We hired you, we can fire you

All is fair in love, war and politics.

I used this heading approximately a year ago when I thought I had seen everything in politics. I have been around politics a long time, but this past 12 months takes the cake.

We have seen a premier elected by a handful of party faithful, one who won’t go to the polls and get a mandate from the people. A party that has lost the last seven byelections; a party that is floundering in the water trying to stay afloat.

But I must say this premier is very popular with his own governing MHAs. Why else would they clamour behind him when he wanted to eliminate 10 of them; they were all strongly behind him and heaping praise on him for the wonderful things that he is doing.

Then, this past week, Premier Paul Davis decided to cut the size of cabinet. Again, ministers clamoured around him offering to be the sacrificial lambs and taking a big cut in salary.

Never in my life have I seen or heard so many people with high-paying salaries and goldplated pensions trying to eliminate their jobs. Why?

It can’t be because they care about the province and the debt that they have incurred on the people, or they wouldn’t have done it in the first place.

I am not blaming Premier Davis for these decisions. I am blaming the MHAs who we sent in to represent us, who, when they get inside the overpass, forget about us and do as the premier says because no one has the guts to speak their own mind.

To the MHAs: the premier doesn’t give you your job; we the people do the hiring and the firing. Capt. Wilfred Bartlett (Ret.) Green Bay South