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I have always disgreed with u. On this one you are correcto! Only those who are bias and blind politically will fail to see the logic.
They want to win and win at all cost. No one wants to do what it take takes to win. They are hoping that the failures of this government alone will seal the deal. The truth is, campaigns are so radically different from running a country. U can say anything and everything u want as long as u have the money to mobilize people.
Money is something that the UWP has right now!
Kenny is a coward.
What you all want Kenny to say about crime now? he was in office trying his best, he improved the prison, he improved the police stations, he was building a forensic lad, he improved the numbers of the force, he brought in the British policemen to help in the force, he, he equipped the force with many new bikes and many other new transport. We were not satisfied, we elected a set of guys, who ran up and down the country, blaming Kenny for all the crime happening in St Lucia, promising to do better. We are paying these guys to lead the country, they are the ones,we should hear from, it does not matter what Kenny says, we did not want him in the first place. Let Lucians see what they voted for. So what will cause the demise of this government, if it is not their mistakes? Campaign or no campaign by Kenny do you think St Lucians in their right mind will ever re elect this present government? Give me one reseon (spelling) why you think they will.
The best thing for Springer and his supporters to do is to hold the government accountable for the salary we are paying them. What work they are doing? and stop concentrating on the opposition, they have no power to do anything in the country.
NO boy. Kenny also drawing big salary as opposition leader and we need to hold him accountable. He can't just seat on his fat backside and send press releases.
I am no longer comfortable fighting the government on paper.If Kenny can't or don't understand his role let him bow out now.
Mr Springer - you are a hypocrite. You have publicly declared that you are committed to the UWP party. As a matter of fact you sound like a spokesman on Taiwan for the UWP. If you are a member of the UWP, logically you would want the SLP to lose the next election. Right? If Kenny Anthony is a liability for the SLP, wouldn't you wish that he remains at the top so your party?
Springer, you fear the inevitable, SLP will win the next election and Kenny will be PM. Again! Then what are you gonna do - switch allegiance once more - hypocrite. You sound so stupid writing these senseless articles. Let us, SLP supporters, worry about what happens in our party.
Leave King right where he is for the next elections. That's what we want. We not that stupid to call for his replacement. Think about that - Mr Political Analyst.
You are right. We want King to be exactly where he is right now. First he is more likeable and approachable than Kenny. This may be just what the Dr. Ordered against a man known for his arrogrance. Kenny can't help himself. He has always shown that he knows how to politically self-destruct. Once the election come this is the first time he will be putting his foot in his mouth.
Let us be fair, it is true Kenny is opposition leader but he is not the one leading the country, you and we all know he has no power to do anything, so let us leave that talk there. What can he be accountable for? Please tell us what he should or you want him to do do?
Which WE that want King to be where he is right now?
First to begin with we in St lucia do not need any man who is just LIKABLE and APPROACHABLE, we want one who can WORK and DEVELOPE our country. When you check between Kenny and King a blind man know who is better. You must explain to me what you mean by arrogance? How can you call Kenny arrogance, when he made himself available to the press all the time, when he was leader. How many time have you heard from King about anything? Kenny opened the press to all, the opposition used that to make themselves look good, that even caused the downfall of the government. Now what we are seeing a government that is not arrogrant as you said continuing to do petty things like banning calypsos. We are also seeing less and less talk shows, There was one on radio 100 at 9 am, it vanished in cold air. That is nothing new to the uwp Compton shut down radio St Lucia, because of a talk show that was critical to his government, people tend to forget and just want to call Kenny arrogrant for calling sake. So when election time you look to see if Kenny put his foot in his mouth, to vote him or not. So what about the none performing government we have now? I take it to mean everything is about Kenny, Kenny, Kenny.
Kenny and the King are two sides of the same coin. I say bring Jeanine Compton, she seems to be the only one with the cajones to stand up and tell it like it is. Standing up to your own party takes guts and that's what she did.
Kenny and King could never the same, Kenny has proven himself, to be a worker, but in 2 1/2 years we have only seen scandal after scandal from King administration. I am not saying jeannine is not a good person, but we are to quick to praise people with little or no track record and little experience. We have no proof that Jeannine will be able to take us out of the mess that the king administration has gotten us into, she has a lot to learn still.
If those people who are talking about a 3rd party is serious, they can blow king and kenny out of the water like a dead fish.
What has Kenny proven? 9 1/2 years of lawsuits, rochalmel, cost of run, five star hotel for prisoners where guards have sex with prisoners, escape when they want, eat nice food and get round?
