Former UPP PRO Damani Tabor Warns of Silent Exodus from Party Over Leadership Issues
On a recent appearance on the Knight at Nights show, Damani Tabor, former Public Relations Officer of the United Progressive Party (UPP), painted a stark picture of internal discontent within the opposition party.
Speaking on his recent resignation, Tabor highlighted that many more people are quietly leaving the UPP without formally submitting resignation letters, citing leadership issues as a core reason for their departure.
He noted that if even the MPs and respected figures within the party are not treated with respect, ordinary members stand little chance of fair treatment.
“If Elder Statesmen can’t get respect, and if people that voters elect, like MPs, can’t get respectβordinary members, well, crapo smoke your pipe.”
Tabor expressed dismay at what he described as a total degradation of the party’s culture, lamenting that the UPP no longer reflects the values it once stood for under former leader Baldwin Spencer.
“This is not your Granddaddyβs UPP, this is not Baldwin Spencerβs UPP,” he said, suggesting that the party’s leadership has become unrecognizable from its more democratic and respectful past.
He also referred to the partyβs internal dynamics, claiming that a culture of incivility has taken over.
“People say if someone cusses you, just cuss them backβthatβs the level of conduct thatβs now acceptable within the UPP’s executive.”
Tabor warned that the party’s problem is not limited to those who’ve resigned but extends to a larger group of disillusioned members who have quietly withdrawn from active involvement.
“People are focused on resignations, but there are 10 times as many people who have just walked away without making it official. Theyβre not wasting their time writing resignation lettersβthey’re just done with the party.”
According to Tabor, this silent disengagement poses a greater threat to the UPP than the visible resignations. He emphasized that when morale is lost, and members quietly step away, the party risks overestimating its strength.
“The people whoβve lost morale and are just laying lowβthatβs more dangerous to an institution than someone who lays their cards on the table and says, ‘peace out.'”
Taborβs remarks come at a time when the UPP faces increasing scrutiny over its leadership and internal cohesion, following multiple resignations of key members.
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With that said, for crying out loud chairwoman and little black boy… do the right thing for your party and step down! Staying in your position means the party shall remain in opposition.
why should they step down when they were DULY ELECTED???? if people have a problem, they know what to do! We follow RULES, not emotions. The majority VOTED FOR the Chairman and the Leader! richard lewis was REJECTED!!!! deal with it! but dont cry because you lose and choose to be a sore loser!!
Right on Tabor. Even forget about Pringle, Giselle Issac is the vindictive cancer of the Party. UPP will be wiped out at the next general elections and we will just have to rebuild.
the CHAOS DEMON is not stepping down! It is HER party. She run things, things na run she! but even worse are the BALLS-less, SPINE-less, WEAK, MPs who refuse to do something about it. serpent, shoogy and punky richard!
Every organization is adding and expanding! Not so with UPP! The MAN COW, LIPSTICK HAG, CHAOS DEMON π running everybody away.
“…this is not Baldwin Spencerβs UPP,β he said, suggesting that the partyβs leadership has become unrecognizable from its more democratic and respectful past.”
HOLD UP! WAIT! it IS the Baldwin Spencer UPP!!!! Mr. Spencer is not “innocent” in all of this mess. He helped to CREATE THE MONSTER A.K.A CHAOS DEMON!!! He allow she fu do as she like, talk as she like, disrespect people as she like and call the shots as she like! This is his legacyβ¦.the party he helped to build is now unrecognizable. they berate him, mock him and clown him, one even went as far as to call him the TISSUE PAPER PM. Now lovell run gone to canada to leave him alone to deal with the cesspool that is now upp. In his golden years, the mess that he helped to create [by leaving Gisele Isaac unchecked] is the same mess causing him heartache and pain and sorrowβ¦.not sleeping good at night, stressed, worried and weary of the βCHAOS DEMONβ that he and lovell created.
no wonder he cant sleep good at night – he have Gisele’s UPP on he mind and JOHN ASHE on he mind. You think conscience mek joke?
βA βformer Prime Ministerβ of Antigua & Barbuda is being cited as having received portions of the bribes paid to ex-diplomat John Asheβ¦β
βAccording to the testimony of the FBI agent, βduring the same periodβ, Ashe sent the then Prime Minister (Spencer) approximately US$170,000.β
With Giselle and Pringle at the helm, the UPP at the next election will lose all of the seats it won in the last election. These seats were not won by huge margins and it does not take much for disenchanted UPP voters to stay home.
