My brothers and sisters, PLPs all, it is a distinct honour to have been asked to speak to you this evening.  And I bring you greetings from the Fox Hill constituency where we confidently expect and God willing to be the next Member of Parliament for the Fox Hill constituency.
 
    We are encouraging everyone we know to vote ‘NO’ in the referendum on Wednesday next.  It is the only sensible thing to do.  If you are not sure, if you do not understand, vote ‘NO’.  We are confident that if you really do know then you will vote ‘NO’.
 
    I want to spend a few minutes tonight to talk about the disease of conceit.  It is a disease from which the Prime Minister suffers.  It has caused him to do some strange things.  Among them is his running up and down this country in the manner of a rabid dog, talking at every turn, calling this one a liar and that one a liar. Of course, the only one he has forgotten to call a liar is himself.  After all, it is often said it takes a liar to know a liar.
 
    But part of the reason for raising this, is to provide you in brief with a psychological profile of man who is deeply disturbed.  It is the story of man that may have been called water head when he was a little boy running in the schoolyard.  He may have been teased because he wasn’t as slim as his friends, and wasn’t as tall as some other kids.  It is the story of man grown up to be king, but never quite getting over the fact that in Abaco because of the colour of his skin, he was treated like a second-class citizen. Always able to peep through the window at the dance but never allowed to come in.  And this is the profile of man who I am convinced would do anything to stay in power.
 
    We must help this man out of his misery.  He no longer represents what is best in us.  He must go, and tonight should be marked as the beginning of the end.  This is the picture of man who is deeply disturbed and is in need of help.
 
    I started this way tonight and I want you to know that this is mild stuff compared to what we could say, to contrast the manner and conduct of the Leader of the Opposition.  No dirty tricks campaign.  No nastiness.  Just the facts.  Just the truth, and with the truth we shall win.  One has to ask oneself, what kind of low-down, dirty, filthy man would sponsor ads on the radio that attacks a man’s wife and his daughter?  Only a nasty, dirty, vicious man.  And yet the Prime Minister approved the ads that now run on the radio attacking the wife of the Leader of the PLP and his daughter.  Certainly his daughter is a private citizen.  Certainly his wife  has not interjected herself into this campaign.  How pray tell does she get brought into it?  Only a man who is dirty, nasty, crude, vicious, boorish and slimy can approve such a thing.  And you all know exactly who I am talking about.
 
    It is being said that Hubert Ingraham plans to spend one half a million dollars alone to defeat Perry Christie in this referendum, and why because in their own tracking polls, Perry Christie has proven to be more admired in Bahamian society than he is.
 
    It is obscene what is being done in the name of the Bahamian people.  The amount of money that is being spent running up and down the country, flying on airplanes, placing ads on the radio is obscene.  Can you imagine, a Prime Minister spending 500,000 dollars in an effort that he will lose anyhow and which after next week will mean absolutely nothing?
 
    At the same time, you have PLP candidates and I am sure FNM candidates who are unable in these hard times to meet the demands of their would be constituents for money--- not because they want to beg, but because they have to beg.  School fees need to be paid.  Food has to be put on the table.  Social Service workers are turning away those who need assistance.  It is frustrating for the social service workers who cannot cope with the need that they see but which needs are not being fulfilled.
 
    That is what Hubert Ingraham has brought us to.  He has made indecent use of our public funds.  He has used private funds in a wasteful manner.  Imagine what that 500,000 dollars could do to feed the hungry and re-empower the poor.  But no, Mr. Know-It-All Prime Minister has to have it his way and waste our time in this referendum.
 
    I believe that we need to say something about this.  It is simply disgraceful.
 
    Further, it is clear that this will not be a free and fair election, not the referendum and not the general election.  We must be careful that Mr. Ingraham and his FNM friends do not try to stuff the ballot boxes.  We must be vigilant.  I am recommending that we call in international election monitors from the European Community to monitor our elections.  I want a third eye watching over this process.
 
    No more clear is the abuse of the electoral system than in the abuse of the Broadcasting Corporation.  The staff on the inside  tell us that the reporters are instructed that the first three stories in any newscast must be dedicated to the Prime Minister.  PLP candidates hardly find their way on the news.  FNM candidates can be found in abundance.  The FNM has bought all the advertising spots available.  PLPs who want to buy spots are denied, because it may offend the Government.
 
    This is not fair and I believe that the only solution is that people power must be used to bring the Broadcasting Corporation in line.  There is the old expression if you do not hear, you will feel.  And so be warned that there must be serious consequences in store for an organization and a Government that continues to suppress information.  I hope that everyone gets my drift.
 
    Once again, please vote ‘NO’ on Wednesday.  Please vote for the PLP whenever the General Election is called.  And thank you very much indeed.