Fruendel will lose his seat, but Owen will not be the PM. It will be a stalmate results. 🙂

“To Island Gal:
Stop with this Mia thing; join the BLP and I would join and support you for leader. You have more substance.’

Lemmie doa’t mek muh start cussing yuh dis early mawning, it too early fuh dat kinda behaviour. How de rass yuh want tah tell muh tah stop dis MIA ting? Who de rass yuh tink I is? HUH? Bruddah man yuh cahn tell muh how to tink and how tah speak! YOU ARE OUT OF PLACE!

To Island Gal:
I know you were behaving too proper for too long. Mia is a lost cause, politically.

This blog has now become an integral part of the “silly seasons” and as such is now pretty useless as a source for reasoned debate, in fact it now largely resembles the main stream media.

Its all about who is up and who is down, party hacks and operatives trading insults.

BU, it was good while it lasted.

“The Dlp must act now”, ” The DLP won’t win with Stuart as the leader”, repeatedly I read thst DLP needs to act on the Cadres poll. But act how…..?
Scenario 1 is that Stuart jumps instead of being pushed. He hands over the leadership to Sinckler or Inniss. How likely is this to happen?
Scenario 2 : Stuart is pushed. But, pushed how? Certainly “the eager 11” can’t go to the GG. That scenario is not an option, won’t work.
That leaves another “no confidence ” scenario. In which case, since Stuart decided not to jump, he will have to call an election.
If this scenario plays out, the DLP’s pr campaign is going to be of the utmost importance. The spin they put on forcing out Stuart.
It might very well be the only way the DLP stands a change of winning the election, because as it stands now they lose.
However, party unity is PERCEIVED to be stonger in the DLP than BLP, but with a no confidence scenario the DLP tsands to lose that edge over the BLP.
Interesting times, however, not sure how the country as a whole stands to benefit from all this.

@Old School

What is your point? Politics like religion is emotive but as observing asserts pearls of wisdom will have to be searched out.

@Sargeant

Are you saying that the DLP should play dead in the intervening period before general election is called?

The BLP election playbook fell off a truck, read it here first:

– Arthur will do sweet sounding speeches before familiar audiences about transformation as his means of communicating.He will remain general and avoid anything controversial. He will try to stay above the fray.
The role of the Nation newspaper will be paramount in this communications strategy. Expect a continued all out daily onslaught by the Nation’s columnists on the DLP to assist Arthur’s case in the court of public opinion.Mascoll’s column will be the weekly ecconomic attack dog in this strategy.

– Promise tax relief without any mention of massive spending cuts or sacrifice. As he said once “everyone wants to go to heaven but noone wants to die”. Promise fuel subsidy, give back allowances –

– Convince gullible people that Constituency Councils are a major part of government expenditure and can be cut while plan behind the scenes how to retain them with a different title after the election.

– Keep CLICO as innuendo and smear to bash the late David Thompson because after all, he is not here to defend himself.

– Work behind the scenes to get your wealthy private donors on track with promises of contracts, board chairmanships, etc – In other words talk transformation but practise the same old politics.

– Hold His nose and pretend to like Mia Mottley because apparently some people in the public still do.

– Blame the DLP for everything conceivable in Barbados even if your party put some of the mess in place.It is said that Bajans have short memories.

– Blame the DLP for tourists not spending and say that you will get the high end tourists here quickly.

– Avoid any head to head with Chris Sinckler in the house of Assembly.

As the weeks go by, you will see every single one of these points played out continuously.

@ !

Come on !, are you serious, have you really though over what you wrote before posting it?

And yes, the BLP election playbook fell off a truck, and you picked it up last campaign, because the same things you are accusing the BLP of doing, you did last election.

During the last election campaign, the DLP went on a smear campaign, insinuating that the BLP parliamentarians were corrupt; mention was continually being made to forensic audits; there was reference to a cheque deposited by Arthur, that all and sundry on this blog never failed to mention; Thompson went overseas and talked about tax-payers money in foreign accounts, and I heard John Lovell with this recently; there was a constant talk about “the mess” that was found; the inability to perform or get results was blamed on the BLP, the recession, or both.

When the mood was different and the DLP was pushing “Time for Change”, was Thompson not given the privilege to speak at many functions, so much so that it seem as though he was the prime minister at the time?

And don’t talk about wealthy private donors, did not the DLP have the largest campaign in the history of campaigns? Where did this money come from?

Are CBC and the Advocate not doing the same thing you are accusing the Nation of doing? Are not John Lovell, Maureen Holder and Rosemary Alleyne doing the propaganda job at CBC for the DLP. Hve you checked the CBC Evening News and People’s Business lately?

Talk about short memories? Surely you jest, you can do better than this.

!

Wow, copied and pasted from the DLP in 2007. Are you also BLPNation critic, you write and sound alike.

Na, na ,nuh, na, nuh, the Dems are desperate!

@ Scout,
Ask the average young person about Errol Barrow and he/she might have heard the name but knows little of what he did, therefore to be pushing the Barrow line every elections is wasting time……………………

Do not say so, yeah… VOB carried an interview with a little primary school boy last year before Independence Day and the little boy said that Barrow gave his blood for we to become independant. I nearly crashed my car when I heard that. So the DLP teachers in our system or if he is being raised in a DLP home must be brainwashing these impressionable minds at the primary level.

