Hon Christian wants Hon O’Neal to apologise for name calling
![“I felt profoundly disappointed when I read that up in the Ninth District in Anegada… and I have been telling you ladies and gentlemen that desperation is a funny thing and with 11 days [to elections] I am not sure how bad it’s going to get but it has gotten to a point to where I think Premier and colleagues tonight I need to say something about it and say it in very strong words,” said Hon Christian. He also took offense to Hon Fraser referring to the NDP members as 'Dogs'. Photo: VINO](https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/cache/images/800x_i_IMG_8327_01.JPG)
“Apologise and we will forgive you,” he said. Hon Christian was at the time venting his feelings at what some would call a person with “two mouths” during a campaign meeting at the One Mart parking lot in Purcell.
The At Large member without a ministerial portfolio alluded to the accolades given to Hon O’Neal on May 27, 2015 at an official opening ceremony of the Jeffery Caines Sports Arena on Virgin Gorda and how Hon O’Neal had spoken of the nice way he was treated in the House of Assembly with Hon Alvera Maduro-Caines making sure he got his soup and the other members ensuring that he was comfortable with enough to eat and drink.
The veteran politician had said when his mobility became challenging the NDP members of the House would come over to the Opposition bench and greet him on every occasion. In addition, he had thanked the Speaker of the House, Hon Ingrid Moses, for allowing him to sit while addressing the House.
“I felt profoundly disappointed when I read that up in the Ninth District in Anegada… and I have been telling you ladies and gentlemen that desperation is a funny thing and with 11 days [to elections] I am not sure how bad it’s going to get but it has gotten to a point to where I think Premier and colleagues tonight I need to say something about it and say it in very strong words,” said Hon Christian.
Pack of hounds
With Hon O’Neal as his target, Hon Christian said the night prior to the receiving of “his flowers”, Hon O’Neal, as reported in some sections of the media, had referred to members of the NDP as ‘a pack of hounds’. “You made those lovely remarks the night after but the night before you are saying…that Bertie O’Neal would understand the kind of people he would be dealing with in the NDP and referred to us as a pack of hounds… hounds is a breed of dogs.”
Turning to statements allegedly made by Hon Fraser, Hon Christian said that Premier, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith, was admonished to take his “dogs” off of him. “So what do you see here ladies and gentlemen? We have the oldest serving member in the Virgin Islands and perhaps the oldest serving member in the Caribbean referring to members of the NDP as hounds and the person that wants to be the next Premier, sadly that will not happen, calling us dogs.”
Hon Christian took offence to the name calling as he said he can spend an entire campaign season without calling his opponents’ names because as far as he is concerned the elections is about what each side can do to better the lives of the people of the Virgin Islands. “It’s not about name calling and it’s not about defaming people’s character, and I know I have a good character and I know my colleagues have a good character.”
It was at that point Hon Christian said that if the VIP members can find it in their hearts to apologise to the NDP and the people of the VI for their “derogatory” remarks, they would be forgiven. “We will forgive them but I am saying to you tonight ladies and gentlemen and I am asking you to stay focused.”
Where was Hon Christian?
It is ironic, however, that Hon Christian has painted the NDP to be a victim of name calling and demanding an apology when it is his party that is regarded as having cultivated a culture of disrespect, with Hon Myron V. Walwyn referring to the then Premier Hon O’Neal as an ‘emperor without clothes’ on the 2011 campaign trail and another NDP candidate at the time referring to the then Deputy Premier Dancia Penn as an ‘empty kerosene can’.
Neither of these individuals ever publicly apologised for their comments that were frowned upon by the Virgin Islands community as distasteful nor did Hon Christian condemn the name calling then.
In addition to that, Hon Christian remained in silence when former legislator and staunch NDP supporter Eileene L. Parsons cursed First District Representative Hon Andrew A. Fahie at a public function in January 2015. Ms Parsons had stated publicly that she was not apologising and that she had in fact “declared war”.
Premier Smith then came out in defence of Ms Parsons, saying she was provoked and instead cast the blame at the feet of Hon Fahie for Ms Parsons’ outburst.
The Premier’s defending of Ms Parsons, according to critics, further confirmed sentiments that the NDP was indeed cultivating and upholding a culture of disrespect and that Premier Smith lacked that firmness and authority to keep his party members in check.
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All the dogs are sick and vomiting of this $h1t so imagine human so ARCHIE stop being the damn puppet for the party none of the NDP do not care for the poor I know if they get in it is going to be worst look what happen for the last three and a half years tell me of any small who prosper in that time they prosper when they die and they pay for the funerals and if they get back in the funeral home will get rich off the treasury.
Cant wait until the people vote out this $&_=) ==
You full of ####
another NDP dead horse taking $h1T!