OPEN LETTER TO LICK MOUT LOU

Lick Mout Lou in youR column in the Nation Newspaper for Wednesday, November 6, 2006 you wrote Now dat David Thompson back in de position e should be in, dah party mekkin good strides. Lou, we feel that it is either that you are not as informed as you should be or in Parliamentary parlance you were deliberately misleading the house. The house to the left of the rum shop opposite the standpipe that is.

But Lou we do not know you to conceal information from your standpipe friends so we would accept that you are honestly unaware that the infighting within the DLP is far far from finished and that rather than good strides being made, some good blows and falling outs are taking place. To put it properly the political haemorrhaging within the DLP continues unabated.

Clearly Lou, you are not aware that in the space of three weeks a number of serious incidences occurred, which has placed further strain on the already fickle marriages of convenience within the DLP family. Why were you not told about the cuss-out between Thompson and Rice-Bowen that almost came to blows at DLP headquarters and which has now led to the rupture of a relationship that was once referred to as A a match made in heaven@ ? Who could have been so tardy in not telling you about the resignations from the party including two of the candidates from the last election?

 

And Lou, we deem it gross negligence on the part of your informants not to have informed you that Phillip Greaves and Thompson are now Barbados’ newest strange bedfellows following some unpleasant exchanges. No excuse can be offered to you Lou for not being told that recently George Street was the place to witness one of Barbados’ traditional forms of a village fighting. It was a disturbing sight – Rocks pelted left right and center and people only scampering for dear lives.

 

Lou, we felt obligated to tell you about these things since, firstly, they run counter to what you were led to believe was happening within the DLP and secondly, they reflect the real state of affairs. That the only recognized opposition party in Barbados is about to implode once again heightens the fear of Barbadians that the DLP is losing their political relevance thus erasing forever the highly significantly contribution of the late Right Excellent Errol Barrow.

 

That the DLP’ s current leadership has detached itself from Barrow’ s philosophy is bad enough but to allow the party to go under is unpardonable. Can anyone imagine a debate in our Parliament with on a development strategy for Barbados, with Mr. Barrow’ s present and not participating? Unheard of! He was far too serious a politician to be accused of negligence. Yet Thompson, a man with little to rely on between his ears has been allowed to walk proudly in and out of George Street without explaining to the party’ s membership why Barbados was not privy to his views, however slight they might have been on our draft National Strategic Plan.

 

His none-performance in the debate was matched by his performance on the election day of 1994 when he was allegedly busy arranging deals for the sale of land at Bushy Park and Royal Westmoreland instead of looking after his party’ s business and the interest of Barbadians as a whole.

 

Lou, just in case you were thinking about it we think we should let you know that trying to sell Thompson is like selling a drivers license to the visually impaired.

 

 

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