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Former UPP PRO Winston Henry Made the following comment in a blog post on ANR.
I am always amazed when ever I read these articles my lawyer friend would send to me.
I find that in many cases the writer has valid points even though i may not always agree with him or her.
I also find the feedback equally the same.
What strikes me most is to read how varying our political prospective can be.
On the one hand persons believe that once you are elected that means everything, and no one should question that.
After all, I was elected at a convention by 200 to 300 hundred, so you 60, 000 registered voters should just accept that.
How dare you question or criticize me/us!!!
What seems odd to me is this, we are so protective of a convention election that we hate the idea of anyone even suggestion otherwise.
However in the same breath we are asking that PM Browne and all HIS ELECTED members of government step down for the good of the country.
While I believe that the PM is not doing right by the country in many ways, I also agree that he has gotten many things right.
If I make a call for him to step down, I must equally be of good conscience if warranted make the same call of Mr. Pringle, again if warranted.
How is it that we can be so hypocritical in saying the PM should resign or be booted out of office but the UPP leader is untouchable and no critique should be fall him?
The real question is not whether Pringle is elected or PM Browne is elected, the fundamental question is this, are they best for the country at this time?
Sure one has power and the other is “just the opposition leader” to be honest they are both two very powerful persons in the political landscape of the country.
Their roles are different but their responsibilities to the nation is the same.
GOOD GOVERNANCE and ACCOUNTABILITY.
Both should be given the respect and both should have protected police detail.
The Prime Minister minister controls cabinet, the opposition leader controls the public accounts committee.
The Prime Minister dictates the governing policies, the Opposition Leader has oversight of those policies and has the attention of the public to report how the cabinet is spending their money.
Look at it from. The prospective of the courts vs parliament.
While parliament makes the laws and that is awesome it is the role of the courts to oversee those laws and interprets them for the people. And that to is equally important.
They are both very important they are both necessary for justice.
The same way the PM and cabinet is important so too is the Leader of the opposition, in governance. Section 78 of the constitution.
Same coin two sides very different responsibilities in the public interest and for the public good.
That brings me to this question; if it’s OK for us to question PM Browne’s integrity, and hold him accountable, what are we saying that as Antiguans we ought not to hold Mr. Pringle to the same degree of public scrutiny?
If the UPP’s position is the PM should be judged by the Antiguan public, then so too must Mr. Pringle, NO EXCEPTIONS, NO FREE PASS. Is he not the PM in waiting?
We want to have it both ways, we have become so blinded by our party affiliation that we forget we are first Antiguans, then members of a party second.
I will say this, I don’t have an issue with the UPP defending its leader, I have an issue with blind loyalty and cultists behaviors.
So yes if Mr. Pringle wants to lead this county, let me be very clear, i don’t care whether I am a UPP supporter or not, he must show me as an Antiguan that he is fit and ready to lead.
The same standard I hold PM Browne too and is willing tonspeak out I will do the same with Mr. Pringle NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
I am not judging him on Mr. Gaston Browne standards, rather I am judging him on the basis, that, he can truly represent all Antiguans and Barbudans in any circle.
If the people are feeling as if he lacks capacity in their eyes.
Find out what they are expecting from you then go and aquire the necessary skills and show them that you have what it takes and you are willing to do what it takes, to be the best leader for the people.
NOT JUST LIKABILITY but the necessary skills to lead a country.
Whatever you do STOP asking people to accept any inadequacies just because people were elected at a convention.
I not accepting that from PM Browne and neither am i accepting that from Mr. Pringle.
If the UPP is willing to call on PM Browne to resign stop acting like spoil brats as soon as someone calls out the leader.
Use it as an opportunity to be better to do better and lift your focus.
A convention may be good for the party, however, the nation now need to know that, what the party sees when they choose you at the convention you can pivot nationally and your worth it every vote and worthy to be the leader and the Prime Minister in waiting.
At any conventions the choosing of a Leader has national ramifications.
This choice sets the tone for who will be the next Prime Minister.
The choice must be measured, not just party interest, but national expectations.
The public will (like it or not) weigh in on your choice and if they find that it does not meet their standard they will tell you.
For those of the UPP that is starting to take on cultists attitudes STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!!!.
You are not doing any good trying to have people accept blindly.
Tell them why he is the best choice, let them know what he brings to the table and put your campaigning for Mr. Pringle to work instead of trying to force your decision at a convention down the throat of people.
Sell his strengths and work on his weaknesses. Convince people not confront them.
We have an fairly educated public, start respecting that and stop treating the people like how the ABLP is treating them. Stop the cultists mentality.
Antigua 🇦🇬 First, Antiguan always
Winston Henry
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True say! All ah dem in Parliament need fi answer to de people, red or blue.
