LETTER: Stop the lie about Harold Lovell and Joanne Massiah

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Letter to the Editor

 Stop the lie about Harold Lovell and Joanne Massiah

To say that the UPP kicked out Joanne Massiah because she challenged Harold Lovell for leadership is a BIG LIE.

It is time to stop the lie. I am no longer a member but I remember how things went down.

Lovell proposed that Joanne make a bid for the leadership because he had lost.  The party did not approve. The party felt she was not ready and that he should continue to lead the party. She was not happy with that position because as she said “she won her seat and he lost his”.

Lovell went back in the game because the party insisted.  She could have read the tea leaves and thrown in with him. She would have taken over after him. However, she listened to her friends in the ALP who buttered her up and advised her to run against him.

When the leadership race started, she was losing big time to Lovell in the four branches they contested. At a general council meeting to present the two teams to the membership, she cried foul, took her team, walked out and stayed outside with the most terrible conduct. Against the wishes of some senior members, Lovell and his advisors met with her to patch things up, but the meeting was inconclusive.

 She became sour and she and her team began a reign of resistance to the party. After a long period, the party had no choice but to expel her for the unsavory things she was doing like walking out of meetings, giving negative media interviews about the party, recording party meetings and posting them on air, etc.

Imhoff was a disciple of Massiah. She was brought to the party by Massiah. She had plenty attitude and made sure everyone knew how much she thought of herself. After Massiah left, she was a UPP primary candidate for St Peter. After losing badly, she threw a tantrum and left and joined Massiah’s party. Of course, she was not happy there too and left.

It is interesting to note that if Joanne was still in UPP and she was over where she is now, if she Imhoff would have been so accommodating to her.  

Back then the UPP was so hung up on getting women in the party leadership that it moved hastily and made a lot of mistakes trying to do this. They let the Labour Party sucker them into this by saying they do not like women in their party. This was furthest from the truth. The dilemma was getting women who could deal with the politics Labour Party style and win.

 It is time the men review the mistakes made doing this and take a hard, long honest look at the right way this should be done to get better parity. The gap that Gisele Isaac filled was left gaping open because the party did not know how to achieve meaningful accommodation. Isaac walked in, cleaned house and set out her own furniture and tea set.

At present, it looks like the men are on the back burner. The old guard leadership seems to have thrown up its hands trying to find a clinical way to tame Isaac and her minions.

That is not good for the UPP nor the call for good leadership to achieve governance in the next general elections. 

King Truth

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10 COMMENTS

  1. The letter seems truthful from what I have heard from UPP insiders. However, the biggest problem with the UPP now is not just Jamale Pringle as leader but worse Gisele Isaac as Chairman. She lacks the political sense and personal skills to be leading a political party. The problems facing the party now are mainly due to her and of course Pringle’s weakness. Harold’s weakness also allowed her to become the Wrecking Ball that she has become. At this point she is completely useless to the UPP. The weakling Harold should have realized that but I understand he usually deferred to her positions.

  2. @ King Truth, you must know by now the ABLP playbook at the run-up to any by-election is to distort the truth, make untold and unworkable promises to the gullible electorate.

    And do not forget that similarly to the last General Election, when many bellies are full with ham and turkey after Christmas & New Year, let us not fail to recall Gaston Browne’s crowning glory in garnering votes, will be his One Nation concert – and bingo, the clown Prince wins again.

    WHEN WILL THE REST OF THE COUNTRY SEE THROUGH THESE TRANSPARENT FOOLISHNESS?

    Remember, the higher Gaston climb he tree, the more he show he tail.

    it’s great to be back after my sabbatical 😉

    Brixtonian ‘Better Than Ever’ ✊🏾

  3. If Harold was not a flip-flopping spineless coward, none of the 3 acrimonious conventions would have taken place. How many times can one man quit then come back?

    The man just can’t ever make up his mind. In today. Out tomorrow. Back in the next day AFTER the person he asked to run to succeed him followed his wishes. The same BS happened to both Joanne and Richard.

    Ultimately Harold Lovell had 75% destroyed UPP with poor leadership and the Pringle Puppet is finishing off the job.

    Selah!

  4. Hog wash…Harold Lovell was lucky he wasnt disavowed and cast out after he challenged Baldwin. After the tissue paper assertion. Begged forgiveness but had to abandoned those who supported him…. after the called ahim a communist.
    He had to pledge ” win, lose or draw ..since they hot wind that there might be a break away.. its no secret.

  5. Anybody in Antigua & Barbuda who thinks that Harold really honestly lost to Melford need to have their heads examined, remember we were told how people were transferred into certain constiuencies. I believe Harold was a casualty of that

  6. @Leadership Matters you are 100℅ correct. When the history of the UPP is written Harold will have to take much of the blame for the present decline in the position of the party. He had so much potential but is a weakling and allowed people like Gisele Issac to get away with murder. Damani Tabor who was an insider captured the issue most correctly with Harold’s stupid philosophy that there is an “I” in Team. That idiocy was part of his downfall.

  7. @ Born & Bred Antiguan, you are putting the rest of us to shame with your nonsense. Pity you can’t be deported!

  8. Joanne Massiah: "You want to entrust the economy to a man whose first degree is in ROCKS and DIRT?" 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Joanne Massiah: "You want to entrust the economy to a man whose first degree is in ROCKS and DIRT?" 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

    Go back to Canada Lovell!!! You done enough DAMAGE TO ANTIGUA!!

  9. @ BRIXTONIAN

    Welcome back. You got so many blows that you went in hiding. Hope you have been reading the DOWNFALL of your UPP. Anyways welcome back for more blows.
    I am happy you are back before the BY-ELECTION.

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