Dear Editor
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I agree that the UPP needs to treat its membership with more respect. Politics is about addition, not pushing people away.
However, I don’t understand what talents Fitzroy is talking about that were so valuable that the ALP inherited when the defectors left the UPP.
Let’s look at the principal defectors: Lamin? His skills, please? Colin?
A good radio host. Give him that. But very deceitful. UPP says good riddance. Winston? Cocky, spoiled by Baldwin Spencer and created so much havoc with the fencing scandal where he let all the money go to his now comrades.
The Pig Meat? Bitter as gall because she was a woman scorned. Chaneel? Spoiled, rude, full of herself and felt she was entitled.
Dwayne? Can’t speak, back-stabber, knows nothing about finance. Trevor Young? Poor Trevor. They milked him dry about every grievance he had with UPP, then cut him off. A little job here, then oblivion.
And now Smith. He is in agriculture. He got a ministry.
What does he know about agriculture to be there? Lands? Of course, his job will be to be the front man to take Barbuda people land for Gaston Browne. Don’t envy him. He will have sleepless nights delivering that.
So can we agree on a few of the reasons why the defectors have been embraced by Gaston Browne (notice I did not say the Labourites)?
Their political and financial value to Gaston Browne.
Let’s start with Smith. We all know the story by now.
Why did Gaston Browne court him? The main reason is to provide breathing space for the anxiety caused by Robin’s illness. Another reason. To replace Gaston Browne’s wife Maria when the war starts with the Barbudans about their land.
Same thing about getting a cushion seat can be said about Dwayne George, but he did not get and does not have a seat. He is expendable, and will be soon.
The others, the ones who surround Gaston Browne on a Saturday afternoon. Their duties and skills set? To tell Gaston Browne even if he is going out in the street naked, how fine his clothes look. And to continually cuss the UPP and heap a lot of coals on their head, with passion and with vigour. Whether truth or lies.
To maintain their focus, he is willing to give them monetary gifts, etc, out of the nation’s treasury. So it does not cost him a thing.
Concerning what’s going on in the UPP, that is like a lodge and even Fitzroy does not really know what is happening, especially with the leadership.
Gisele is not under any political pressure to step down. The members, especially the men, are afraid of her. She will stay there and singlehandedly destroy the party. Pringle? Well, Pringle does what Gisele tells him to.
Bowen is two-face. He is waiting patiently for Pringle to crash so he can take over. He does not know much about the workings of the UPP, nor does he care to know.
He just keeps his head down, betrays who he wants to and suck up to who he wants to. He is a dangerous floater. Chances are he will be going back home as soon as the mission he’s on is accomplished.
The immature and inexperienced MP has now entered the Labour bosom. The others seem adrift. They just don’t know how to handle all the treachery and the lack of support from those up top.
Shawn has achieved her two house spots and one, so she has her full pension. If the party retrogressed while she was there, then whose fault is it? Mary Clare Hurst she is not. Too lazy for for the role of a true GS, or as Trevor Young called her, Mama Lazy.
The Labourites have to feel suffocated. Didn’t the leader tell them that the just comes were the bottom of the UPP barrel? How come they are at the top of the food chain in ALP? What does that say about ALP’s capabilities?
One last word, if Lovell comes back, the membership of the party must forbid him from just going out and taking any and everybody to run. To save the party, that must not be his job. He sucks at it. Look at his record.
But should he come back? Well, who else they have?
Mikey B
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