I think Damani Tabor just needs to shut up. You’re out,Bro. You resigned. We get that. Just move on. No need to continue with your media rounds.
I understand there is chaos and turmoil in UPP, this barrage of talk is irrelevant. You choose not to be a part of it. Fine. Move on. What’s to be gained by your current approach?
why should he shut up??? You are just like the DICTATOR man cow!!!! we live in a democratic society, not north korea. It was all good when he had to purge his conscience on jackie quinn every Friday. Now that he is clearing his conscience, you want him to stay silent cause he finally found the COURAGE to flee corruption and toxicity???
keep EXPOSING UPP Mr. Tabor!!!
keep EXPOSING UPP Mr. Tabor!!!
keep EXPOSING UPP Mr. Tabor!!!
keep EXPOSING UPP Mr. Tabor!!!
keep EXPOSING UPP Mr. Tabor!!!
There are 8 MPs in opposition. Asot, Anthony and Trevor are not UPP. That leaves 5 UPP MPs. Still the majority of opposition MPs. Can they not agree to unanimously remove Pringle as Leader of the Opposition? Or is it that Bowen will not play ball? Or are they afraid to go against the party leader elected at the Convention for fear of backlash from the party members?
Asot and Anthony do not fall under any party as they are independent. It would be up to the UPP MPs to write to the Governor General expressing NO CONFIDENCE in Mr. Pringle! As Mr. Knight correctly stated: they have NO BALLS. U know you failed as a man when a WOMAN CHAIRMAN HAVE MORE BALLS THAN YOU!!
I donβt believe that Pringle is the problem, it D Giselle Isaac, she has single handedly destroyed the party. She must go ,,, simple
Harold Lovell is in Canada enjoying the weather while other upps are left to face the heat
With my tongue firmly in my cheek.
If this divisive behavior continues within and outside the UPP; the time could be right to create another political party to eventually kick the ABLP and Gaston Browne to the kerb.
I hope it doesn’t come to this, but the noise and the naysayers are distracting.
Each and every day, it’s now looking like the UPP should have made the Honourable Richard Lewis the leader of the party to defeat Browne.
Nobody envisaged this current commotion – including myself!
Bwoy, there’s a lot of CLARITY in hindsight…
ππππππππππππππππππ Brixtonian u are a pure ass!!! you PRIDEFUL, ARROGANT, SELFISH, HAUGHTY AND CONDESCENDING just like the Lipstick hog. UPP gone!!
what resignations??? Pringle done say dem “STAGED” and that Dr. Mansoor “morally and financially weak”. Shawn nicholas is the worst general secretary in the world!!!!
@Watching you,spoken like a person with inferior mentality. Nothing is to be gained by this media round. Nothing except feeding the political vultures the carion they love so much.
The rescue of our country is at stake here. The UPP turmoil is not the big issue here.
Whoever masterminded this distraction from the deplorable state of our country’s finances, roads,Healthcare, water; the all too quiet 220 million dollar deficit, failure to be transparent with the Alpha Nero, to comply with a FOIA, the missing grant monies to mention a few,is winning when people, like the gullible acolytes they are,seem more concerned with UPP than our reality here.
That my point. Tabor and his media rounds do not help the bigger picture.
the “mastermind” is Queen Gisele Isaac! got to give her credit for singlehandedly destroying UPP. The WOMENS FORUM more powerful than you or any other complaining pipsqueak. the 3 spineless MPs might as well been born with vaginas. They don’t have the balls to stand up to Queen Gizele. they lack the testicular fortitude to do right by their constituents!!
CONTINUE TO SPILL THE BEANS MR. TABOR!!!
CONTINUE TO SPILL THE BEANS MR. TABOR!!!
CONTINUE TO SPILL THE BEANS MR. TABOR!!!
CONTINUE TO SPILL THE BEANS MR. TABOR!!!
After listening to Damani Tabor and Mr. Knight last evening , our family of 25 Persons will NOT vote UPP . UPP is full of confusion. We need a NEW OPPOSITION.
Mr. Knight said that SERPENT , SHUGY and Richard Lewis should get some balls. When I heard that They want to expell elected membersβ¦This is shameful.
βPeople say if someone cusses you, just cuss them backβ? What is Tabor smoking? But wait, you want to cuss out grown smaddy and donβt expect them to cuss you back? If you cuss me, me cuss you back! These entitled wannabe petite bourgeoisie are nauseating. How voted for them?
