Lashley: You’ve only got one choice

A MEMBER of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is happy that Opposition Leader Mia Mottley is comparing the DLP’s 2018 Manifesto to a “kindergarten document”.

Speaking at the launch of the Manifesto at Oistins, Christ Church, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Stephen Lashley, said that Mottley’s description of the Manifesto means that even the smallest child in Barbados can understand the document.

“So she has said, that it is a ‘kindergarten document’. You know what? That is a good thing, because she has confirmed that our document can be understood by the smallest child in Barbados and therefore we are happy, that we have a document that even the smallest child can understand,” he said.

Pulling the book from her handbag at a spot meeting at Cleavedale Road, Black Rock, St. Michael, on Wednesday night, Mottley said nothing in the document meets the current realities in this country. The Opposition Leader said it is “gobbly gook”, intended for another country, but not Barbados, adding that it was an insult to the people of Barbados.

However, Lashley said Mottley’s take on the document should show Barbadians that she may not be ready to hold the sacred office of Prime Minister of Barbados.

“Even if we had any sight on the Barbados Labour Party Manifesto, we would be ashamed to come and tell you that we are leaking it. ‘There is nothing in there that we should be proud about, nothing whatsoever’, so they say, namely Mia Amor Mottley. She boldly held up a document and said ‘oh I got it’. You know there is something in Barbados that we can still relate to, and we relate to that word called being a statesman. No statesman, or stateslady (sic) would do those kind of underhanded tricks.

“If you are going to do that, it just confirms in our mind that you are unfit to ever hold the sacred office of Prime Minister of Barbados. Totally unfit and when you put that kind of short-handed behaviour, short-sightedness and you put Mia Mottley and put her next to somebody like Freundel Stuart; when you put the two of them together based on that kind of behaviour, then you know you’ve only got one choice,” Lashley said. (AH)