The old has been T. Wells says this and that. He is another of the old die hard Whitfield followers.

These are the ones who could only win an election with Ingraham.

They are back in control with their old "never win" ideas.

Minnis resign and let the rest of us move on to develop a real opposition.

Why is there "seeking" written in this caption??????? .......... It should be "already has" ...... LBT is a registered undertaker ............ she knows where to buy the best quality coffin(for herself) because she is politically "dead" in Long Island ................ Adios LBT .................. Hail Adrian Gibson!!!!!!!!!!!

"On the heels of this stunning move, FNM Chairman Sidney Collie confirmed yesterday that the party received a petition from voters in Long Island who say they do not want Mrs Butler-Turner to represent them in 2017. **Mr Collie would not say how many signatories** were on the petition, but he said it, along with the opinions of constituents, would play into whatever decision the Executive Committee makes." This is utter BS. The same lack of transparency that cause you to be in this position in the first place- FNM will NEVER learn. Six people? Twenty people? Who are these people? But more than that THIS is the response to your political beat down? Petty, dumb and painfully obvious. LBT probably knew what was coming from those old heads. Watch what happens...

Greentea, please get on Bahamasair or Southern Air and come to Long Island and see and hear that for yourself .............. Adios LBT!!!!!!!!

You saw the petition? How many signatures were on there?

Most Bahamians fail to understand that a UK styled Westminster parliamentary system of government has been ill-suited for an independent Bahamas since July 10, 1973. Pindling quickly realized that it was all too easy for the leader of a political party to gain absolute control over the party by fully stacking the party's leadership apparatus with small minded loyal supporters and cronies who would always put their party leader above the well being of the Bahamas and its people. Our political parties do not have a true democratic purging mechanism for the party leader who invariably successfully hijacks the entire leadership apparatus of the party in order to cement his/her position as party leader with unquestionable and unlimited authority to remain in that de facto dictator role.

Hubbigity, Crooked Christie and the Dimwitted Doc are all from Pindling's school of thinking when it comes to gaining and retaining absolute control over the leadership apparatus of their political party, thereby capitalizing on one of the key weaknesses within our ill-suited system of government. Bahamians need to wake up to the fact that the political parties will always serve the hijacker's interests in obtaining unchecked power, with no built-in democratic mechanism for booting the hijacker when necessary for the good of the party and the Bahamian people. This explains why Pindling was not toppled by the findings of the 1980's Commission of Inquiry into his drug smuggler dealings, why Crooked Christie has refused to step down after two national referendums in which the Bahamian people have expressed a resounding vote of no confidence in him, and why the Dimwitted Doc is able to hold on to his leadership of the FNM party.

Comrades I must confess be setback by the way Minnis and the Red Party's Supreme Council have thus far taken the wait-and-see reaction to the Coup de théâtre.
I would have thought that since Loretta has not set her foot on Long Island - that since Loretta won't go to her constituents, the party will bring her Long island constituents to the People's Honourable House of Assembly? For tis only Long Islanders who can wipe that damn smile off her face by sending her back where she long had belonged - far away, off of their beloved Long Island.

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Tal ............ Long Islanders are not blind FNM supporters ......... they are quite savvy when it comes to politics ........... after all, we gave The Bahamas the PLP as well .......... until Pindling hi-jacked it and the rest is history

LBT has done more to solidify the opposition in 5 days than Minnis did in 4 years.

A smart person would sit back and wait a month or so to see what can be achieved.

This childish knee jerk reaction will only hurt the Country.

Does anyone know how old Dillis Smith is?

See my comment above ............ this not a knee-jerk reaction to LBT ....... She was Hubert Ingraham's "driftwood candidate" from Day 1 ......... Do not sit up in Nassau trying to make decisions for those who have to live with Nassau's stupid decisions everyday

Agreed Economist, I am certain they know what will happen to them going forward, so its my guess they have a plan. I almost seem all going to DNA, no matter what McCartney says

Comrades! DNA Leader Bran is the guest coming up in few seconds live-on the Guardian's The Revolution Talk Show. Every red shirt, needs tune-in live o hear for yourselves exactly what the green party's leader and your Loretta has planned for your red party. Will be good be reminded directly from mouth man himself, all about his runaway ego.

