Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Leader of the opposition refutes suggestions that he has agreed to resign

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6 comments:

LuciaBoy said...

King is right it is not for him to resign it is for the party in concert with the majority of the UWP members in parliament to determine his fate as LOO.

Thus if he loses the majority support his goose is cooked as LOO. There seems to be a deliberate attempt by some to misrepresent what is taking place in the UWP camp as a vendetta, war, call it what you may, against King. That false narrative is fuelled by Chastanet haters who refuse to accept that this whole saga came about from a pattern of behaviour of King and particular Frederick who refuse to accept the results of the leadership elections.

I hold no brief for Chastanet and I cannot vouch for his leadership acumen but I can tell you one thing all elections have consequences it is how you navigate, negotiate, and deal with these consequences that separates the men from the boys.

King had it coming for him he failed to assert leadership as PM and as party leader when he had the opportunity I recall one of my pervious articles when I said presciently that he would rue the day when he lost it all. While I would hate to see it come to pass no one can doubt that he certainly has a part to play in his demise if it does.

Nobody wants to take responsibility for their actions and when they have sycophanths and others who want to use him to create discord out of dishonorable motivation they miscalculate badly.

King had one last chance to distinguish himself as a savy, politician and he once again blew it. Here's the advice he should have been given: In the interim go along to get along, keep you nose clean, continue your winning legacy, read voraciously or get a degree, perhaps get mentorship from other Caribbean politicians with whom presumably you cultivated friendships or professional contacts with, reestablish your bona fides with party leadership and the delegates, burnish your national presence by opining intelligently on the issues of state, present yourself as being worthy of carrying the mantle of your party in parliament, bide your time while you give Chastanet ample time to fail if he is so predisposed and voila!

January 21, 2014 at 11:06 AM
Anonymous said...

Lucian--------balls unwashed and smelly.

u can't keep your family together
your wife divorce u 10 yrs. ago, your children are running wild you can't keep a decent job,
yet you want to give advice to king.


January 21, 2014 at 11:58 AM
Anonymous said...

LuciaBoy, you are not making a lot of sense either.

There is a distinct separation between the party machine or vote-getting/election machine, called a party, and that part of this party, in the House which may have gained a mandate -- the power to govern legitimately.

The framers of the UWP's party betray an embarrassingly abysmal and unmistakable ignorance and naivete regarding constitutions.

It would appear that the National Youth Council delegates, in this regard would tower head and shoulders above the apparent senility of the delegates in the UWP.

The vote count takes care and makes abundantly clear this distinction.

The electoral mandate, or the power of representation given to their parliamentary representative, is not one and the same thing as that voted upon by card-carrying members of ANY party.

Only the naïve, uneducated, undereducated, the poorly educated and the abysmally stupid among us would conflate the two.

In fact, the mandate distinguishes between the party in parliament and in power, and the party (rank an file) outside of parliament.

(What a shipload of risible political immaturity is on display here!)

To continue: One has the superior power and authority leading to a mandate as granted by the wider electorate.

On the other hand, the other gives leadership recognition -- and not power, by the rank and file of the party in question, as an institution.

Chastanet has not contested any election as the party leader -- as yet. Granted the voice of the people in the general election poll, sometimes, neither the twain shall meet.

Some party leaders, sometimes, do lose their seats.

Chastanet, seemingly all deperately power-hungry might well lose his bid once again to gain a seat in the House.

After a general election, the members who were voted in after the ballot tally will, as usual, have to select, who AMONG THEMSELVES will lead the party in the House, EITHER as the Prime Minister, or as Leader of the Opposition.

A party leader, without a seat in the House, is powerLESS in terms of the government of Saint Lucia, with respect to national representative government in Saint Lucia through its ELECTED representatives.

However, only a supine and astonishingly spineless PM or Leader of the Opposition, who would be quite UNSURE of herself or himself, would behave like a veritable puppet, would tow the line, and would be subservient to an UNELECTED (outside of parliament) but selected party leader.

January 21, 2014 at 4:39 PM
Anonymous said...

WHAT A MESS. MI ROW-ROW.

January 21, 2014 at 4:48 PM
Anonymous said...

King had it coming. For all these years in Parliament, he never tried to improve himself, say, by taking a course on line, which in a day like today, is available to anyone who wishes. He is a bit lazy and unprepared for the job as PM.
There's no way with the financial stash UWP had before the last election, to have had the carpet pulled from under him. He was too naive and so was unmasked by a better prepared and hungry Labour Party.
A LESSON FOR ALL POLITICAL ASPIRANTS.
I don't care who forms the next administration, what I would like is fresh blood in both Parties. I would like to see a clean slate, new faces and better academically qualified men and women.

January 22, 2014 at 3:51 PM
Anonymous said...

We are tired of these country-bookey backward shoot-shayte politicians. These fools have noting more to offer but shoot shate. They do not have the capacity to frame any development plan for the country. These shoot shayters can only promise what they can't understand and to patch roads and bridge work.

January 23, 2014 at 6:22 AM

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