Am watching something in st Phillip south u know Labour Party no have a candidate up they all now an guest what Bowen very quiet figure that out guys
I will say it again. UPPites live in an alternative world. The success they gained in the last election was a vote against the ABLP. It was not a vote for the UPP. Remaining hard feelings about Covid, terrible roads and no water created unbelievable anger. Some ABLP members were so angry that they voted with their heart and not their head. I was almost one of those who was so angry that my area never gets water that I made a decision not to vote. However, at the last minute, I regained my senses and considered how this country would have gone to hell under the UPP and I went and cast my vote for the ABLP. If there were an election right now, with or without the UPP confusion, the ABLP will win by a landslide.
Sometimes I wonder. To what end is this spilling the beans? Who really benefits? Will that improve our dire conditions here? So I haven’t had good flowing water in months,does Tabor’s bean spilling help?
What a messed up country this is! But this too will pass.
Spilling the beans will show the HYPOCRISY OF THE UPP!!! Pretending to be paradigm of virtue when they CORRUPT, SELFISH, WICKED, HEARTLESS AND ENVIOUS!!! With lies they tried to make Labour Party look bad…now look at how UPP reaping what it sowed. Talking bout FBI coming to arrest Gaston Browne. Talking bout 4billion in the belly of the plane.
“LYING LIPS are an ABOMINATION unto GOD” that’why upp in this current messy state. Now low and behold ALL can see who is the REAL DICTATOR!!! Wah she say go!!! Barking orders at everyone and undermining removing anyone she views as a threat to her DICTATORSHIP!!!!
UPP is the most DISGUSTING, CORRUPT, TOXIC, EVIL, HATEFUL, VENGEFUL, NASTY party in Antigua history!!!
@Me, Pringle is part of the problem; he allows himself to be led by the chair. He goes along with whatever she says — even when it is something detrimental to the party. He can’t go against her because he doesn’t possess the intellectual capacity to lead, nor to be a strong opposition MP. IMO, he doesn’t really care about Antigua[ns] – he only care about his position — making money is enough for him. The kinds of behaviours allegedly going on behind the scenes are reprehensible and doesn’t foster unity. The “my way or the highway” attitude needs to END!
I say, it’s time for UPP supporters to come out on a massive scale and demand that changes takes place, or lose our support. We have the POWER to effect that change —
there can be NO party WITHOUT its supporters; let’s start asserting our power — or else, we’ll just remain spectators of a sinking ship… #oppositionforever.
Pringle nar study are you. Pringle happy to be in opposition…better for him when Labour in power – he makes more money! About USD$200,000.00 from SIDS Conference alone. Next year June OAS Conference coming to Antigua so more money fu he.
Pringle in a “safe seat” so he relax, cock up he foot and enjoy his money lol.
@Brixtonian October 9, 2024 At 10:53 am
With my tongue firmly in my cheek.
If this divisive behavior continues within and outside the UPP; the time could be right to create another political party to eventually kick the ABLP and Gaston Browne to the kerb.
Brix with the words above it seems like you are finally coming to recon with the reality. You better jump ship before it sink completely. Don’t be the last man standing.
One thing you are not correct in, is that no other party will be ready and able to get the ABLP out for the next 15 to 20 Years. We perform well, growing the economy year after year and our World Boss is admired all over the world for his leadership. Not only in domestic things, but also in international things, like Climate Change, D-Risking and other related matter that especially affect SIDS.
@ “plain and simple” the irony of that name… seems you have a hard time understanding the real problem. No point going any further with you. Clearly my point went over your head.
Go and tell your puppet Richard, that if he wants leadership, he must WIN CONVENTION. not cry like a whiney baby. In life you have to WORK for what u want…you don’t simply get things “handed” to you.
Bottom Line: Mr. Pringle was DULY ELECTED!! richard LOST!!!
@Less We Forget, you should also take credit for the mandatory vaccines that have Antiguans dropping like flies (dead) and 12 years old diagnosed with (cancer) Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Plus, there are many more health issues that are flying under the radar. Some of y’all will not be able to enjoy the economic growth you’re bragging about.
ποΈ ποΈ you sound as “bright” as your leader Mr. Pringle. Now go sit in the corner for timeout until Gisele say you can move!!!
@UsefuI idiot, that pseudonym suits you perfectly.π Now you should try getting paid for being an ALP tool, broke ass bi*ch.