Not everything is a Browne vs. Pringle thing. Let’s talk policy, not personalities.
Dem both ah dem like talk, but who really deh pon de ground wid de people?
The country needs leaders who work, not just argue. Simple.
The country deserves a strong government and a strong opposition.
The country deserves a strong government and a strong opposition.
THSSS!!!! This is exactly what was needed to be said! Finally someone with balls to say it!
Let’s hope they can heed the advice!!!
Winston you have just acquired some very vicious enemies.
Please block your ears.
Make sure you do not get within hearing shot of Cursador Radio.
You will find that you have become a vegetable and need to be bathed.
You can no longer do it for yourself.
It has to be done to you by UPP supporters.
Be of good courage!!!
Speak truth to power.
The UPP wanted and exchange.
They do not want change.
We must guve them Jesus and they must not give anyone.
Gaston is a curse on Antigua.
However we cannot replace his with a bigger curse in Pringle.
We want the duly elected PeeeeeeeeeM to step aside and hand over to the opposition leader who was elecr3d by 200 to 400 people.
The UPP leader was elected democratically and in keeping with the UPP constitution.
However we do not think the PeeeeeeeeeM was elected tge same way jn keeping with the constitution of ANTIGUA.
I will go one step further than you w I stone Henry and say that the UPP in its present form needs to be resolved.
The UPP in its present state will create HISTORY.
It will become the first party to win an election by subtraction.
I mean by cleansing.
I mean by running away members.
I mean with members leaving the party.
@ Straight Shooter
You need to get rid of your bitterness.
I can recommend Angostura Bitters, or some Knight’s or Tabor’s tonic.
Funny enough when he was the party’s PRO his performance was totally under-par. I use to hear so much criticism directed to the party because of him. Now all of a sudden he is the Knight in shining armour and from whence comest thou ‘Political Analys’. He needs to keep quiet and shut up trying.
You will notice I write my comments un my real name. I do not hide under the cover of fictitious names “Poganda”
My record serving the UPP in a PR capacity is unquestionably the best period ever.
It is this blind cultists behaviour that will cause the UPP to go NoWhere.
Be willing to speak up, if you want to speak out against Gaston.
Stop with the coolaid drinking who ever you are man or woman same difference since yo are hiding.
I will challenge you, you and me on air to defend the UPP under your real name, let’s have an honest conversation. My record during my time as UPP PRO is up for conversation as well…
Let’s go……..
Winston, just as you have destroyed the rules of English grammar in your article, so you have totally destroyed the rules of logic, and political logic in particular. The yardstick by which you measure the leadership of a State is not the same you use to measure the leadership of a Party. The big problem with many of you guys who accept the job to rage against the UPP and its leadership is that in your political naivety and immaturity you fall for the campaign of vilification and misinformation that is standard operational practice of the criminal mafia organization that is the ABLP, a party that, since 1976, has been hell bent on destroying the historical character and potential of the real Antiguan and Barbudan people. Every leader and all leaders of the UPP have had to face an intensive and extensive barrage of character assassination, disparagement, and belittlement designed to make them look like incompetents, lacking capacity, and unworthy of leading the government of this country. The ABLP’s wicked propaganda is so pervasive that persons who should know better have always fallen for it and have unfortunately allowed it to program their opinions and judgement of the UPP leadership’s, to the delight of the true incompetents, dunces, incapacitated corrupt money junkies that lead the ablp. It was so with Spencer, Lovell, and now with Pringle. You all must get yourself together, wake up and understand the magnitude of the scam being perpetrated against you and this entire nation by the self enrichment mafia that wants to be seen as being the only ones worthy and having the capacity to take our country forward. Like you, Winston, the ABLP tries hard to present stupidity and deception as logic and good sense! People, I beg you, stop falling for the foolishness that is leading you to your own destruction.
Winston….I so agree with you. People hiding under these fictitious name will take us nowhere. I often wonder what are they afraid of…who are they afraid of?
Let’s be real.. adults..big people afraid to use there real names…imagine that.
I have always said that Winston Henry was overated as public relations officer of upp back in the hay days, he wasn’t known from no where , and I believe that help upp to lose power even though they did so much good.
But to the issue at hand at this time I think Winston has shown maturity and is on the ball on this Pringle fiasco, do you think people are oblivious to the fact that all the other upp members are well articulate and possess better institutional capacity, take for example Franz defreitas gymnastics semantic capabilities and institutional knowledge that dwarf Pringle and others. If the same Winston Henry had Franz defreitas capabilities, he would have been sounding his trumpet. Franz should be in the Senate to strengthen UPP on the public eye.