@checkit-out

Noted

@Yardbroom

Thanks!

If the two political parties are smart they will use the on the street rum shop type feedback to their advantage.

@check-it-out & David
The DLP are years behind in their online campaign and messaging. Add that to their muddled physical and real world messaging and you can see they have a problem. Their profiles havent been updated, their site is updated once in a blue moon, their facebook page leaves alot to be desired (so does the BLP by the way) and their blog hasn’t been active in 3+ years. To the BLP’s credit at least they are keeping their main site up, alive, and teeming with current information and video.

Good luck getting DLP politicians (except Kellman and maybe Irene) to interact or even post credible information online. Says alot in this day and age, doesn’t it.

Advantage – BLP big time.

@ David
How long before these politicians make use of this excellent opportunity to score valuable points in this public forum via this wonderful brain child by you n Check-it ?Unlike guessing Hammie’s beliefs… Onions is not a politician…but even a blind man can see the VAST OPPORTUNITY that is being afforded… placed at the disposal these men and women. Here is a once in a lifetime chance for both BLP and DLP candidates to score big on elocution, correct any misinformation and increasing their portion of the voters count on each own little thread (SJN). And adequately doing so, ( even protected by anonymity ) now they may have extra time before the election bell. Where is the vision ?

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@observing & onions

The relevant parties on both sides have been informed. Give it time!

The benefit of BU is the opportunity to not only clarify which will help to shape the political conversation on BU but to bounce and test ideas strategies on a very politically savvy BU population. No bull no BS.

Come elections … some OLe lethargic sheep…going get their SHARE

@DAvid
Another addition you can soon use is a “ticker” or bar or row which tracks the safe seats and the toss up seats for each side based on the views of bloggers and even your personal opinion. Should make for some interesting numbers and shifts as current events continue to play out.

go figure, Sinckler comes out gunning today to dismiss Mascoll’s assertions about the 183 million but says nothing about UWI fees owed or the Auditor General’s report or the 117% D to GDP that turned into 7- something % on account of domestic borrowing. . Communication of convenience I say. There is a more aware and informed.electorate that is being taken for granted.

Game on.

Welcome to this thread Irene Sandiford Garner.

Remain steadfast and do not be distracted the good people of St. Andrew will help you rid that constituency of the PAIN they endured since 1991.

Fractured
Since when you could steady anything far less anybody…..ya know the good Book says be wary of those giving false hopes…..as for Georgie D man sitting firm like a Rooster…..and not like a palin cock of yonders

@observing

The Senator maybe new to this page but not new to the blog. You are correct that she must be commended, it takes some courage given the robust nature of discourse.

Your earlier suggestion is noted.

“The other political parties – People Empowerment Party (PEP) and People Democratic Congress) PDC – have not been able to offer a credible third party option”

David,

While the PDC cannot speak for the PEP but only for ourselves at this time, let us again tell many Barbadians, via this medium, that we are in this political business of the people of Barbados for the long haul.

We have thought from the start that it would take a reasonable period of time for us to develop into a force to be reckoned with, within the main stream of the political society of Barbados.

Moreover, we will continue to encourage, ensure and grow support for this party among esp. the very politically conscious, people focussed and purposely steeled of the masses and middle classes of this country.

We have the political resolve and maturity to understand and accept this position.

But, as we have previously said on this blog we have recognized that greater and greater numbers of Barbadians are indeed so sick, tired, frustrated and fed up with these two old discredited DLP/BLP factions, that some of them and many more people than before are crying out that they must be permanently removed from the political landscape of this country.

For, not only have they been destroying many of the cherished affairs, hopes and dreams of the Barbadian people, but they have also for a long time been demonstrating no political vision, no political perspicacity, and have been evolving no bold and exciting people nation building strategies for helping to thrust this country onto a higher stage of wholistic development.

Certainly, in the fundamental social human interest of the Barbadian people, the DLP and BLP must be put back into a state of non-existence – exactly were they better belong!!

Anyhow, in any circumstance where many of the commenters and readers of many comments and posts on this blog site may have missed this one, there has been the formation of another party in Barbados: The New Barbados Kingdom Alliance led apparently by Mr. Lynroy Scantlebury.

We commend the members of this party for taking the opportunity to form this party – which many other citizens also have the opportunity to do – and we say to them that they too must be prepared to politically dig in for the many battles that lie ahead.

So, David, we would have wished that by now you would have long understood that we are helping in the building of a serious political culture – which can also be made up of any number of serious parties – but a serious political culture that will eventually not have as its main critical reference point the outdated DLP and BLP; and we would have wished that by now that you would have known that by simply saying that we have not offered a credible alternative will not in the slightest way deter us and many other people from moving onto a higher stage of existence – beyond the decadent corrupt DLP and BLP.

Would you not also help the people get there???

So long.

PDC

Stupse and that is how the Senator enters the fray–blackguarding?

David; re. your 9:13 pm post where you said:
PDC; You have to get out there and connect with the people by delivering a message that resonates.

The PDC has been delivering one standard message on BU for several months now. That message appears to be “Both the DLP and BLP have failed barbados badly, both are corrupt, both are incapable of leading Barbados in these times that require a different vision and a new political leadershop that is competent, honest, hard working and forward looking.

