Electorate Ready and Waiting Thompson

I want to assure the DLP that the next election will come and it will go. Low income Barbadians will be living in their hardwood houses.  The BLP will be returned to office and they will still be out there shouting “Hardwood”.

The PNM in Trinidad won their election against the issue of high food prices and the BLP is confident that they can do the same. Why? Barbadians are now in touch via technology with all the major news channels around the world. They are aware of the fact that increasing food prices is a challenge facing both developed and developing countries. They know that in England a loaf of bread moved from 59p to 150p in just six months. In the USA and Canada food prices have also shot up. In fact, what you are seeing globally with respect to the high cost of living is an example of the dynamics of the international capital market in responding to the high global demand for goods and services. 

These are matters that are now being easily discussed and handled among first year economic students at UWI. They know that there is nothing political about it at all. The problem facing the DLP, not Barbados, is that due to Thompson’s lack of ability to grasp even the basic economic concepts has resulted in his failure to impart knowledge and to help guide his party colleagues into making public pronouncements of any substance. By the time you combined kellmonomics, estwicknomics and thompsonomics the results is the cacophony of nonsense that passes for serious economic discourse within the DLP. 

On the issue of Hardwood it is not the BLP who stands to lose from this debate. It is not our backs that are against the wall. With or without this debate there will be an election in Barbados. We have nothing to prove. It is Thompson who has to prove that there was corruption in the setting of Harwood Housing Inc. and when all the lot of long-talk is done about debating the matter only when he is ready, he better remember that the electorate, most of whom were in Queens Parks in 1994, is ready and waiting on him. That large percentage of un-decided voters, they too are ready and waiting to see the proof he said he has. If Thompson does not debate this matter his fledging political future is DEAD and if he debates it and does not prove his case he is still dead. The election is constitutionally due in mid 2008. We have the time. We are willing to wait on Thompson. If I were the Prime Minister the election date will not be announced until the no-confidence motion has been debated. So let Thompson call the shots. He gave us thirty days and he is now free to extend it. But he must be aware the public is watching and waiting.