North Side MLA Ezzard Miller will resubmit his “one man, one vote” motion to the LA, and has rejected Premier McKeeva Bush’s effort to deflect responsibility for delayed public consultations on the UK-Cayman relationship.

At an informal Monday gathering at the Legislative Assembly, Mr Miller took aim at Mr Bush, saying his “primary mission” was “to get the premier out of office, to get the UDP [Mr Bush’s United Democratic Party] out. I am not happy with the way the government is being administered”.

In the wake of last week’s UDP-led defeat of Mr Miller’s “private member’s motion” seeking “one man, one vote” in elections, he said he would renew his effort, moving to amend the Elections Law limiting an elector to a single vote instead of the current system whereby voters cast ballots for each representative in their district: four in both George Town and West Bay, three in Bodden Town, two in the Sister Islands and one in both East End and North Side.

Acknowledging that a defeated bill may not be reintroduced into the LA for at least six months, Mr Miller vowed to carry on nonetheless: “I will file another motion for one man, one vote by doing something different under the constitution.”

He pointed to Section 44 of the Elections Law, which says no one can vote for more candidates than seats in any district. He would seek to change it in accord with the superior law of Section 92 of the constitution, saying a person shall vote for only one MLA.

“Failing that,” he said, “I am in the process of getting the courts to interpret Section 92. I don’t know how it can be [otherwise] interpreted so that someone in George Town can vote for four, Bodden Town three and Cayman Brac two.”

He vowed to rewrite and resubmit the one man, one vote motion, “under one form or another”, as often as it took to have it passed.

Last week’s defeat, he said, was only in the face of the UDP’s silence, evidence that “the argument was full of holes. They didn’t have the confidence to present it.

“Mr Bush is not above the requirements of the constitution, He has to obey it, and there is no reasonable argument against it,” Mr Miller said, seeking to break the UDP’s stranglehold on power in West Bay.

His persistence, he said, was “because this is the right thing to do, There is a growing number of people in the Cayman Islands who want to see one man, one vote.”

He rejected the suggestion that time was insufficient to educate people for the 2013 general elections, asking “how hard is it to tell people they can only vote once. It’s not complicated?”

He denied, however, that reforming elections was his chief focus, saying he mostly sought to unseat the UDP, calling Mr Bush’s efforts to deflect blame for a truncated consultation period “incomprehensible and incompetent”.

Citing UK timelines for consultation on its relationship with the Cayman Islands, Mr Miller said the premier had known about the situation since November 2010, but had failed to act.

“A competent and confident government in a democracy would have established a select committee of the whole House” to study London’s “Partnership for Progress” White Paper to decide what the Cayman Islands needed to do.

In March this year, he said, “absent any consultation or review by the premier”, London instructed Mr Bush to launch public discussions. Even then, he said, the special committee that was eventually appointed, had failed to “let the people of Cayman know what his committee decided.”

“All the premier’s attacks on me cannot change the fact,” Mr Miller said, that he had “refused to develop a position paper” or present it to the LA for debate.

Last Saturday, Mr Bush flew to London for the Overseas Territories conference with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, discussing the results of the White Paper consultation.