“Sandra Husbands is a woman of substance and I do hope that she is successful even though out of all the politicians in the DLP, Donville seems to be the only one with some balls.”
the problem with these johnny come lately politicians is that they are not committede to anything other than themselves. they have no loyalty or patienceand hence flirt from constituency to constituency hoping for instant success. Mr inniss has connected already like Mr toppin, Mr michael Lashley, Mr denis kellman . miss Mottley and even Mr gline clarke at down to earth level and who could possibly attract votes from the other side. mrs husbands should have continued courting mr blackett’s constituency. her chances there would have been better than against mr inniss. mr grant after a creditable showing against mr jones ran away and exposed a new comer who also performed creditably and from reports on the ground had a good chance of unseating mr jones given the present circumstances but he has run away and exposed mr jones to another neophyte and emboldening his chances of re-election again.

Yeah Miller (D boss)
Supp Dawg…..we here wondering ( like Prodigal)….send out a holla..

I do have absolute right to question the methodly which saysthat 38%of peoplesays that the BLP stands achance of winning and suggest that 50% says owen is the preffered there is a leader .there is a definte contracdiction there.

@ (not BU)
Wait these peoples fa real ?..Hear Miss P ( Brass Tacks)..she questioning the polls also…..packa brainy wackas….Bushie I know you call a spade a spade and don’t indulge in such nonsense…..D wack don’t include you. But whata I hera….ouch ouch ouch…lol..this is a laugh…..
When last elections..Wickham polls predict 20-10…they were all laughs…..we didn’t stoop to this level to dispute the polls …nor castigate Wickham….but now ..the script flip….we hearing this nonsense…
Guess what he was right then..20-10….and know what ..most probably RIGHT NOW !

Interesting also to listen to Minister Kellman calling in to the afternoon talk show to quiz Wickham. If we are to judge by Kellman and Lashley initial response the government has taken a defensive position.

@ac

If we interpreted the analysis correctly CADRES is using two different data sets here. In essence you are comparing gooseberries with breadfruits.

Think aca did not know that…she like that…..weird.

@Independent

There is too much at stake not to be calculating in the messages the government wants to send. In fact it runs counter to PM Stuart’s style. Frankly it is all a little confusing.

@David
“Frankly it is all a little confusing”

That sums up the DLP’s political operations since the illness of Thompson.

Day three and no press release, response, or talking point from the ruling party.Well well.

I had planned to let the Dems self destruct on this thread but the Dems are so unbelievable, I had to add my little piece.

In 2008, they laughed at the Boxhill poll which showed the BLP in the lead, they regalled the Wickham poll, now all of a sudden they are tearing down Wickham. Polls dont vote, Mr 5 and 10 say. But wait under which rock he now crawl from, he was in hiding and silent for months and we were not hearing him…we had to clean up the mess. Was he travelling?

The BLP needs to take lessons from the poll and get to work on the weak areas highlighted in the data. The Dems are going to left this country in such a mess that it is going to take a great deal to put right. What they would need to do is to bring all the facts and sordid details to the public and let them know what MESS they inherit.

It does not matter whether Stuart is leading the party or not, a change in leadership will make no difference at this late stage because the main concern is the economy.

Chris Sinckler is the Minister of Finance and is responsible for the economy who we seldom hear from these days since the plot was exposed. It requires someone that the public and investors can have confidence in and none of the Dems fit that bill.

We know that they are borrowing money, we do not know how much or what it is being used for. We know know that they are using million from NIS without any accountability. In other words, we need a leader that we can have confidence in and who can get us out of this mire and put some smiles back on the faces of Barbadians.

What a sad sad day in the life of politics.When we have to lie and set about on a strategy to deceive and discredit the truth..and with it a son of the soil reputation.Ac ..now I see what perception and truth is all above .So much for Caravell …But guess what people not as daft as you think…..the word on the street confirmed by a poll means one thing in my books..ONE TERM…lie cheat..steal its all there….
Wilderness baby…..deserving it more each day….words marked!

@Prodigal

No! prodigal Mr. Wickham states that leadership is of preference by barbadians and next economy that is why there is a window of opportunity being given to the DLP by wickham which shows that that the BLP only have a 38% chance of winning however in order for them to win the leader must be change. also in the projected numbers it is interesting to see that if stuar was removed it would be almost a dead heat between chris and OSA which in time with chris being seen as the most likable would erode some of OSA numbers not forgetting that the youth vote would also come into play in favour of Sinckler so let the games begin it ain’t over till it;s over.

Wait this nonsense still going on led by one ac the jester………..ummm
Trying to discredit Wickham’s polls ..wish you all luck….why don’t you give Arthur a call ..asking how foolish he feels after having to ..back peddling while Wickham squash his ass all over Brass Tacks…Fools Circus.. I call it…plain for all to see….Discredit a polls ..that successfully predicts the outcome of every elections within the Caribbean…..you daff-o-dills..lol.

Balance’s comments were based on a report of a little boy saying on radio that Errol Barrow gave his blood to win independence for Barbados, if you did not understand the above extract.

Bearing that in mind, balance’s statement is a fair comment. Who would have told a young boy that Barrow gave his blood to gain independence for Barbados? How could a sane educated adult indoctrinate a young man with such a lie.

Understand the context before you condemn.

does a poll swing left or right depending on the questions asked, and the structure of those questions? Can one carry out another poll tomorrow and receive an opposite result?