The truth hurts, I know. πππget more bioweapon… you little lab π.π
dont confuse me with Vere or he grand pickney. You knock u head on all the cement in the UPP CANT PARK
big up ya self Damani. Expose the Gizelle CULT for what it really is. UPP not working to become de actual government….they working to “overthrow gastan”, no wonder dem cant make it. no philosphy, no purpoe, no creed, no nothing! just unite to try and “overthrow the government” ……….cannot win like that!!
@ Less We Forget, you took my bait you utter damn fool. That’s why I separated the first line of my comment as an IDIOM.
For those who are as daft and grammatically challenged as @ Less We Forget [He] here’s the meaning of an IDIOM:
It is meant to be a whimsical aside; a funny line, insincerity or exaggeration – hence the separation from my response.
THAT’S AN IDIOM YOU IDIOT – GO BACK AH SCHOOL …
Brixtonian mashing up all comers as usual.
Next fool please π€£
Let’s take this UPP situation in our hands. I am appealing to all members for a petition to get rid of GHOST PRINGLE and MAN COW from Leadership of UPP. We will be completely wiped out next election under these conflicts.
@Useful idiot, I’m replyiny to you from NYC. There are Antiguans who engages with this platform from abroad. Try expanding you 108 sq miles π§ . Useful Idiot, indeed! π
Looking at all the stupidities and foolishness that pass for COMMENTS in local media, I have to wonder if it’s yesterday Antiguans learned to read and write. Thing is though, it’s the same tribe of ABLP paid hacks and character assassins who repeat the same bile and vitriol about the UPP everyday in multiple local media. You dirty punks are really working for the pittance Gaston and his political mafia are paying. The majority of UPP members and supporters know well the card you bullshitters are playing. AIM AT ONE OR TWO UPP LEADERS. CURSE, ABUSE AND BELITTLE THEM EVERYDAY. SPREAD RUMOURS AND FALSEHOODS ABOUT THEM AND THE PARTY CONSTANTLY. PIT THEIR LEADERS AND MEMBERS AGAINST EACH OTHER. IN THIS WAY CONFUSE AND DEMORALIZE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE ONLY PARTY THAT CAN SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM THE ABLP CAMPAIGN OF DESTRUCTION MISRULE INCOMPETENCE CORRUPTION MISBEHAVIOUR IN OFFICE SELF-ENRICHMENT AND ONE PARTY DICTATORSHIP. But, hey punks, it won’t work! UPP has spread education and critical thinking across all classes of citizens of this country, and it’s clear to us that this entire charade was planned and launched by the destroyers of our future, who are dedicated to sell off and give away our patrimony heritage dignity and wealth to the children and grandchildren of the devil colonials who ruined tortured and murdered our noble ancestors. UPP isn’t going away. UPP is not imploding. UPP is not mashing up. All these allegations are just the wishful thinking of the slimy collaborators of our historic oppressors. They want to spread and entrench a false narrative that the UPP has no future as the champion that broke the chokehold the ABLP and the Bird dynasty (now under the Browne-Bird smokescreen) had imposed on us for over two generations. Just like FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, there is a secret document that lays out this playbook. Those Tabors Knights Mansoors Smiths and other dunces and opportunists that allow themselves to be deceived and misled into joining the bandwagon vainly hoping to utterly destroy the people’s hope for redemption from the ABLP DEMONISM, are all in for a very rude and shocking awakening when UPP bounces back from this well orchestrated and paid for trickery designed to destroy our dear party. Then your weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth from your spectacular failure will be heard and ridiculed from the far corners of the Caribbean and beyond. You will all surely join that ugly wicked corrupt enemy of the Antiguan Barbuda people in the dustbin of history. Mark these words !
@ plain and simple… you just proved my point on how dunce and slow you are! U don’t even deserve and answer from me but I will grant you it one more time…. BTW before you call anyone a puppet, check yourself and Pringle before you reck yourself lolol…
@Eldridge sometimes you make sense but everything in your comment is hot wash.Dont know about the other names but what bandwagon has Tabor and Knight joined. Knight and Tabor are two of the most patriotic people on the political scene now. They both just want the best for Antigua and Barbuda.
Ignore “Rass Smood”
The little 1×1 basement space squeezing his head
He help UPP lose de election
@ well played!
What weather?
Canada cold, this time of yearπ€
@Patriot
“Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels.” Have you come across that quotation in the little reading you probably have done, Ma’am?