Under Kenny look at the number of party supporters that became instant millioners over night. Look at how when Kenny could not stop crime before the last election he begged criminals in St Lucia to "give us a chance for christmas". If this is what you call leadership then I say Bart Simpson can be PM of St Lucia to.
Who could not have enough of power and decided to revoke his own party law to become leader for life ah la fashion papa Doc. Who gave Butch Stewart all the power that cause him today to errect polls on our beach. Who gave them chinese permisison roam all over our country and competing with our own people who wanted to make a living. Who employed only SLP supporters in Step.
I can go on and on and on. I personally don't want more of the same BS.
If the person who is talking about a third party knows anything about St Lucia politics, they would realise that any third party forming now, will only make slp win with a bigger majority. That is a fact.
How many St Lucians were registered to vote after the government claim they had cleaned up the list. How many actually voted?
Give me percentages and you will understand why there is room for a 3rd way. I would also be a fool to believe that everyone who voted the UWP or SLP in the last elections are likely to vote this way again.
St Lucians are becoming politically enlightened. There is room and I agree with the person who said that it is possible. Yes we can!
Anyone who wants to be PM for life is taking a page from Castro, Kim Jong Il etc...
Denys Springer has finally found his voice. Have a look at the responses and you will understand. Nice job sir!
Please name the law suits we had from Kenny? Kenny is a lawyer, he also was a law professor so knows when to make a law suit. Every body know about rochalmel, we know slp made mistakes, as all government will make. This is not the first time or the last time that there is cost over ran on big road projects, the only difference is this time they make it a big political scene of it. The milliueum(spelling) highway had cost over ran. How can you you call a prison five star hotel just because it was built by the slp. If it is a five star hotel then you and all your family should go and live there. Let us be less emotional than that. You cannot blame Kenny if guards have sex with prisoners, slackness does happen in all prisons all over the world, i hope that this government has stopped all that. Prisoners do not escape as they wish at the new prison as they use to at the old prison. lets face it prisoners escape at all prisons. If there is so much good food, you and your
family should go there to get round as you said. That is a good thing, you should become an slp supporter to become a millioner to. Uwp is in power for more than half of their term, has they stop crime? But you wanted Kenny to stop it. You are right if King with only a high school education could be PM, then Bart Simpson could be PM to. Even though the law is changed for a leader to serve more than two terms, that is not only for Kenny. Anybody who is elected will have that chance. Kenny is elected by the people. You want to blame Kenny who is out of power for pillars that is built on the beach, then just blame him for everything bad in St Lucia and finish with that. We want the Chinese to give us their money, build us hospitals, stadium, cultural center etc, but you do not want them to roam in the island, In a democratic country like ours, competition is always healthy. I never knew anybody know where other people vote, or who support who, so cutting grass in step is so much of a big job, you have to be slp to work there. You remember Bitasion, he was the biggest uwp supporter and he was a supervisor in step, so you are so wrong there. I suppose you prefer the BS that happening now in St Lucia, because at lease with the slp there as work plus BS. But with this uwp there is BS and no work.
I am not saying that there is not room for a third party, there is room for 100 parties, we are in a democratic state. There was a time when we had more than three parties in St Lucia, but they cannot win any election in St Lucia. You remembered PLP, Shara Flood party, Peter Alexander party ask them if they could win an election in St Lucia. SLP has it support all around St Lucia which does not change much. So is uwp, the difference now is uwp is not performing so they will loss the next election.
I ask you for percentages and you are giving me spin. Elections are accounted for in percentages not fairy tales.
Had George Odlum been a more discipline leader we would not be talking about the SLP today. They won more popular votes than the SLP.
You are so bright why don't you provide the percentages. I do not have percentages , i am speaking from experience, my percentage is SLP WILL WIN THE NEXT ELECTION.
I think you are crazy, you forget Odlum was in the Labour, when they won in 1979, and if he was disciplined as you said and had not crashed the slp, uwp would the disappeared party today. UWP must thank Odlum for reviving then today. PLP only had a base in Castries, and their popular vote could not have given them victory. SLP won more seats than them.
Yes man! You'll already the next election. Remember the poll that told you'll SLP can never lose? Yeah, I am ref to the 14-3 poll. LOL
Well, that's how I know that you'll win already.
I think the campaign has started and it's gonna be a looooooooong one.
It has and as an SLP supporter I don't think it will be as easy as some of us would like to think.
I am sadden to see some of my brothers and sisters in here behaving like its going to be a cake walk.
Given the content of one of my posts an this board I thought that this view of the utter mess in California today in which the state government has to issue I.O.Us to pay for services, would indicate my view of the state of politics in St. Lucia today.
