Dr. Cleon Athill, former United Progressive Party (UPP) Caretaker for the St. Paul’s constituency, has resigned, citing issues within the party.
Dr. Athill clarified that despite her passion for the country and its people, she has no intention of joining the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party or running as an Independent Candidate, indicating that she currently has no desire to pursue a political career.
She revealed in her resignation letter that her political approach, which focused on engaging with constituents on important issues rather than distributing gifts, was not accepted by the UPP.
Dr. Athill stated, “The Athill campaign was a positive campaign, it was a different campaign and I think that kind of made many people uneasy because we are so accustomed to the transactional politics.”
She further disclosed during an interview with Twin Island Media that her refusal to engage in “transactional politics” made her a target within the party, leading to a change in how she was treated.
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SO UPP criticised ALP for the gift giving politics but based on Cleon’s letter Sungoo no different from Lungoo.
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Ms Athill is not saying that. What gift did the UPP give? People dem don’t even have money to buy T-shirts. Gimme a break and stop reading into what is clearly not stated.
@… … What is she saying then? She stated because she didn’t want to comply with the gift giving aspect in politics, (transactional politics) she was treated differently by the party as that was not what she wanted. Dat a wah she say!
“ I refused the UPP transactional politics and did not take the UPP’s money to give out gifts in the constituency,” beacause of my stanch position, I was targeted by the UPP leadership.” I had to ditch the UPP Central Executive meetings to maintain my sanity. Paraphrased.
Cleon Athill.
Now watch as the paid operatives on her come for with the distraction and deflections
@Ah Gaston Browne Fault
As you rightly said ‘PARAPHRASED”……..nothing else needs saying.
Also paraphrase this ”HAS NO INTENTION OF JOINING THE CORRUPT ABLP, who is responsible for misappropriating US$1,000,000.00 of Barbuda’s Hurricane relief funds.
Mrs Imhoff also said that she had no interest in joining the little pig party but now she up in bed with them
@Man on the sea
Now if Ms Athill did not want to be part of the transactional politics in UPP, how could she be part of the Labour Party as transactional politics is all they are about. She also wanted to be part of the changes needed in Antigua. I would say then the Labour Party is not for her as only one man makes decisions in the labour government. And the rest, they just shut their mouths and be part of the thiefing corrupt cabal. Let them disagree with him, and see how fast he exposes them. He is no fool. He knows how to let them have a little to ensure loyalty.
Looks like the ABLP acolytes will be returning back into HIBERNATION once again, because of this revelation from Dr Cleon Athill.
ISN’T POLITICS A BLAST?
Mi haffi laugh 🤣🤣🤣
“ I refused the UPP transactional politics and did not take the UPP’s money to give out gifts in the constituency,” beacause of my stanch position, I was targeted by the UPP leadership.” I had to ditch the UPP Central Executive meetings to maintain my sanity. Paraphrased.
Cleon Athill.
@ Gaston Brown Fault, by Repeating yourself doesn’t make what you say more valid. Tarl!
@Ah Gaston Browne Fault
As you rightly said ‘PARAPHRASED”……..nothing else needs saying.
Also paraphrase this ”HAS NO INTENTION OF JOINING THE CORRUPT ABLP, who is responsible for misappropriating US$1,000,000.00 of Barbuda’s Hurricane relief funds.
UPP campaign is/was never based on giving gifts. What kind of gifts could UPP give? Gaston has correctly stated that they are all poor. That statement by Cleon is unfortunate and needs to be clarified. Already ABLP is jumping all over it in an effort to sanitize themselves.
Sensible people however knows better.
Exactly Zackie……..I am at a loss to understand what she is talking about because I know a number of the candidates complain night and day that they had no funds to campaign, so THIS IS A PARADOX to me.
The red ANTS just want something to hold onto. Lets hope they DO NOT HANG THEMSELVES.
Oh please!!!!!! Dr Athill is airing out UPP dirty laundry and here yall are pretending, deflecting. It’s an open secret that ALP weren’t the only ones buying votes especially after the Dry Hill party the night before the elections. Dr Athill was the only who was refused to take the filthy luca!!!!!!
Not a single member of the ALP would’ve made the mistake to publicly announcing that he was ever offered his quota of Campaign Funds; that’s how disingenuous you are but you just made a slip by telling us that your party is in the business of buying votes. Just like your boss, you will implicate yourself to tear down others.
Where did I ever say I’m a ALP supporter🤔. That is the mess up part about u UPP people. So quick to call anyone who does not sing and dance to the UPP song one LABORITE. Anyways it is I see it not of of u up to now never denied the fact your party members were at Dry Hill getting them goodies to include that And further last I check yall posted on here this very web site that ABLP bought the last elections with the 4.5 billion US dollars that came on de African plane!!!
@ Rovi
Lol, you could be a brilliant lawyer. You have stumped him.
@shim Rovi stomped nothing because neither him or u know me. I’m just amazed at how far yall will go in the denial that ur precious UPP is in shambles and also that they are practicing the very same things they accuse of doing ABLP such as buying votes. Oh the hypocrisy of you people!!!!!!
@zackie
She was the one who said it. I don’t think it can be any clearer. Anyways, let’s wait and see.
What I don’t understand, is her ideology of been different and honest, of which I agree. because we have emotional politics instead of ideological politics but to say partisan politics would also attack the USA politics and I don’t think Cleon need a political utopia,
due to the Westminster system we are given by the planters class of Caucasian extraction, which served their industrial business at the time. The parliament represent the rich and not the poor. But how Cleon athill who claims to want a difference end up on other media’s she has never dealt with to announce her dissatisfaction instead of her usual media namely observer, there is more to this than what meet the eye, and all long ropes have an end, the next nonsensical move is her alluding to restarting the “movement” when she claims partisan politics is destructive, I don’t think civics is a good thing to her as it sounded. I just wish she was honest and demit politics by using the two media available to her all along and that’s it. Oops! My bad, Did you say her relative was draft wood?
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