PM: DON’T INSULT OUR INTELLIGENCE

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is urging Barbadians to reject “politics of cynicism”.

He described it as “dangerous” and declared that Barbados will be worst off, if ever given the chance to prevail.

Addressing the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Christ Church East Political Meeting on Friday night at Parish Land, he told supporters that the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has been up to all of its old tricks.

“Having said that Barbados is in the poorest state that it has ever been in, since Universal Adult Suffrage or since Independence, the Barbados Labour Party is now coming to give the impression to the people, that the same Barbados that is on its knees, can afford all the give-aways that they are promising.

“Mia Mottley has stood up in the House of Assembly on many occasions and said that the problem with Barbados is that we are running a government that we cannot afford. And although we can’t afford it, according to her, she is now coming with measures that would require us to spend even more than is being spent now. But, spending more by earning less,” he pointed out.

“And to suggest that Barbados is on its knees financially in one breath, but then come to the people of Barbados and say that you are going to take away what it is that makes it possible for Barbados to pay its bills and to continue to employ people in the public service and so on. You are going to repeal all the important taxes that earn revenue, while at the same time increasing the expenditure of the government on a multiplicity of services – something is fundamentally wrong with that... And it presumes that the people of Barbados can’t think… It is insult to intelligence of the people of Barbados.”

Speaking in support of the Christ Church East candidate, the Prime Minister admitted that he had to empathise and sympathise with Dr. Denis Lowe, stating that he has been so “badly politically slandered by ... the Barbados Labour Party”.

Stuart, who is also the candidate for St. Michael South, was referring to rumours about the state of Dr. Lowe’s health.

“If what they were saying was true, I am pleased to be a witness to the resurrection of Denis Lowe. Because from all that they were saying, he had either died or was near death… I am pleased to see that he can stand here before you and acquit himself as well as he did,” he stressed.

Moreover, the Prime Minister suggested that the BLP candidate for that constituency, Wilfred Abrahams, brings nothing to politics.

“He brings no conviction, he brings no vision of the future, he brings no philosophy… All he is committed to doing is profiling himself, letting no opportunity slip to get his name or photograph in the newspapers.

“…What we need in politics today, are men and women committed to service; men and women who want to raise the gains of the people of Barbados to new and pivotal horizons… Not people who are just interested in self profiling and building up a CV and walking around the place pushing their chest up, and giving the impression that they are important and very often more important than the people who made their opportunities possible,” Stuart said. (TL)