McCartney: PLP peddling dreams with electricity pledge

Wed, Apr 19th 2017, 08:06 AM

Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney yesterday slammed the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) for its "loose peddling of dreams" with regard to its pledge to provide free electricity to certain consumers after the next general election.
"The Progressive Liberal Party is clearly losing what little grip on reality it has left as it traffics in the loose peddling of dreams as a general election approaches," McCartney told The Nassau Guardian.
"Any sensible, rational person understands that neither the government nor Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) is in a financial position to subsidize free electricity.
"However, more insulting is the notion that Bahamians want to be perpetual beggars, crawling to the government to provide for their needs."
McCartney said "it is the Progressive Liberal Party, and its partner in misrule, the Free National Movement, who have crippled BPL" with a legacy of bad debt and mismanagement.
"After allowing foreign interests to gain control of BPL, and sitting idly by while Bahamians suffered through horrific blackouts and exorbitant electricity costs, the PLP is now trying to peddle nonsense as opposed to trying to provide more affordable electricity to consumers," McCartney said.
"After five years of no growth in the economy and having added billions of dollars to the national debt, while squandering over a billion dollars in value-added tax revenue while failing to do a single thing about the state of BPL, this should lead the PLP to reflect on its record with shame.
"But clearly shame is a foreign concept to the PLP."
McCartney said the DNA is focused on growing the economy and lowering the cost of electricity so that all Bahamians can afford it.
"Basic concepts of good governance, such as making the cost of living and doing business more affordable, are foreign ideas to the PLP," McCartney said.
"The best thing the Bahamian people can do at the polls come May 10 is reject the PLP and its mirror image of the FNM, and vote DNA for a better life for all Bahamians."

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