20 July 2007 | Bermuda Sun

PLP supporters last night came out in their hundreds - some say at least a thousand showed up - to hear leader and Premier Ewart Brown sound the battle cry for the next general election.

Dr. Brown blasted the United Bermuda Party, hit back hard against its leader Michael Dunkley and drew heavily on the legacy of Dame Lois Browne-Evans, the PLP pioneer who died earlier this year. "Let's do it for the Dame," he shouted, fist-pumping in the air. "Let's do it for the Dame."

He stuck with the theme, promising an annual national holiday to commemorate her life and again questioned the integrity of an Opposition leader who went away on business instead of attending her funeral.

Dr. Brown also gave a lot of attention to the unearthing of the BHC scandal, again claiming it was part of a dirty tricks campaign by the Opposition designed to destroy the party.

The allegations of corruption against him and other party members contained in a stolen police file and published in the Mid-Ocean were "baseless, stupid, senseless things that we would not contemplate," he said.

"They expected to find a boy bending over, they did not expect to find a man standing tall.

"They thought if we kill the head, the body would die. It has not worked. As long as you are the body, and I'm the head and God is willing, we will not die." MORE! »