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"It takes years and years to make a mess as terrible as the California (St. Lucia) debacle, but the recipe is simple. All that you need is two political parties that are always willing to offer easy government solutions for every need of the voters, but never willing to make the tough decisions necessary to finance the government largess that results. Voters will occasionally change their allegiance from one party to the other, but the bacchanal will continue regardless of the names on the office doors."
Sounds familiar!
Those that want to see are quite aware that Kenny Anthony has no new answers to any of St. Lucia's problems, than he had in 1997-2006.
If we were to have Dr. Anthony at the helm tomorrow the first thing he would do is borrow $300 million and he would say it is to "prime pump" the economy when in fact it would be just to give jobs to the boyz and also throw money at problems with no effective planning and hoping it would go away.He as much knows the intricacies of how, why and when to prime pump an economy as he knows how to play field hockey Just as he did not know in 1997-2006.
Remember when bananas crashed. Then his agricultural ministers said the SLP/Anthony Administration was concentrating on "other crops" to replace bananas. And what happened - "other crops" fell in value by 30% during the period and St. Lucia's rural areas suffered greater and greater economic and social decline and drugs have now taken over many of those communities. These are the facts and it is so comical seeing the Kennybots writing inane nonsence about Kenny coming back just so that their tribe can be back in power.
The problem we have of St. Lucia as a community is that we are seeing our disintegration as a society but refuse to mend our ways or even admit that we have problems. This is not even a socio economic class thing as from the top to the bottom of our society we have lost our values. Even if someone today were to turn up to remind us of the values that make a society great we would roundly castigate them for being “holier than thou” and go about our destructive business.
Just as in the United States of America we are rampantly self absorbed and there is a unrelenting coarsening of our culture. Our excuse is that we are a liberal people plus with slavery playing out in our psyche we revolt against any strictures and deny any of the basic rules and regulations required for a society to succeed.
One thing that the SLP under Dr. Anthony had was that the form/facade was of a much better construct than the substance - as least compared to the present Administration. Fancy academic words, smoke and mirrors to give the impression that everything was aboveboard and working well. The reality was that insitiutions were being (and are still) gutted, the treasury was bankrupt (and still is), crime was rampant and law and order nonexistent.
One of Kenny's failings but at the same time could be a sourse of sttrength is that he went at everything at the same time. His problem is that he had no idea with regard to prioritizing. Sometimes he paid as much attention to item # 99 as item #2.
The author identifies this problem of an inability to prioritize. Unfortunately this is also his failings as a manager and why in the future he will be as unable to lead as he was in 1997 -2006.
Add to that the arrogance and the tendancy of 3rd World despots to "get back" at their opponents and we have a recipe for disaster.
Apparently the candidate in the 2006 Elections for the Laborie seat for the United Workers Party by the name of Donatus St. Aimee and now the Ambassador to the UN for St. Lucia, met Kenny Anthony when the SLP Leader and Leader of the Opposition, was up in New York.
Kenny goes to New York, does not make any attempt to meet the St. Lucian Ambassador in his official capacity but the former UWP candidate finds himself at a SLP function to meet the Leader of the SLP.
Isn’t this the same SLP that issued a Press Release outlining egregious situations with regard to St. Aimee ?
With friends and ex-candidates like this it is obvious why the United Workers Party has so much problems making a good case for itself.
The one before the last, attempted to list all the problems of Dr Anthony, I would also like him to list all the good things Dr Anthony did for St Lucia, because no government will not makes mistakes. He even play fortune teller by saying the first thing Dr Anthony will do upon returning to office is to borrow $300 million, to create jobs for the boys, i do not know what he mean by that, because this government created jobs for both the girls and the boys eg Shara Flood, Hepples, every losing candidate have a ministry or a big job. What he fail to tell us is the present government have also borrowed almost $300 million themselves, i suppose that is alright for them to do in his book, it just should not be done by Dr Anthony. In the last sitting of the house they borrowed $250 million one time, that is on top of all what they had borrowed before. I want ton ask the writer where will a government got money, in that hard economic time to develope the country?
Will it fall from the sky? The main thing is having a good program in place to service these loans. He even said the treasury was empty, that is far from the truth because there was never a problems in paying the workers, or servicing the loans he spoke about. This person forget we have a government in St Lucia today, i want to ask him name the good things they are doing.
I'm voting in-between, there have got to be a different choice.
Me, too. I am voting between them two monsters called the UWP and SLP. I am too young for all these roros of What Kenny do and what King don't do.
Kick them both out.
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