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Government is disconnected from the people, charges OBA candidate

Wayne Scott believes the PLP cares more about attacking the OBA, and staying in power, than it does about the people of Bermuda.Mr Scott, the Opposition candidate for Warwick North Central, said there was a deep disconnect between Government and the people, and suggested that it was difficult to know what the PLP actually stood for.Pointing to the ruling party’s political rally at T.N. Tatem Middle School on Tuesday night as a, ‘telling reflection of the Government’s election campaign to date’, Mr Scott accused his opponents of doing nothing but running out an endless stream of negative attacks on the Opposition.“[The PLP are] saying absolutely nothing to the people of Bermuda about the problems they face,” he said in a statement last night. “If the Government spent just half the time on the problems of the people that it has spent attacking the OBA, people might have a better idea of what it’s for in this election.”On a night when Premier Paula Cox rallied the party faithful by telling them people recognised ‘our work is not yet complete’, she and several other PLP candidates turned their fire on the OBA, accusing the Opposition of going ‘behind people’s backs to deceive them to get power’.“Don’t be fooled by that rebranded party, that rebranded UBP. It’s the same old power base with new window dressing,” Dennis Lister, who is running in Sandys North Central, said.At the same time as the rally was taking place, Mr Scott said he was canvasing the neighbourhood and hearing a story of a population that felt abandoned.“The rally showed a Government thinking more about itself than the people, with no mention of the future, no discussion of ideas and no solutions; making it more clear than ever that this election is about more of the same with the Government or change with the OBA.“I was canvassing in a neighbourhood with the sounds of the rally coming across, talking with out-of-work residents who felt they’d been abandoned, with no-one listening to them and everyone wondering about how they were going to find work again. The disconnect between Government and the people is deep.”