Neither side of the House is realy interested in integrity legislation or we would not be calling for it in the year of Our Lord 2011. I am no soothsayer, but I will predict that if MP’s are required to declare their asset you would see a mass exodus from Parliament. My only caution would be don’t stand in the doorway: you would be trampled in the stampede to get out.

Barbadians will get the governance they deserve, it is the economy or nothing.

David wrote “Barbadians will get the governance they deserve.’

Barbadians deserve good governance from the privileged professionals elected by the people of Barbados.

@Enuff

Your comment is most profound, and if I may add, very correct. Too often people stay on the sidelines and criticise but do little if anything else to help shape directions in the the way they would want.
Get involved always remembering that there is usually more than one way of approaching any problem, and solutions are often multiple. Political parties in Barbados do need the shake up from time to time; they also need individuals to come forward and be a part of the process for advancing the nation.

@Enuff and George

You are correct one of the ways to promote change is from within – though Mascoll did not subscribe to such an approach – you should not succumb to simplistic reasoning by underestimating party culture honed over many years which often times subsumes the individual.

You are correct though, an option is to get involved.

I’m glad that bloggers are taking the same view I had for a while now, we are the managers of the M P’s, we can hire and fire, therefore we need to let them know exactly what we want or get out. Sometime drastic steps have to be taken to get the required results, sometimes things will have to get worse before they get better, sometime we have to deny ourselves certain wants to satisfy our needs, sometimes we have to with-hold our services so that in the future we can offer them in a better manner, sometimes we have to strike and hold this country to ransom so that the politicians will realise we are serious. NO PAIN NO GAIN.

Any hints or rumours of budget day

@David

May I remind you that August has 31 days. You should also note that the announcement didn’t state the year could be 2011,2012,2013…. 🙂

Check this out. 2 Bs and a D = Bajan politics.
And….
Wish I was Plastic Bag!

http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/gotta-be-mas-for-a-good-cause/

http://us.cnn.com/video/#/video/cvplive/cvpstream1?hpt=hp_t1

@Alien

We have the Rihanna Show still in the pipeline.

Up until the recent legislation brought by the DLP, the BLP had the upper hand in making the argument that they are the ones who wanted Integrity legislation and DLP did not. In what I will deem a calculated approach, not intended, to make good on a campaign promise – hung around their collective necks like a South African apartheid necklace – the DLP probably thinks that they have now even the argument to a stalemate from which they cannot suffer; it is now easy for them to mute the argument;
What is now clear, is that both parties do not want what the people insist on. The people must now demonstrate that they will hold them to account -at election time- as a condition for “individuals “to become their elected representative in the next parliament due to be reconstituted in 2013.
If Barbadians are serious that Integrity legislation is very important to them, then they need to sidestep the party structure and take the request/demand directly to each person vying to be the people’s representative in the people’s parliament.

1: Create a pledge document requiring a signature from every candidate
2: Publish the signed document on the blogs, face-book etc
3: Publicize the position of every candidate to all Barbadians

Again if a majority of Barbadians are for Integrity legislation and the politicians base on the information depicting candidates for it –signed- and those who are not –not signed- it should be very easy for the will of the majority voters to be in parliament. Right now there is no individual parliamentarian commitment to back up the will of a party Leader such as we were led to believe was the case with Thompson. Were I in Barbados I would walk with my Video Camera, politely inform prospective candidates all that I intend to video tape my asking them to sign the document, and then proceed to do so. Think about this folks if people are made aware of their individual candidates intent and choose to ignore those who don’t sign and elect them to parliament anyways, it would be fair to say that the people elected the government they want and deserves.