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Sheeprunner12, I am not a Nassuvian myself so understand but, I would still wait and see.

It may be that a change of seats for the candidates can be negotiated..

Dillis Smith seems to have her own personal agenda, to get her vengeance, so to speak.

The old time FNM's may not like what LBT has done but the FNM had no chance with Minnis. The only thing he was going to do was drag everyone down.

The FNM really needs to have a majority of under 45 counsel members. At the moment the FNM is like its leaders, old and dying.

We have a two-party system that is entrenched ........ the DNA was a spoiler in 2012 .......... We do not need a spoiler in 2017 (nuff said)

More and more countries are developing multi party systems. I respectfully disagree that we have a two party system.
The last election a third party polled a large number of votes and may even win a seat this time around.
In the 1970's or early 80's we had three parties.

The fact that Wells speaks for Minnis, tells me that Minnis has got to go!

Comrades! STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Only been listening Bran few minutes and he's done tossed 4 grenades under red shirts big red tent and I don't think new "supreme leader" hasn't even started run out grenades. Now you know where the Chinese grenades ended-up.
DNA Leader Bran is the guest now "live"-on the Guardian's The Revolution Talk Show. Every red shirt, needs tune-in live to hear for yourselves exactly what the green party's leader and your Loretta has planned for your red party. Will be good be reminded as Minnis sure as hell was, directly from mouth man himself, all about his runaway ego.

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It’s time to get rid of the Westminster system and become a republic.

Comrade hnhanna, I am not ready go there with you but I need convincing that a Republic country will change much, if anything. The Queen is the least we problems.

Tal has a point .......... the out islands have to be freed of Nassau control (federalism) and the leader of the country must be elected by the citizens (republic) ........ but if we want to keep the same glorified dictatorship constitution (leadership powers) we have now, those changes alone will not work.

Comrade SheepRunner12, can you imagine if we had even just 15 years ago signed a Hawksbill type deal with say Abaco, that would have allowed the industries thinking Abacoians to have established their own Marsh Harbour Port Authority, the results would been the type of growth in Abacio that has never been realized for Freeport.
Imagine the degree of the growth that would be underway across the Abaco islands, had only the two former law partners Perry and Hubert, granted Abaco the same hundreds millions dollars in tax avoidance dollars schemes granted to Freeport in just the last months?

Hubert allowed the Chinese to build a port in North Abaco with no plan to build its economy ............. how foolish is that??????

But Long Island cannot get ONE international airport?????? Come on!!!!!!

Both Long Island and Abaco have such growth potential. If they don't curtail crime in the Nation's capital - it will become a third world little island among chain 700 islands.

We all know the PLP plan (Rob the Country Bone-dry).......... We know the DNA plan (Bran or nuttin) ............ What is the Sterling Seven's Plan???? ............ We need to know, as most of them seem to have reached their maximum political shelf life (no re-nominations)

This is the enigma that surrounds why Bahamians are baffled by this FNM coup ......... are they going to re-invent their political images and mount a comeback under a new name???

We may know this when the Parliament re-opens in January 2017 (after We March 2.0)

Jokes, the lot of it. Minnis will be the next PM and the Bahamas will be the better for it.

Banker, how do you come to that conclusion?
Perry has done nothing as Prime Minister and Minnis has done nothing as Leader of the Opposition,
PLP=FNM=PLP

Wow! All it took was a Senate seat to get Bran to turn over the DNA to LBT thereby abandoning and betraying all longtime supporters of that political party. Next will come a most interesting re-shuffling of the DNA's leadership apparatus along with changes to its slate of candidates for the next general election. It seems Bran was always about Bran and Bran alone as many of us suspected, explaining why his party was never able to secure a seat in the HOA. The implosion of the FNM now seems to have led to the implosion of the DNA, leaving only the PLP standing. Crooked Christie's enrichment of the Dimwitted Doc's pocketbook has bought Christie much more than he (or his Red China friends) could have ever expected or dreamed. Yes, it certainly looks like Red China has decided and made it possible (by dishing out the cash) for Crooked Christie to have another five-year term. And to think the Obama-led U.S. government is worried about the Russians having interfered with the recent U.S. elections! What a joke!!