{"id":8360,"date":"2017-10-17T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T21:45:15","slug":"upp-dismisses-pollster-election-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/upp-dismisses-pollster-election-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"UPP dismisses pollster election prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United Progressive Party (UPP) is confident of its chances at the polls come the next general election, and has scoffed at claims by a political analyst that the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) will retain the government.<\/p>

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Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the UPP Senator Damani Tabor told\u00a0Antigua News Room\u00a0(ANR) that the party dismisses the recent comments made by Barbadian pollster Peter Wickham.<\/p>\n

Wickham had expressed that if elections were to be called early, the Gaston Browne administration would win based on several issues, including its handling of the post Hurricane Irma Barbuda matter.<\/p>

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Tabor said Wickham is not a credible pollster since he was unaware that the UPP\u2019s Wilmoth Daniel is challenging Prime Minister Gaston Browne in the St John\u2019s City West constituency.<\/p>

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\u201cPeter Wickham demonstrated surprise, therefore he has not followed the state of the race or polled it accurately enough even to know that MP Daniel is challenging Browne. How then can we consider anything he has to say as valid or having any merit? We dismiss what Peter Wickham has said wholeheartedly,” Tabor said.<\/p>\n

While many, including Opposition Leader Baldwin Spencer, have accepted that the government may want to use its handling of the crisis on Barbuda following the passage of Irma to gain political mileage, Tabor said this will not help the ABLP because its mismanagement of the economy continues unabated.<\/p>

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He said the fact that relief monies were used to pay salaries and the apparent lack of vision for the way forward for Barbuda will go against the ABLP government.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, the September tax returns which are a reflection of the economic performance in August, those were way down even before the effects of the storm would have had an impact on pay receipt.<\/p>

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\u201cThe economy is in decline, the consistent trend of decline in arrivals will continue unabated in total absence of any new hotel properties coming on stream in the tourism sector (and this) will also continue into the new year. So basically the overall economic trend lines are so bleak that they are diminishing and the craze that is related to Irma will not be sufficient to carry the ABLP into a new election oted Tabor.<\/p>

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Tabor said the next election will be won based on new polices which a government plans on implementing to solve long term problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we move away from a developmental model that is based on being so overly reliant on a single industry and on a single class of plantocrat-type investors? How can we move to a democratised shareholder economy where the small man has equal stake, has a seat at the table in terms of diversifying into new industries where you can leverage government\u2019s capital ability, borrowing ability, infrastructure consultancy etc to diversity the economy?” Tabor asked.<\/p>\n

According to the PRO, the UPP intends to solve the\u00a0\u201cbig problems\u201d\u00a0and is not concerned about the temporary Irma [trump card] which is\u00a0\u201cdissipating\u201dby the day.<\/p>\n

Elections are constitutionally due in 2019.<\/p>\n

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