On Leadership

After years of brain-washing the Barbadian public that the Dems are not ready, particularly because they lack leadership, Arthur happily called a short span, sudden election. This election, called during our most sacred celebration, was meant to capitalise on Thompson's so-called incapacity to lead, as well as to catch him unprepared, a lethal combination which Arthur calculated would utterly expose Thompson as weak and incompetent and enable himself to win a 4th term. What actually transpired, was the absolute opposite and Arthur, as we Bajans like to say: ‘get a big rock' because his sinister little plan backfired.

 

Instead, during this period we have seen the Dems, under the exemplary leadership of Mr Thompson launch a focused, solid and extraordinary campaign, the likes of which Barbados has never seen before. In fact, the DLP has shown such innovation, great planning and general readiness for this election, one would think it was the Dems that called it. The Dems have out shone the BLP at every turn, forcing the BLP to constantly play catch up and to have to resort to mimicking them, therefore showing the Dems to be the proactive force here. All of this begs the question, who is really in charge here and what does this say about leadership, which Arthur maintains, is the most critical issue in this election.

 

Let us therefore judge leadership:

 

(1) Thompson inherited a divided DLP which the various political scientist seemed to have pronounced dead over the last years. He nonetheless has managed not only to do the impossible by uniting this party, but also, by raising it from the dead. With this resuscitated DLP, Thompson has selected a team of respectable, successful, decent men and women who show an integrity and determination to serve the people in a re-democratised Barbados.

 

(2) Thompson has been the initiator in this election with his unprecedented campaign eg. the use of the most magnificent charge sheet; bill boards etc. all of which left the BLP scampering for ideas.  In fact, it took the Dems leadership on how to effectively use a newspaper and television ad campaign before the Bees gained any momentum in this election that they themselves called. The Dems launched their manifesto first which really made one wonder what the BLP, who called the elections were doing. Needless to say, the Dems just hit them for another six when they launched their youth manifesto and alas, by keeping it as a dark horse did not give the BLP time to be able to duplicate this one. So Barbados, who is leading who? It looks like them big fashion BLPs who always pompasetting about leadership are nothing but followers themselves.

 

All those people who have repeatedly stated that the Dems are not ready to lead, definitely need to wise up, the country NEEDS a change of government and Thompson and the DLP have more than demonstrated that they are indeed a viable, competent alternative. In fact, every since the day Thompson declared that as far as he is concerned, Parliament has been dissolved, he has demonstrated DAILY, that he and his team are ready, willing and MOST ABLE!!

 

It is now left to Barbadians who have been repeatedly described as one of the most mature and well informed electorates on the planet, to change this government and wipe that cocky, arrogant smirk off of the faces of this wasteful, uncaring, cold-hearted, dictatorial government.

 

For the past years this BLP government has literally thrown away taxpayers hard earned money, because this heartless government which dears to mention the 8% cut that Sandi promised would be reimbursed when the country stabilised, has been killing us with a daily, minute by minute 15% vat which we will NEVER get back, coupled with outrageous tariffs, income taxes etc. This government, after squeezing these taxes out of us has given away our money: (a) in costs overruns on various projects (b) in ridiculous projects like the Greenland landfill, where they essentially filled the land with millions of dollars (c) by closing down the St. Joseph hospital after taxpayers money had just been spent refurbishing it (d) by in this age of technological advancements, mismanaging the QEH and turning what use to be a premier hospital into a farce and unfortunately, the list goes on and on.

 

And Arthur is claiming we only want change for the sake of change. Is he for real, this is not about making history with a 4th term, this is about meeting the needs of the Barbadian electorate. The BLP's record is far from what they are claiming. Barbados today is tantamount to a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech here, this is in NO WAY a democracy. The public know only too well that people here now speak in whispers because if they openly criticise this government, they run the risk of losing their little pick and such like. Many Barbadians cannot afford a piece of the rock, land and houses are OUT OF OUR PRICE RANGE, yet Arthur brags that foreigners are buying houses here so that they can live in Barbados for part of each year and he is proud of that. Proud of the fact that Barbadians who live here all the time can't get homes, but foreigners can shut up houses for most of the year and come down here during the winter.

 

All of this, is evidence of POOR leadership, of OUT OF CONTROL, COLD- HEARTED leadership. We the people of Barbados have the power to put a stop to this once and for ALL. The only way to do so is to: VOTE  DLP!!

 

 

 
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