to pasture by the FNM MPs .............. now it is time for the PLPs to do the same with Perry ................ We need a Bahamas Spring in 2017

absolutely

Minnis, if he stays, is going to hand the country back to the PLP, that is a certain.

If the 7 (some of them giving up there right to run) can come to some agreement with the DNA or some new group then we may not have to give the country back to the PLP.

100% agree! this is the most asinine move I have ever seen! I would bet that anyone in the Caribbean has ever seen. Jamaal Rolle needs to resurface that piece with Perry Christie saying "* guh fix Bahamar if I have to do it myself*" and there he is on the end of the branch, sawing it off from the tree, LOL LOL LOL.How many hapless MPs can fit on the end of that branch? 7.

The FNM convention was a farce just like the DNA and the upcoming PLP convention ..... how can a handful of manipulated delegates speak for the 60-70,000 party supporters?????? ....... We need what happens in the USA .......... let each constituency VOTE for their party leader every 3 years .........then that person can have a mandate to lead a political party.

This FNM parliamentary coup speaks volumes of the chasm between elected MPs and a dysfunctional convention system in our mutant Westminster system

Please, not like the U.S.A. Our system WOULD work if we had some strong, ETHICAL politicians who actually cared about our country and not about prestige and lining their pockets.

The USA have shortcomings but a popularly elected party leader is not one of them .......... if the USA was like The Bahamas, Jeb Bush would have been the Republican candidate ............ we have a "royal family" mentality

...the dumb, dumber and dumbest gang,

After the March Minnis said he was humbled or words to that effect. He knows that he doe not have what it takes to win an election, and he knows he is not a leader. The trouble is he just isn't humbled enough to say let me get out of the way so we can win the election. Him and Bran are identical from an ego point of view.

lol if the other 6 have nothing to lose maybe Loretta is the one being played in all this, peer pressure and empty promises from the others :)

The job is only half done. The entire leadership apparatus of the FNM party needs to be dismantled otherwise it will remain a failed party hijacked by the very deceitful, arrogant and incompetent Minnis. If this cannot be achieved in relatively short order, Bahamian voters should simply consider the FNM party to be a politically defunct organization of the past, with no future political purpose whatsoever for our country....much like the PLP will be after the next general election.

Collie, the FNM party chairman, and every single FNM council member who still supports him and/or Minnis, must be thrown overboard at the earliest possible time. Time should not be wasted doing this though, and Collie and Minnis will be doing everything possible to run down the clock in the run up to the next general election. If need be a new party should be formed in short order to be led by someone young, energetic, intelligent, sensible, pragmatic, charismatic and politically astute with patriotic public service ideals; someone who has no prior political baggage, is not beholden to special or foreign interests of any kind, and who cannot be bought by the likes of Sir Snake, Craig Flowers, Crooked Christie's Red China friends and others like them. The search should be on for such a leader of the Bahamian people because he or she does indeed exist among us today, and is our only hope for a better Bahamas tomorrow. Sadly, LBT is most assuredly not that person.

Look at Key. LOL. He's like "*what da hell we doin*?". LOL

This most undemocratic attempt to subvert the Will of the People is an afront to democracy and is akin to a Coup d'état, the Culprits of which should be regarded as Traitors to the Nation and have their Citizneships revoked. Thankfully we do not have a Military, as we would otherwise be in a state of Civil War thanks to such Triators.

FRED!!!!!

This is amusing and terrifying at the same time.
I want an alternative but I can't cast my ballot with any of these lot. I have no candidates or party that represents my interests or what I consider the best for this country. The DNA have poor policies, from what Bran revealed already, the FNM is a Dodo Bird, the sexy 7 have no party, the People's movement is a hodgy podgy grouping with individuals I share no common ground in policy with, and the PLP never gave a crap about anyone anyway.

I have no-one I support, no party.... and lots of Bahamians feel the same which is why the voter registry is so low. This is like going to the food store where all the food is rotten and the milk has started to turn.

For me to vote I'm simply picking who is the lesser of all evils.

You will find fault until you vote for the PLP ......... and that is the worst option

The FNM party is no more and the root cause of its demise was Hubiggity's piss poor sore loser conduct in response to the thrashing he received from Christie in the last general election. Hubiggity's angst and utter disgust at the conclusion of the 2012 general election resulted in shameful post-election bahaviour on his part. Hubiggity's disgraceful walkaway from the FNM party back then created a power vacuum easily filled by a blithering incompetent corrupt imbecile with zero charisma and absolutely no ability to think quickly while standing on his feet to address or debate anything. We all know Minnis was never possessed of the qualities necessary to be or become a political leader; he could never overcome his many obvious limitations. Hubiggity knew all of this when he observed Minnis maneuvering to fill the leadership role in the opposition and the FNM party shortly after the last general election. But, like a spiteful child, Hubiggity did nothing to prevent the disaster he undoubtedly knew would be coming the FNM's way under the failed leadership of Minnis.