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HomeSocial CommentaryBIG WUK. SMALL WUK AND FAMALAAYYY!!!

BIG WUK. SMALL WUK AND FAMALAAYYY!!!

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By:FAIR SHARE FOR ALL

As I see it, 2015 General Elections, Team Unity brought in every single overseas to vote. The St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party was not so fortunate. Yet, Labour only lost by forty votes.
It doesn’t need a rocket scientist to figure out that if even a quarter of the overseas Labour voters come home to participate in the upcoming elections, and if all of the overseas Team Unity supporters cast their vote, Team Unity will be in serious trouble.

Anybody can figure out that if the overseas vote benefitted the present government, there would have been no need to disenfranchise them. In addition, from their many trips overseas to visit their supporters, the response to the government is not encouraging at all.
Everybody is disappointed. Everybody is bawling.

And Timothy and his cabal are aware. The reason that they can try some things with the home based electorate but the overseas vote is a lot more difficult.

So just like when PAM gave the vote to nationals living overseas because it benefitted them back in 1984, now that they believe that there is no advantage to be gained, they want to take it back.

What a government!
Then all the persons from Sandy Point who get “big wuk” since Team Unity got into power are being reminded that they should be on the campaign trail ensuring that Shawn Richards retains his seat.

They are being reminded by the prime minister of the federation, no less, that is politics give them their “big wuk” and they must never forget it.

Civil servants must hit the campaign trail to promote Team Unity. I wonder if civil servants can do the same to promote the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party.

Well Timothy had gotten his “big wuk” under Labour and not only was he campaigning against Labour since 2004, but he also took the seat that he had won under Labour and carried over by PAM and CCM.

Prior to Timothy becoming part of the Labour Party government in 1995, he lived in very humble accommodations. But a mere nine years later, he forgot how it was possible for him and who made it possible for him to be eating and drinking out of the trough.

All who used to meet secretly to plot the demise of Douglas and the Labour Party were in order. Timothy had no problem with that. Now it sounds as if he is threatening.

Douglas and the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party government never turned away ordinary civil servants just because they supported the opposition.

PAM supporters did not have to worry like how Labour supporters go to work under Team Unity expecting every day to be their last.

Because Timothy doesn’t idle with those who are not supporting him.
He makes life extremely uncomfortable for any dissenting voice.Just ask those in his inner circle why they have all fled the inner circle.

What a prime minister!

So we in Labour have to continue to do our work. Unity must not be the only one hitting the campaign trail.

If we listen to Timothy carefully, he doesn’t sound like the Timothy of 2015.
The electorate has seen him and the rest of Team Unity in action and we are not impressed. All that he promised to do he has not done.
No good governance. No freedom of information. No transparency. No crime control.
In fact, the government has now resorted to preventing the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party from using the community centres to hold a Town Hall meeting.

A government can’t get any more desperate than that.
If the government is so strong and popular, they should be more than willing to allow the opposition the use of all the community centres.

But this is not 2015. And people have had the opportunity to compare and contrast. Compare and contrast Douglas with Harris. Compare and contrast the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party with Team Unity.

And while Douglas and Labour were not perfect, we never had these scandals during our tenure in office.

In fact, all the scandals that Labour had while in office involved Timothy in one way or the other.

So the electorate has a decision to make. A decision to choose the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party whenever the early elections are called.

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