@Patriot
“Patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels.” Have you come across that quotation in the little reading you have done, Ma’am?
Who says that enslavement is a bygone product? The monumental human tragedy known to the human race largely came about as the results of turncoats who traded Africans for “luxurious” items.
Antigua could have been the first African independent state and not Haiti had it not been for the turncoats who betrayed Prince Klass.
The defectors from the UPP are no different to their turncoat slave ancestors, they perpetuate the posionous DNA that they inherited.
To add salt to the wound, majority of the turncoats have joined the “Red”brigade demonstrating their level of greed whereby their are prepared to put the dollar sign before principles.
The rule of good governance, democracy, transparency and integrity are no longer appealing, so they have buried their conscience and are signing to the tune devised by the buffoon “enriched yourselves.”
When will those Turncoats let their voices be heard and challenged the government on:
Gaston and Olabanjo’s migrants, the ongoing water crisis, crime and juvenile delinquency, food and economic crisis, the ALP wilful destruction of Barbudans way of life?
The above is not an exhausted list.
Pringle is not Antigua’s problem, let’s not forget that VC Bird was not a scholar, however,to Pringle’s credit he was a significant voice for a full term and he led the party to victory. Gisele… I reserved my comments, but conversely, she was democratically elected as the chair for the party.
In the meantime, I cannot endorsed Thebor’s claims that party members are rapidly leaving. I have been a supporter from PLM/UPP era for 47 years and whilst they might be issues with UPP I am and will remain “Blue” without compromise.
@Antiguan4ever you can remain “Blue” until the UPP ship sink at the next election. What Tabor said is that even if people physically remain they have tuned out of the party since maybe they better understand how the leadership operates. As I see it the chair just wants her puppet to become prime minister so she would run things. People miss the point that it is not about convention results, but whether Pringle and Giselle are the best team to make UPP win. If a national poll is done today the majority of the electorate would tell you that Richard Lewis would give the UPP a better chance to beat Gaston than Pringle. That is just the fact.
Richard Lewis CANNOT EVEN BEAT PRINGLE, MUCH LESS GB!!
There is a culture of fear and silence within the UPP. This is why those 3 MPs scared to file motion of ni confidence in Pringle.
One wrong move and tapes will be leaked exposing certain conversations they didn’t know were even recorded
Boy you hab it wrong. The convention was rigged with money given to Pringle to buy delegates. A poll done for the UPP show that more people see Lewis as the better leader to challenge Gaston.
Now that we are divided we are vulnerable for the defeat at an early elections the PM might take this opportunity to call an early election now that we are eating each other uo and cussing morning noon and night I don’t know if we will if come back I am waiting to hear Mr Spencer say something but he is quiet as a mouse
Because the Honourable Jamale Pringle is so intellectually poor, when juxtaposed with Richard, it makes Richard appear so much brighter than he actually is!!!! Richard is ok intellectually, but not exactly outstanding.
Even Damani Tabor is much more intelligent than Richard Lewis. Shawn Nicholas have more brains than him too.
He only seems “bright” relative to Pringle. By himself, he is average at best. He is not ready, neither is he capable of being Prime Minister. He just doesn’t cut it!!!
@Damn if we do damn if we dont
Keep Mr. Spencer name out ya stinking mouth. After all the disrespect meted out to him by his own party, you have some nerve pretending to care!!!
Why didn’t the party treasurer receive the monies donated by JOHN ASHE??? Why purposely involve Mr. Spencer in FINANCIAL transactions???
You think God sleeping?? Your time will come!!! Let the man relax and enjoy his final moments on earth please.
@Eldridge
Come like you smoke some bad weed π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ you ranting like a nut job, a psychotic vagrant with body odour and messy clothes. Just re-read the cock-n-bull story you scribbled and maybe you’ll realize how sad your life is!! Time for your family to stage an intervention. You losing your marbles over Tabor, Mansoor, Knight and Smith π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£ π€£
@Antiguan4ever
You can’t seriously believe the bullshit you wroteπ π no wonder UPP falling apart. You are Exhibit A dunceness at top tier level.
Barbuda had no way of life except MENTAL SLAVERY & BRAINWASHING at the hands of BPM/UPP.
ABLP GASTON BROWNE ADMINISTRATION is now facilitating a way of life over in Barbuda.
Stop chatting shit please. Makes you seem deranged, delusional and doortish
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