‘Our [political] system is nothing but a legal dictatorship’- Hon Fraser
Hon Fraser made these statements during his official campaign launch at Finc Building in Sea Cows Bay on April 1, 2023.
He said he had proposed an all-party system before the Commission of Inquiry, which had found favour with the idea.
‘Legal dictatorship’
“I told them that this system that I have proposed, will eliminate something I call a legal dictatorship which is what we have as our system. Our system is nothing but a legal dictatorship and the dictator is the Premier or the Chief Minister or whoever he is at the time,” Hon Fraser said.
He added: “All this campaigning you see out here going on, where a bunch of guys get up on a stage and say ‘elect us’, ‘vote for us’, as soon as the campaigns are over and elections are had and a government is formed and one guy is chosen as the Chief Minister or the Premier he becomes a god…That is wrong. He’s such a god that if when he see weekend come like Saturday and Sunday, your phone rings and you look and see its him calling don’t answer it. You don’t know what he’s going to tell you. Like ‘I’m firing you’ kind of thing…Like ‘I’m taking away’ something from you.”
Hon Fraser said the House of Assembly is nothing more than a “rubber stamp” for what takes place down in the Cabinet as he pointed to a lack of accountability by executives.
All-party government
The veteran legislator also said the decision to abandon the concept of a one-Party government in favour of an all-Party government was his idea and one he presented to the Premier then later to the Governor and Minister for Overseas Territory.
“And that idea, even though understandably rejected by the government, was without question the one thing that made the deal acceptable to the United Kingdom… I am afraid that any decisions at the polls that result in a single Party winning a majority will not be pleasing to the United Kingdom government, especially if that Party is the Virgin Islands Party…given that hey were the ones who had to abandon the concept of a single Party government in order to avoid subjecting the territory to the embarrassment of having our constitution suspended and the governor taking control of the country,” he said.
Meanwhile, it is unclear why PVIM, known to many as NDP 2, has chosen to align itself with Hon Fraser, who led the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) to the 2015 General Elections and was soundly beaten by the National Democratic Party (NDP), 11 seats to 2.
Hon Fraser is now being challenged in the Third District by VIP candidate Kevin C. Smith aka ‘OJ’ and NDP candidate Aaron F. Parillon.
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34 Responses to “‘Our [political] system is nothing but a legal dictatorship’- Hon Fraser”
He just gave you more insight into political reality than all the other “candidates” combined.
Hate some hair? Really?
Same goes for the Dr from the 7th. I suppose his Travel experience (has been every where there's an airport)
skb projects , now you acting like a dictator , all
of a sudden you can see what is wrong everywhere else and what needs to be done , what n have you really done for your people ? Perhaps you can build a wall around scb and be their premier ???? as ( great idea ) blogged
Moreover, I’m not too sure about the all party system. I’m also not a fan of the first to the post voting system, ie, a candidate winning by a plurality of the vote instead of a majority of the vote, ie, 50% of the vote plus 1. This will entail a runoff as needed. Further, suggest that the territory advances toward a proportional representation system. Currently a party can attain 49.99% of the vote but gets no representation. The Constitutional Review Committee must take a strong review for constitutional changes. Why would the UK be unhappy if a party wins at least 7 seats and forms the government? This would be consistent with the constitution, would it not? Is this about sour grapes, fear, distrust, envy, crab-in- bucket mentality, etc ?
Correction for earlier post: “first to the post” should have read “First-past-the-post.”