Speeches by Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And my sensei has always taught me how to get home. [Inaudible interjections and laughter ]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And he has taught me never to get into a fight with an ignorant person because they will bring you down to their level and beat you on expe-rience. Hon. Derrick V. Burgess, Sr.: The Bible tells you that too.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Earlier today, Mr. Speaker, we heard a Member who might have been giving his first speech on that side of the House—on the right side of the House— 1384 14 June 2024 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly [Inaudible interjection]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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—but yet talking about the country’s first political party. So he might have his first speech, but we are the first party. He wanted to talk about a bit of history. But he failed to talk about the history of the party that he represents, Mr. Speaker, the party that had the nickname of the “Forty Thieves.”

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Why? Because all they did was take their business interest and create legislation around it to purport and to push that interest alone.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Mr. Speaker, that group of individuals, because they were not a party at the time, were happy with the property vote. They were happy making sure that persons that did not have property did not have the inalienable right to vote. They were happy ensuring that a certain demographic of this society was marginalised. And that gentleman, that Honourable Member, …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And yet he says he did it by himself, as a no- name, as if the current Member of Parliament for that seat did not win by 300 votes, as if the former Member of Parliament did not stand next to him, vouching for him —

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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—and ensuring that the support that he had was transitioned over to him. Unearned, Mr. Speaker. And Mr. Speaker, where I get a little perturbed, is that the Honourable Member decided to use aviation as one of his examples.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And talked about pilots, Mr. Speaker. But if we are going to use aviation as an analogy, there is such a thing in aviation known as flying behind the power curve.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Now, you are coming in for a landing, Mr. Speaker, and you notice that you got a higher -than- usual sink rate, meaning the plane is descending faster than you want it to descend. And so what happens? The novice pilot —somebody who does not really know how to fly, who might just want to talk about aviation—would pull back …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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You pull back a bit more. The plane will continue to sink and increase its sink rate. But by the time you realise that you have got to add power . . . so you start to add power. And no matter how much power you add, that attitude will become (what we call ) an unusual attitude. And you …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Now, Mr. Speaker, in 2017, this country found itself in an unusual attitude ( if we are talking about aviation). But it is a good thing that our leader is a pilot. It is a good thing that part of training for your pilot’s licence is going and recovering from unusual attitudes. We had a party, the OBA, who did …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And the then Minister of Finance came back within a year asking to borrow more. But yet, today, we can stand and say that the PLP Ad-ministration— the same Administration that a gentleman earlier had the audacity to talk negatively about — can stand and say t hat we are on track for a balanced budget, for the first time …

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And so . . . and I hear that people . . . that we exported it, Mr. Speaker. But let me tell you. Under the OBA, you know what they exported?

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Two thousand jobs!

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And what did they think [that] was going to do? They tried again to use aviation as an analogy and messed it up with the airport deal.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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When they had the subject - matter experts sitting here and, in a parliamentary speech, gave them the answers to their questions, the solution to their problems, what was the then Finance Minister’s response? Oh, because he has read a few textbooks and has a couple of degrees, he thinks he knows it.

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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We always get you home safely. [Inaudible interjections and laughter ]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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Aha! [Inaudible interjections]

14 Jun 2024 House of Assembly

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And so Mr. Speaker —