@ Pollster

The word is that there was some infiltration of his staff, which fits with the anomalies that showed up in St. Philip South and St. Andrew in the poll that was published on Sunday.

Word is that it the Sunday numbers had not a single person voting for the BLP among the 36 persons “questioned” in St. Philip South. It also had the DLP overwhelmingly winning Orange Hill, which is BLP stronghold.

So if the infiltration story is true, Peter Wickham has every right to fire their backsides.

@ Pollster

Wickham moved quickly to restore his credibility when he spotted the problems with the first poll by doing the second poll at his own expense.

I believe he had to go ahead and publish the Sunday poll to meet his contractual obligations with the Nation.

He will take a hit for sure, but it would have been far worse had he not done the second poll and then the results on Friday morning would make him look incompetent.

I cannot say it enough that Peter Wickham had every right to fire the scoundrels who set out to undermine his credibility, his business and his livelihood.

@Observing

I totally agree with you on the poll. Much of it made no sense to me.

What impact do you think tomorrow night’s big reveal on Donville Inniss will have? The nature of the revelations will no doubt be devastating.

The details on BU are sordid indeed and the Bees intend to make full use of the case where the 14-year old girl was raped. They have the copy of the summons from the Virginia Court served to Donville’s address in Barbados.

My feeling is that this will have a big impact and could knock out some of the seats that might otherwise be unassailable.

Tell me Why please get real an ex PM and leader of Her Majesty’s’s loyal opposition writes a note like that to his opposite number in GOB and you talking rubbish about giving away a big able woman?
YOU NEED TO BE MORE ANALYTICAL MY FRIEND.

The note is more political scampishness all in an effort to deceive the taxpayers.

Just Asking !!

I’ll refer you to Miller above re. the substance of my note. AFAIRecall I never claimed that Hal Gollop relayed the note. I don’t know or even care. What I was conjecturing totally from the note itself, was that it did not, in any way, state what FS and the DLP platform was trying to push for the past month or so, i.e. that the subject of the note was Owen Arthur’s volunteering to give Mottley to FS but was instead a note whose main thrust was a discussion to help FS in his battles with the Eager 11. In that regard I tend to see the logic in the post above that the note was actually sent or given to FS by Arthur to assure FS that he would not join in a putative attempt by the Eager 11 to pass a vote of no-confidence against him.

Indeed, if that is really so, it reconfirms my confidence in Arthur’s judgement as he would have recognized even from then that FS as PM would have been a better asset to the BLP’s future in regard to FS’ predeliction for doing the wrong things, than to have a much more astute CS or Donville or Estwick leading the DLP.

In addition it would underline the total lack of integrity of FS who would knowingly use a friendly (for a politician) note that was sent to him confirming that OSA would not join the eager 11’s vote of no confidence, to try to impugn OSA’s integrity now. But of course that is par for the course for FS. The worst or second worst PM in Barbados’ history, vying only with DT in that regard.

In addition I did not write an article. All I did was write a normal post to BU in another blog (AFAIK it is still there) and unknown to me David elevated it to a this topic of its own for his purposes. I had nothing to do with that.

Not guilty me lud.

Observing;
Will join you soon on the Election constituency guessing threads. Thats where the remainder of the action over the next 2 days should be.

@Checkit-Out

Arthur is reported in the Nation today that he did send the note by Hal Gollop.

I keep saying that the DLP consultants appear to be yard fowls. So what you end up with is an echo chamber where no one can recognise the folly they are practising. No one is there to counsel the others to come back to reality.

They decided to pull the lion’s tail and not only loses big on that issue in question, but have provoked the BLP into responding in kind.

The Donville Inniss scandal has far more potential to be devastating to the DLP’s chances in the election.

It seems Donville tugged the lion’s tail. Duguid is going after him in a special way with the info which was posted on BU a few weeks ago. Can Inniss withstand the onslaught? What should be clear to Inniss now is that any hopes of leading the DLP has been squashed by this skeleton.

@david
Donville’s difficulty is that he never came out and rebutted or clarified anything in the way he so eagerly did with the Kingsland hospital plan. He’s now a deer in headlights waiting for the truck to roll over him.

Damaging information online or on a blog is one thing. Damaging information on a platform before the midweek papers and 30 hours before the election in a close race is another.

Duguid will also have “blood” in his eyes given the recent parliament theatre.

Just Observing

@david
Once again the power of new media has been underestimated. Donville’s press conferences and statements have at most 200 hits on youtube. “Donville telling lies” is at 2,000 plus hits.

Go figure.

Just Observing

If what appears to me is fact then Freundel Stuart is the most ungrateful politico I have come across.Talk about biting the hand that feed you?Here’s a perfect example of OSA confirming in writing that neither he nor his Parliamentary group would join the Eager11 in removing Stuart as PM and this innuendo is Stuart’s repayment of that huge favour.What treachery!What villany!What scampishness!

@Observing(…)

You should checkout the nasty David Thompson’ Barney Lynch YouTube video, it is up to 9000 views.

@David
They still have to come good to top duguid’s “cah ya mudda scunt!” lol

28,000 one way and 32,000 the next!

Sleepy’s kick dem out – 4000 and counting

Social media rocks!!!

@DavidB
You got there before me. A four week ol opposition change in power similar to Thompson -Mascoll of 2006…versus…a 1 week old bald pooch cat.

Game on!!!

Just Observing

Both St. James South and St. Michael North-West are extremely marginal constituencies with prominent incumbent ministers running against newcomers.

The question is whether the advantage of incumbency can be overcome by the negatives against Sinckler and Inniss. My gut feeling is that sufficient votes can move to allow the two newcomers to ease home by a few votes.

I recognize that some women think that somehow Mia should have been treated differently.

But it is unlikely that many votes will change at this stage unless it is something dramatic like the DI pornography scandal or the shocking bald pooch cat attack on Ms. Fowler.

Check how the note is being discussed on the social media and you will see that many see it as either unimportant or as showing that Owen saved Freundel from a no-confidence motion.

I think we may be underestimating the impact of Chis Sinckler’s attack on Mrs. Fowler.

When you hear young first time male voters make the simple and profound statement, “But, my mother is a woman” you know that there is a pretty big undercurrent to this issue.

@Observing(…)

The DLPites don’t want to read this but the BLP ground game and using relevant communication blasts is superior.

Here is another example: Since Sunday Jimmy Serrao and Owen Arthur have sent out (3) communication pieces to BLP website subscribers. Not one similar communication from the DLP.

you men think that NOTE does not carry any weight ,ASK NOW! they all geared up to show OSA who is the real leader of the BLP and fuh sure it won’t” be HIM after THURSDAY.

The BLP fell on their own sword…the greedy overthrow of Mia was always going to sit badly ….OSA took the hit for it and consequently his party….should be interesting to see how Roebuck street deals with the fallen leader….and that eager 11 scenario, fabricated by the BLP to destabilize the DLP….as I suspect t he note about OSA wanting to rid himself of Mia was…politics is a game of seizing opportunities and OSA seized the leadership but did not anticipate the outcome in 2013… He forgot that MAM would employ her own tactics….Plus they appeared too eager for power always a sCary sign…then the2nd poll created to bolster sagging fortunes by influencing voters brought the opposite reaction….the voters weighed the options and chose to stick with the DEMS in spite of all the hardships….