“funny the bedfellows that poiltics can make out of people”–your’e so right just only asking as i remmember prime minister’s stuart tirade at the i think 33rd annual general conference against former prime minister thompson when he was attempting to regain leadership of the party referring to him as a destructive force; mr thompson’s biting remarks against Mr hammila lashley when he crossed the floor to the blp; mr adriel brathwaithe and mr jepter ince’s campaign to prevent sitting mp mr david estwick from regaining the opportunity to contest his seat;mr estwick’s and mr sleepy smith’s bruising battle on the Down to Brass Tacks program; mr estwick’s visible hurt at his removal from economic affairs to agriculture buttressed by his ‘time longer bthan twine remark’; the indignity mr kellman suffered at the hands of mr thompson and the party can be described as the mother of all indignations- so just only asking we need to be balanced.

BAFBFP I like ya there today

The above maybe dismissed as DLP propaganda but the question must be asked.

If Mascoll is the official BLP spokesperson is the party prepared for him to speak outside parliament if they were to reelected?

BU Mascoll has been promised the Central Bank.

It seems that the battle has only just begun and you have been able to rile the Dems. As you have said you are coming and hell is coming with you. There is a sense of fear and trembling. Keep it up and you will give them goadies..Chris is a twotime loser so i cant understand what foolishness the dems are saying.

@Little Angel

Have a hard time swallowing a Central Bank Mascoll appointment.

It would be reminiscent of David Simmons’ appointment to CJ.

We have to stop the politicizing of key offices which strive on being perceived as independent.

Well it’s good to see Gregory Nicholls propping up Owen Arthur after all that Owen put him through.

It’s a pity Clyde Asscolll found it necessary to abandon the people of St. Michael North – West after representing them with the support of both political parties.

No wonder Owen Arthur has refused thus far…to address the voter padding charge made by Rawle Eastmond regarding the BLP conference in October 2010.

Something is rotten in Denmark !

Litte Angel is there a vacancy for the Governor of the Central Bank? Dr Worrell was just appointed . Is he not entitled to serve until he reaches retirement age?

No there is not. But Dr. Worrell is a contract employee (he retired from the Bank already) and his contract can be terminated by the next party if they win government.

Balance

You made a little mistake. All top level post in the Public Service are made on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, and that recommendation is rubber stamped by the Public Service Commission and forwarded to the Governor General who must make the appointment. That is why we have so many incompetent heads of department: they are appointed because of their political connections and not their ability to do the job.

@Enuff

You have made BU’s point, we need to do things better as far as appointments to key offices go.

@ David

Based on COMPETENCE, even if the person appointed is POLITICAL. Let me reiterate that Barbados is an island of TEN people.

@ccc ya paling cock !

Before we accept him as a candidate for our constituency,we need a Character reference from his employer, a Police Certificate of Character, and letters from all Bridgetown Hire Purchase establishments.

@tony

You are correct, a national swing in austere times is not an unexpected event.

thank you mr franklyn but i just wanted to rebut david’s inference to little angel which suggested that only the blp makes these political appointments by his reference to david simmmons. i go further with respect to this david simmons issue. while the very nature of the appointment would have caused some concern; it seems better to use the circumstances of the appointment for political fodder rather than educate the public to the fact that the appointment had the blessings of mr thompsion as leader of the opposition provided certain conditions were met which were met.only the negative aspects of mr simmons work are highlighted in this form and i am sure there are many positives which mr franklyn can show for the benefit of contributors.

Tony you are living in a dream world. First of all any smart politician would tell you that all politics is local. And while a national swing could theorctically carry any seat, strond local representatives often survive national swings on the strength of the person that is running. It is true that the SMNW seat was won by 280 votes, but look at who Sinckler was running against, a former leader of the opposition, minister of finance, and strong home town boy. He, Mascoll won the seat only three and a half years before by over 600 votes, so Sinckler overturned a 600 + vote majority and turned it in to a 280 vote advantage to the DLP. That is close to a 1000, turnaround. If you check the last polling results published by Wickham you would see that the swing to the DLP in NW was one of the lowest and the party support was not the strongest. This means that the candidate, Sinckler, has a stronge personal support base that helped him beyond what the party could give. this is critical.

But ultimately representatives are voted in our out based on performance. Without fear of contradiction nobody in the labour party could possible go into that constituency and claim that Sinckler has been a weak or ineffective representative. In fact living in the area as I do, I can sayy without contradiction that he has done more for this area than any other representative that has represented this constituency in the pass. He had got more roads done, street lighting put in, houses repaired (of course he was minister of UDC so that helped), provided more jobs and work opportunities for people; did more sponsorship for sporting and cultural organizations, given out more educational scholarships, computers, back to school supplies for needy parents and generally done more community based programmes than any other representative in the parliament. In fact he has also gottten government to repair the old deacons development project at the farm which clyde mascoll allowed to fall into dis-repair and refuse to repair. He has apparently got the private sector to agree to to construct a mini indoor stadium on the same sight at no cost to government, which should start construction in another few weeks. On top of that he has also gotten the government to compulsorily acquire the texaco cricket ground for the use of the people in black rock who were banned by the owners from using since 2007.

On top of all of this Sinckler is now a national figure. You might not like him, but apparently in every poll which is coming out now he is fairly well liked as a national leader by a cross section of Barbadians. Now I would find it hard to believe that such a figure, with such a strong record to run on in his constituency and so well liked across the country will just be a victim to some national swing.

If that is what the BLP is hoping for then I wish them well. Mr. Nicholls, a virtual unknown politically and an outsider in a very paroachial minded area like black rock and deacons will certinaly have to bring more than hell with him to prevail against a home town boy. afterall home drums beat first down here.

David, you really think those things matter to the average voter in the Farm?

Sinckler prospects looking good based on black rockian’s submission; unfortunately there are 30 seats (possibly 31 in 2013) in the Lower House so at least 15 more are required. lol

@Black rockian
I like your analysis but i think it was fraught with a minor error, Mascoll did not win the seat for the blp in 2003, so Mascoll was fighting with blp numbers and got many more votes than any other blp candidate ever got. You make some telling points, but I say if people are hurting and they can trace that hurt to Sinckler then in spite of some home delivery he will feel the pain. People make their decisions based on emotions and not making it in these harsh economiic times is devastating for so many, those reps who are unable to deliver on a national scale will pay a great price

This submission is utter foolishness.Pure political spin.Once you throw your hat in the ring you can expect this. The electorate will be judging the DLP at the next election,not all of this claptrap