Glaringly dysfunctional VI Gov’t demands elections be held now—Skelton Cline
This, according to, Honestly Speaking’s, Claude O. Skelton-Cline, in pointing to a recent edict handed down by the recently elected Chairman of the ruling NDP, Honourable Myron V. Walywn (AL).
Mr Skelton-Cline was at the time addressing listeners tuned to his Tuesday, August 14, 2018, Honestly Speaking, radio programme.
Death of NDP
He posits, “we are witnessing the death and the burial of the NDP as we know it,” and justified his position saying, “imagine, receiving a letter and WhatsApp messages—as duly elected officials and founders of a party (NDP)—being asked to declare your allegiance to the new leader, Minister Myron Walwyn by a certain date, or face the alternative, whereby I will proceed without you…What gall, what dishonour.”
The former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority was adamant during his radio broadcast, “leadership by proclamation and not process, is a throw-back to colonial regimes which ignores individual and communal democratic rights.”
He suggests, “clearly the Premier, Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, has surrendered his powers to the newly elected leader of his party.”
Mr Skelton-Cline said too, its “equally amazing,” the “deafening silence of the men who once stood as the voices and lights on behalf of the people…Their voices have been muted and their lights have gone dim.”
Elections Now
As such, Skelton-Cline disclosed, “it is time for an election, now…We need an election, now.”
Elections in the VI is constitutionally due by June 2019 but according to Mr Skelton Cline, “the people should be allowed the opportunity to make another choice, given the unprecedented circumstances facing our Territory and the glaring dysfunction and failure of this NDP Government.”
Addressing “NDP Supporters” directly during his broadcast, Mr Skelton-Cline said, “I can empathize, as it must be extremely painful to be such close eyewitness to the unfulfilled promise and potential of what could have been. But we/you can I’ll afford to accept things as they are.”
He has since called on NDP supporters to, “let’s all go to the polls and make another choice, forward.”
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