Better still. . .lets get rid of every dang rules and regulations that don't fit your liking. . .then lets put in some that you like. . .JUST TO KEEP YOU SHUT UP!

You embarrassing yourself "Licks" 2. Kissin' ahs makes a dumb ahs.

Our reasoning skills are open to all. . .just because I don't follow your silly and fraudulent way of political dialogue that means I kiss backsides?

The most you can say about me is that I AM FNM and support Doc!! So if I do. . .what's that to you? We draw swords with our reasoning skills. . .

It's not right then to give any MP a parlimentary job or any position where they have to be beholding to the government's stance and also to the people they represents, I think that's clearly a conflict of interest, how is a person to serve two masters the government and the people and be right, at the end of the day the peoples voice are not considered or respected .

Both Carl Bethel and Minnis alike are being about as disingenuous as they come in their self-serving interpretation of the rules under the Westminster parliamentary system of government. They wrongfully would have us believe the system does not allow for the exercise of discretion; hence we now hear, against the backdrop of the loud public backlash, their back-peddling lip-service talk about being open to reconciliation. Truth be told, Minnis's insatiable desire for the powers of a dictatorship blinded his ability to exercise sound discretion and common sense in the interest of the constituents represented by the four MPs he has (and no doubt will continue to) severely victimize.

Of course discretion could have been exercised. Those termination letters were probably printed and signed in advance of the vote!

For his sake, I hope our esteemed PM was honest about "rather losing an election". Trouble is, as with the VAT, perhaps losing to the only opposition that currently exists may not be an option the MAJORITY of the Free National Movement would have wanted. The PM may have lost sight of the forest.

I GUESS IF YOU CAN TELL THEM ABOUT THEIR "SELF-SERVING" INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE? So why not save us the trouble of miss-interpretation again. . .WHY YOU DON'T JUST TELL US WHAT IT SAYS PLEASE!

Everything there ever was or is to know about the Westminster parliamentary system of government is available online for reading by anyone.....including you. Forgive me, but I have so many more important things to do than try educate someone like yourself.

Then I guess you are just being disingenuous and political. . .see there. . .you DNA are now the official opposition party come next election. . .PLP will never come back again. . .but yinna still got dumb nonsense coming out of yall camp like this. . .childish political clap trap. . .dishonest political clap trap. It is ya job to "educate" persons like me if yinna want to win an election. . .persons like me will continue to make yinna look like fools and deaf. . .childish and naive political old shoe!!

Ma Comrades, the Seven red shirts MP's the Speaker had mark as being absent out their House seats when time vote for 12% VAT along with their party's business leader in House Renward - should be be made on their return pay visits to their respective constituencies to share with their constituents all what the Seven MP's learned while traveling to all kinds countries away from the Bahamaland - that could possibly be of benefit their own constituents?

RIGHT on, Comrade!

Childish and foolish. . . keep reminding us why the PLP must never be in our face as government again!!

Buy Carl Bethel one half pint and he done talking out he head. But him one quart and ...ok then !

Ad-hominic rebuttal only shows that you are "burst" and proved wrong but continues to fight by attacking the messenger. What Mr. Bethel favorite drink is or how much it takes to "mash him up" comes in here!

Shouldnt Ace Newbold be doing the explanations of the Parliamentary system ....to the general public ..?.???

Funny. Someone need to put an APB out on Ace.

"Crossing the Floor" is an integral part of democracy and exactly what the Westminster System is supposed to represent. There are two parties and if one party has the majority but it is making a ridiculous law, members of the ruling side are able to cross the floor and vote against the bill. That is the people's power. Firing dissenters within your party is tantamount to Fascism and indicates that the current FNM leadership has absolutely no idea how the Westminster is supposed to work.

Challenges and debate within a party equal a healthy democracy. Blind submission to a single party line is communism

In the book The English Constitution, Walter Bagehot emphasised the divide of the constitution into two components, the Dignified (that part which is symbolic) and the Efficient (the way things actually work and get done), and called the Efficient "Cabinet Government".[9] Although there have been many works since emphasising different aspects of the "Efficient", no one has seriously questioned Bagehot's premise that the divide exists in the Westminster system, though Israel and Japan operates without the "Dignified" part of government.
Members of the Cabinet are collectively seen as responsible for government policy, a policy termed cabinet collective responsibility. All Cabinet decisions are made by consensus, a vote is rarely taken in a Cabinet meeting. All ministers, whether senior and in the Cabinet, or junior ministers, must support the policy of the government publicly regardless of any private reservations. When a Cabinet reshuffle is imminent, a lot of time is taken up in the conversations of politicians and in the news media, speculating on who will, or will not, be moved in and out of the Cabinet by the Prime Minister, because the appointment of ministers to the Cabinet, and threat of dismissal from the Cabinet, is the single most powerful constitutional power which a Prime Minister has in the political control of the Government in the Westminster system.

I will tell you like mudda-sick told me. . .the are plenty information out there. . .you don't have to make untrue statements. . .go read!

All well and good, but it may have something to do with the fact that these MP's also held positions as Permanent Secretaries and Corporation Chairman. It might be that these positions cannot be held effectively if said MP is not in sync with the policies of the reigning government as there could be conflicts of interest............

Minnis giveth ......... Minnis taketh away .......... that is the power afforded Minnis by the Constitution.

"Political Party's " are the most anti democratic part of the system. Party discipline- i.e. forcing members to vote along party lines is tantamount to treason, i.e. forcing the elected to vote in line with party objectives regardless of their number one mandate which is to represent the will of the people's.

Anyone in support of firing party members for voting against "the party line" is not a supporter of democracy, much less a supporter of the people.

We need to push this issue and force these guys to come clean and get them out of office as quickly as possible.

Let's not forget, that the main reason "party discipline" exists, and persists is so that "party agenda's" can knowingly be forced on a populace despite the people's will.