That message has apparently not resonated with the BU family as far as I can see and there are several reasons why it hasn’t.

I wonder if our regular and irregular BU posters could suggest if that message itself has the potential to actually resonate with the Barbadian public and if so what has to be done to package it to resonate and start a trend that would allow our political system to once again move Barbados rapidly forward. I know Bushtea will propose his Cooperative model. But could someone outline a strategy that could realistically result in a drastic improvement of the political model under which we operate here in a relatively short time frame?

The Tea Party movement in the USA is perhaps an example of a flawed but demographically attractive message that resonated with a large chunk of the US body politic and appears to have borne some fruit in a short space of time. Are there lessons that could be learned from that model and how it was and is being executed in the USA that could assist us in turning around Barbados, if it indeed needs turning around?

David; I think that when the bell rings the politicians on both sides will have no option but to use the opportunity provided to them to get a few votes (and even one vote is of importance) by dropping in to the BU election rumshop and putting his or her case.

Your posting of the affidavit in the case involving Cheltenham and Leroy Parris and others seems to be a small window into what is possibly a previously unheard of role for the blogs sector of the social media. Of course it might also spell some danger too as the money people are not likely to play dead in a situation where their credibility is seriously threatened. That affidavit exposes the dirtiness in the system for all to see.

Its early days yet.

There is an obvious swing against the Gov. If it is greater than 3% the DLP will definitely lose the next general election. They have in no way tackled the problem of INFLATION and the Economy in general. They have spent all their time and energies criticizing the B.L.P., rather than getting on with the business of advancing this country.

Look wunna political lackeys Senator garner ain’t got no time fun wunna she busy stategising plan to lick some holes in Back Stabber George payne back BTW Senator don’;t fuget to mention OSA in yuh plan of attack . “INTEGRITY ” is the word people say they tired of the crap ,

@!

Time will confirm if you are correct but voters will go for the feel good factor. Many remember that they had it under the BLP. The fact that there is an economic recession may resonate with some but the reality here is that they will be a national swing, we don’t know by what %. Based on the % swing it will take out marginal seats. Whether the incumbents are doing good work maybe irrelevant.

The question is if the BLP will contract CHAPPO to do a poll given their relationship with Peter Wickham.

Does the private sector have confidence in this government?

During the earlier years of this administration, Andy Armstrong, president of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce, was seemingly an ardent supporter of their policies, and would endorse and articulate them, in whatever forum he was in. Recently, he has been critical, not upfront, but innuendo.
However, based on the views coming from the manufacturing and tourism sectors, I am of the opinion that the private sector’s confidence in this administration is fading.

“Recession or not, the government is doing what it HAS to do.”

Well said. Let’s move the argument past what a government is expected and obligated to do and dig into what they promised and pledged to do; criticised the past government of not doing; and accused the past government of doing wrongly. Therein lies the vote swayer.

@!
Can you point me to any economic or financial policies of this government that has helped ALL Barbadians? And while you’re at it, which policies stabilised the economy? This would be a nice debate point since the same said things you glorify at the macro level may be the same said anchor that weighs you down in the polling booth.

Just observing

David and Check it out,

Thanks for your above commentaries.

But we know that the majority of people submitting views on here are mature people and stiffen in many of their views and types of crosss interactions and are either for the DLP/BLP.

We have even met or already know some of these people like CCC, Tell Me Why, Ian Bourne, etc.

So that even though we expect that there will NOT be many visibly supportive comments by many commenters on here in response to our messages, we know that these messages are greatly resonating in their hearts and souls even when many of these people are supposedly committed to this joke political system in Barbados.

But the question remains – how can you all assist the broad masses and middle classes in dispensing with ot ousting these two discredited parties

PDC

@ David

The PM was clever enough to see that the sole intention of the Opposition in creating the Eager 11 hoax was to prime the PM into wholesale firing within his Cabinet, with the attendant consequences. Look at the difference between Tillman Thomas and PM Stuart.

Every action has an opposite and equal reaction, something PM Stuart appreciates and PM Thomas does not. That notwithstanding be assured the PM Stuart’s refusal to fire any of the Eager 11 Cabinet members is not rooted in political survival but more importantly in keeping Barbados stable as he knows that growth with live along instability.

@Rodney
were it a hoax, could you explain Sinckler’s interview?
Also, firing ministers is a last resort. Explaining that there are differences in opinion (as any mature group would have) and that as a mature, responsible and forward thinking government we have ironed them out complete would have been a far better strategic move. Instead, we have as David said the perception, the silence, the knowledge of discontent and “rifts” and an uncertainty as to candidates being able to depend on national momemtum to help them in their seats.

Silence is sometimes golden but it can also be a golden anchor.

As for Tilman he’s even drier and less inspiring than Freundel. Only a matter of time

Owen Arthur = tried, tested & proven but you have to take him, warts and all.
Freundel Stuart = trying, committed and honest but you have to take him, slow as he is or people make him out to be.

What a choice, what a contest. All those who think this is a done deal have not been around politics long enough or if they have, have not been paying due attention.