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“You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”
— Abraham Lincoln
What follows is the Progressive Labour Party’s secret step-by-step blueprint for u...
DATE: Oct 06, 2022
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Vic Ball
“It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled”
— Mark Twain
Hindsight always affords us the opportunity to see precisely why David Burt cunningly rushed back to the polls in a snap election two years earl...
DATE: Sep 15, 2022
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Vic Ball
“Where there is no vision, the people perish”
— Proverbs 29:18
Bermuda, what else needs to occur before David Burt’s leadership is declared an official national disaster? He has presided over blunders and failures that have cost the country a...
DATE: Aug 18, 2022
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Vic Ball
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” — Unknown
Bermuda, somewhere along the line, we as a society have lost our way. We have continuously elected ...
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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Vic Ball
“Bad leadership is like a flat tyre. It is very hard to go anywhere until you change it”
— Unknown
Bermuda, in my last opinion, I clearly outlined Bermuda’s economic and political position as it stands under David Burt’s leadership. It was a...
DATE: Jan 28, 2022
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Vic Ball
“Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.” – Confucius
Bermuda, before we heard the terms flatten the curve, social distance, quarantine, lock down or curfew, David Burt made a speech in 2019 at the Fairmont Southampton Resort where he told B...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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Vic Ball
“This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last, many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die, don’t ask me why”
— Bob Marley
An interesting dynamic has taken place in Bermuda politics. The Progressive Labour Party ha...
DATE: Jun 28, 2021
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Vic Ball
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”
—Turkish Proverb
It is very rare that I would write a follow-up t...
DATE: Jun 01, 2021
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Vic Ball
“A leader is a someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improves the system the live under”
— Sam Houston
In the run-up to the last General Election, I was asked by Mike Sharpe what was my greatest fear. I expressed that my grea...
DATE: Apr 13, 2021
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Vic Ball
At this moment, mainstream and social media are excited about the potential of a third party running in the upcoming snap election. As a candidate for the One Bermuda Alliance, I am mindful that we came into being as a third-party alternative to the ...
DATE: Aug 28, 2020
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