Opposition files a ‘Lack Of Confidence in the Speaker’

Leader of the Opposition, Hon Roy McTaggart, advised today that he has filed in Parliament a motion of ‘Lack of Confidence in the Speaker, the Hon. McKeeva Bush OBE, JP’. motion was seconded by Ms Barbara Conolly, MP for George Town South, and supported by the entire Opposition.

“It has been increasingly obvious to me over the past week that despite his letter demanding the resignation of the Hon. McKeeva Bush as Speaker, the Premier does not appear to have any intention of acting to ensure the removal of Mr Bush from the post”, Mr McTaggart said. “The most recent confirmation of this is the Premier’s excuse that the Opposition’s filing of a motion of a Lack of Confidence in the Government somehow complicates his handling of the matter of Mr Bush and he went on to question the Opposition’s priorities.”

“But given the Premier’s failure to act despite the deadline given to Mr Bush having passed, and Mr Bush refusing to step down, I now have to ask the Premier what are his priorities? I suspect that they are all about desperately trying to keep his government intact,” he added.

The Opposition leader indicated that if the Premier insists that he will dither on this as he does on everything else, then it becomes his responsibility to do what the Premier is afraid to do.

“I remind the public that it was the Premier who took Mr Bush into his Government following the last election, and it was the Progressives who decided that it was better to be in Opposition than to again form a Government with Mr Bush”, he concluded.