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'Politics is a jealous lover' - Myron V. Walwyn tells 'Real Talk'
"When I reflected on it, I remember when I was being called to the bar... a young lady second my call and she said to me in open court, that law is a jealous lover, suggesting that you can't do anything else when you are doing law," he said on the Wednesday, March 18, 2020, edition of the show.
'Respect the democratic process'
"But I found out that wasn't true, the jealous love was politics," he said, noting that getting into politics and putting his all into it resulted in other parts of his personal life suffering from lack of time.
"I am happy to return back even though yes, I wanted to serve, but you have to respect the democratic process. I did that and now I am back into my business, a year has passed [and] I think I have transitioned fairly well," he said.
Regarding the removal of the Honourable title from his name now that he is no longer a member of the VI House of Assembly (HoA), Mr Walwyn told Mrs Christopher that even with the title he remained humble.
'Yes its an honour certainly to serve, but you can't let it get to you to the point that people who know you, your friends and so forth, feel as if they can't call you by your normal name," he said.
'It wasn't a shock' - Waywn on elections loss
Turning his attention to his 2019 elections loss as Leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Mr Walwyn revealed that it was no shock to see his performance dip brutally in the polls.
"I wouldn't say it was a shock... nothing is a will to anybody, its politics at the end of the day, its people's right to choose who they would like to serve them," he said.
Mr Walwyn spoke of the NDP imploding and splitting into with one faction headed by him, and the other a breakaway, Progressives Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM), headed by Ronnie W. Skelton, "that, of course, tells you that would affect your overall support base and so," he said.
Accepting the Loss
Since leaving politics, Mr Walwyn has taken to social media with a number of ramblings in which political pundits suspect is an attempt to re-win the hearts of Virgin Islanders after they rejected his alleged divisive and warlike ideologies in 2019.
On February 24, 2020, in a Facebook post to his online followers, the Ex-Chairman of the NDP reflected on past regrets noting that they could eventually set you on the course to greatness. Then, in January 2020, he urged Virgin Islanders to put envy and jealousy aside.
Mr Walwyn was recently under investigation for an alleged corrupt $1.6M wall project commissioned for the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) during his tenure as Education Minister and, according to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Michael B. Matthews, the investigation file is currently in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for further action.
Mr Walwyn said at the end of the day, he accepts the loss and took a gracious exit from the political scene, given that the people of the Virgin Islands decided that they no longer wanted him to serve.
"If it's personal, if you are there for other reasons besides service, I believe you might take it a bit harder," Mr Walwyn told host Mrs Christopher.
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Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 - 1527
“A prince … cannot observe all those things for which men are held good, since he is often under a necessity, to maintain his state, of acting against faith, against charity, against humanity, against religion. And so he needs to … not depart from good, when possible, but know how to enter into evil, when forced by necessity.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Ch. XVIII.
Moreover, though Myron Walwyn, former two term At Large winner, top vote getter in 2015 general election and MEC, purports to be at peace with his shocking and surprising lost at the polls on 25 Feb 2019 and having led the NDP to a shellacking in Feb 2019 general, clearly, though resigned from active politics, he seems to be on a redemption and forgiveness tour, a journey of political renewal and a renaissance of sorts. It should be all good but he may not admit it. Machiavelli supposedly says that a true leader must l....e. General Douglas MacArthur did say he will return to the Philippines and Arnold said “I will be back.” And Myron will be back in politics for politics is addicting.
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