Did you say...Poll.... or Leadership....

Well someone is in full force doing some polling this week and my guess is the Liberals... and so we’re all likely to wake up next week heading in a whole new direction... or so the people close to the Premier probably think... yes, leadership by a poll... usually once the results are in the “backroom boys” will be trying to change the direction of Government based on what about 1,600 random people who picked up the phone told the pollster... sure seems to me to be a strange way to lead our Province but it appears to be the case with all Governments no matter what party affiliation.... obviously the key issue that "should" surface out of this poll would be the "state of the economy" but with the abundance of money put into the Island's economy last year from the PNP’s then this issue may not have caught up to us Islanders yet, so who knows... the issue could be Mike Duffy's wardrobe as he seems to be the Newsmaker of the day.... but if it does turn out to be the economy, which I expect it will be, then unfortunately our Government will have very little financial latitude to play with and it will be hard for them to really do anything to improve it as it’s really a global issue... the interesting thing about this current poll was the five principal issues they questioned were the Western Hospital changes, the school consolidations, the PNP's, Sunday shopping and the Premier's leadership... obviously all concerns of the present Government or they wouldn't be asking the questions... what surprised me the most was why wasn't there any questions about farming, fishing, tourism or the environment which one would have expected... I would have though these issues would have been important to get the pulse from Islanders on…. I wish they would have asked a few more questions about what Islanders think about the level of service provided by Government and what people think about the level of "red tape" in our daily lives... in any event a good leader leads and hopefully only using a "poll" as a guiding tool...