DEMs ready for third term
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is confident that Thursday night will finally reveal “who is who and what is what”.
He said that based on the trends he has seen across this country, the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) will be “washed out” by the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) in the general election.
“A lot of them on Thursday night are going to experience apoplectic attacks,” he told supporters at Thorpes, during the DLP St. James South National Meeting on Sunday night.
“I have heard all the talk for the last few years that the DEMs can’t get one seat. That we are going to get wiped out and all that is required is the ringing of the bell. Well, the bell has been rung now and the sleeping giant, which is the Democratic Labour Party, has been awaken. And they will see next Thursday night – what is what and who is who.”
Stuart, who is also the candidate for St. Michael South, recalled that since the DLP took office in 2008 until this day, they have had to put up with the “obstructiveness politics” of the Barbados Labour Party.
“We had to put up with the politics of despondency; the politics of alarm; the politics of distress… Everything in Barbados, according to them, was going wrong because the Democratic Labour Party was in office.
“And they were calling for an election for the past ten years. Well they have the election now and according to one of the founders of the Democratic Labour Party, the late James Cameron Tudor, ‘When God wants to punish us, he answers our prayers,’ because we are always praying for the wrong thing. And the Barbados Labour Party will find in this election, that they would have been better off if we didn’t have it because at least they would have continued to be a parliamentary opposition, with a few seats in Parliament,” he pointed out.
The Prime Minister also shared with supporters that the DLP Manifesto highlights the gains they have impressively registered between 2008 and 2018. Moreover, he assured them that the 30 candidates are people of character, people of integrity, “people whose journey is consistent with the journey conceptualised and conceived by the Democratic Labour Party when it was formed”.
“A journey which is also consistent with yours and a journey that is only out of touch with any journey based on anybody’s bloodline,” he added. (TL)