{"id":191635,"date":"2023-12-06T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=191635"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:07:50","slug":"letter-letter-young-politicians-no-better-than-the-trash-we-have-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-letter-young-politicians-no-better-than-the-trash-we-have-now\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Young Politicians No Better Than the Trash We Have Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Editor,<\/p>

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I see many young people stepping forward to get active in Antiguan and Barbudan politics and I commend them for it. But we need them to be the leaders of tomorrow and not the same as the jackass-brained leaders we have today.<\/p>\n

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If the people in their 20s and 30s are aspiring to be anything like the government’s of the past 70 years, our country will certainly go nowhere. Believe what I am telling you.<\/p>

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To these young people, I would ask: Do you want to be the next Gaston Browne? Do you want to be the next Asot Michael? Do you want to be the next Harold Lovell? The next Chet Greene? The next Lester Bird? The next Baldwin Spencer? Why? Why in God’s name would you want to do that?<\/p>

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Too many of our young political aspirants or contenders are full of capacity, but have absolutely no conviction. They believe in nothing. They are completely pragmatic with no moral philosophy.<\/p>\n

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They come with education, with tenure in leaderships positions, with qualifications, and with accumen. But they have no vision for what they want to see happen in the damn country, except the same retarded half-assed so-called vision and development rhetoric of their political predecessors, which has gotten us where we are today.<\/p>

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You could have a doctorate in development economics and you may have spent years with the World Bank and IMF, but if you have no convictions and deeply held beliefs about what needs to change, then what good is all your knowledge?<\/p>\n

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You MUST want to do something differently, right? And yet, many of them do not. Ask them what should change about the way we do anything, and the responses are quite bland and predicable. None seem to want substantial change.<\/p>

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Which young political aspirant in this country of all the young people we see in the senate, in government positions, or on party slates, has told of their desire for major tectonic shifts in the way we do anything?<\/p>

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Who is talking about a new approach to development and diversification beyond rhetoric. Who is talking about creating a better domestic financial market for domestic investment pooling? Who is talking about which key industries we ought to focus on for expansion alongside tourism?<\/p>\n

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Who is talking about right-sizing, upskilling, reforming and refreshing our civil service? Who is talking about increasing the obstacles to corruption and increasing the demands on officials for integrity?<\/p>\n

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Who is talking about completely revamping our police force – increasing pay, recruitment standards, specialist teams, improving their deplorable working premises, bringing in digitalisation and technology at every level, creating a joint governmental and civil society oversight board, creating a civilian staffed office for investigating complaints, having the PM and the opposition leader jointly agree on the appointment of a Commissioner and not just the PM – who is talking about these things?<\/p>\n

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Who is talking about an having an Inspector General whose office can oversee state contracting and procurement across agencies and clamp down on wastage and corruption?<\/p>\n

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Who is talking about creating an independent office for judicial administration that removes any aspect of court system administration from the hands of the political executive?<\/p>\n

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Who is talking about actually enacting reform in our schools to introduce things that we talk about endlessly, but do not implement: civics, early sex education, conflict resolution – who is talking about these things?<\/p>\n

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Who is talking about the chaos and insanity that happens on a day to day basis in the poor administration of our hospital and our clinics under Sir Molwyn Waste of Time Joseph? Who is talking about having an impartial Speaker, to spare us from ever again having to deal with someone like Sir Geriatric Watt?<\/p>\n

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When in the hell will we have reasonable local government structures that prevent us from having to chase down our MPs for the most basic things?<\/p>\n

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Which of these young politicians is talking about a plan for St. John’s – the stinking, ungodly, sh*thole that it is. I don’t blame the government for St. John’s. St. John’s is a mess due to a myriad of decades long factors that overlap. But I blame the government for not having a single coherent policy for how to address it.<\/p>\n

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St. John’s needs ongoing, phased redevelopment – a comprehensive plan that would include driving all new construction to designated areas, a framework for land swaps, the destruction of derelict property deemed to be a hazard, the acquisition of and auction of derelict land with provision made for compensation to the property owner should they come forward, and a raft of incentives for locals with meams to develop new properties in the active zones of the phased redevelopment.<\/p>\n

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We would like to see a plan that includes wider streets, no-driving streets strictly for foot traffic, and parking lots, or other parking solutions strategically placed to accommodate each row or block of businesses.<\/p>\n

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Zoning is needed – a corporate and business district, a commerce and retail district with provisions for increased foot traffic, areas for leisure and recreation serviced by restaurants and organised vending, a park and green area. Housing developments need to be envisioned for the long term renewal of the ghettos that dominate the borders of the city.<\/p>\n

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Will it happen overnight? Of course not. It will take years of consistent and incremental progress, and a majority of private investment alongside state resources. But what is it like now? Has anything remotely like what I described even started? Is there even a plan?<\/p>\n

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Do we want to see this new St. John’s in the next 10 years? 12 years? 15 years? Because at the current rate of indolence and lethargy, we won’t see anything good come of St. John’s in the next 50 years. That’s 2073. You and I will very likely be dead.<\/p>\n

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No one is talking about these things.<\/p>\n

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What is the national plan for adaptation to climate change? What is the name of the document? Where has it been published? Who are the authors? When was it commissioned? Who often is it reviewed and amended? Who were the stakeholders involved in it? What percentage of objectoves have been achieved so far? Does any such plan even exist?<\/p>\n

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We have a multimillion dollar nonfictionimg solar farm on airport road thay serves as a grazing ground for goats. Millions of dollars spent to feed grass to goats. Millions. Think about that. Who is accountable? Then they say that moving to renewables is expensive for SIDS. It’s true. But, so you know what is even more expensive? Having buffoons in government who squander the nation’s money and show nothing for it.<\/p>\n

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We should pass a law that enables ministers to be sued in their personal capacities for all the wasted money spent on idiotic, half-thought schemes or good initiatives left to rot. I’m sure they’d perk up and start delivering more bang for every buck.<\/p>\n

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I don’t hear young politicians speaking on these issues. I don’t hear it from the young leaders in the UPP. And I see all the fresh faces coming to Labour – none of them with the spine to criticize Gaston Browne or his administration, lest they be publicly humiliated and chewed out on the Gossip with Gaston show on Pointe FM on Saturdays, or victimized within their party for having a single independent thought.<\/p>\n

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Many young politicians seem as though they are desperate to do exactly what their parties have been doing forever. More of the same, just with better skin and a longer warranty. Fifty more years the same sh*t. Beg money. Cry slavery. Blame massa. Tek a knighthood. Sex gyal. Bus gun. Have fun. Like a goddamn dance hall video.<\/p>\n

Ernest J. Farfingbottom<\/p>\n

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