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How does a Parliamentary candidate get away with spouting crap like this in 2007: “A UBP vote is a vote back to the plantation. It is a vote that will return the shackles to our feet!” It’s bad enough that someone like Lovitta Foggo is a candidate at all. What’s worse is that this woman is a teacher in the Government system. This outrageous comment typifies the level – or depressing  lack of it – of debate in this election and is right up there with fellow PLP candidate Marc Bean’s one the other day that the UBP had a “neo-fascist agenda”. “If they have the opportunity they will lock all of us up. It’s true,” he told The Royal Gazette. As Christian Leavy points out on politics.bm, it’s hard to know what’s worse – that these idiots believe this stuff or don’t believe it and say it anyway!  The only place Bean and Foggo are likely to be locked up after the election is in MAWI. Roll on December 18 and let’s get this sorry mess over. 

Can we start a Tom Vesey For Parliament campaign? His weekly Bermuda Sun column is a beacon of sense, sanity and integrity amid the ignorance and bilious mud-slinging of the Bermuda Election campaign – and we sure could do with more forthright, plain speaking in the House. As always, his column on Friday cut through the crap. If you plan to vote on December 18, I urge you to read “The lie at the heart of the PLP’s campaign” first. As he says, don’t believe the hate-filled hype …