Wickham Warns Serpent Watts Exit Could Destabilize UPP

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Pollster Peter Wickham
Pollster Peter Wickham

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Pollster Peter Wickham says the possible exit of Algernon Serpent Watts from the St. George constituency could further unsettle the United Progressive Party at a delicate moment.

Watts, a first-term MP who won the seat convincingly in the 2023 by-election, has been weighing his political future and was not included on the slate of candidates announced by party leader Jamale Pringle for the next general election. Pringle has since said the party is seeking a replacement.

Watts has indicated he will not contest the next polls, constitutionally due by 2028, citing health reasons, though internal party tensions have persisted.

“If he does leave, it destabilizes the constituency,” Wickham said, noting that while Watts won comfortably, replacing a sitting candidate typically has a disruptive effect.

He added that the UPP is “not exactly in a good position to start with,” and losing a charismatic incumbent could further weaken the party as it heads into an election cycle.

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18 COMMENTS

  1. Serpent might be charismatic, but he dunce like fart. Serpent as an MP has not made a single contribution of note in parliament for 3 years. Even his budget debate contribution last month was a mere regurgitation of the same boring points (Agriculture budget allocation is just to pay staff blah blah blah) he speaks about on radio for last 10 years. Nothing innovative, nothing new.
    Plus Serpent was the only MP who didn’t even speak of what he did in his constituency St. George’s for the last year.
    As a UPP insider, Serpent made the UPP more toxic and dumber. The party only kept Serpent around to have unlimited access to Observer radio and control their newsroom narrative.
    Good riddance to bad rubbish and poor representation. A better candidate will be placed there to represent St. George’s.

  2. Giselle had lost plenty respect for Serpent & didnt want him around on UPP slate no more, and made stuff uncomfortable for him. big factss. Serpy focus on u health and leave them backward people party 2 crumble on its own

  3. Why would anyone listen to anything miss Wickham have to say? She is a known mouthpiece for the ALP.

  4. Mrs Wink-up, is that a professional analysis or a political wish?
    It would please me to know the basis of your ludicrous statement.
    You have heard Serpent say repeatedly that he was not a supporter of Pringle for leadership of the party.
    He followed that up by saying after the leadership race he accepted the leader and has given his all to the partt and leader.
    You are apparently living in the past and hoping that bringing it up will give the ALP a leg up.
    I accept that you love legs up.
    Not this way.
    Not this time.
    Not with the players in the UPP.
    Take that to Italy where your stallion raises your legs.
    You are stationg Watts’ reason for not contesting the next elextions.
    Yet in the same breath you are station though internal party tensions have persisted.
    Please connect those two statements.
    If according to you Watts is the problem wouldn’t his departure be good for the party?
    Even before that can you point anywhere to anything identifying Watts as the destabilizing agent in the party?
    No.
    However for political acceptance and hopes of reviving the dying ALP you are making unfounded statements.
    Are you seeking to be professional at all times or seeking to remain favorable in the eyes of the ALP and on their payroll?
    Watts is nkt being replaced under acrimonious circumstances.
    He has voluntarily and with reasons decided to step aside.
    Do you want him to do like Robin Yearwood?
    Would you prefer he neglects his health and die in office like Gerald Watts?
    Why don’t you go and comment on the gay lifestyle that is prevalent in Bull-bados and leave Antigua’s political life alone.
    You do not live here.
    You are repeating what LaboRATs fed you and without proof checking it claiming it as political gospel and as the foundation of your analysis.
    Woman, go jump over Deep Water Harbour so water fills your from your rear.

  5. Who the hell is Wickham?

    This Gaston Browne stoge has again taken political advantage with his one-sided polls in Antigua for as long as I can remember; and up till now, you still cannot locate his poll findings online.

    Furthermore, this bajan pollster isn’t even taken seriously in his own country, yet he finds he-self in Antigua ah big-up anything ABLP and Gaston Browne do.

    And now Wickham is now back vocalising here on the so-called imminent demise of UPP and their members.

    What an absolute loser – can’t he find anything to report on, or carry out some sort of poll in his country of birth Barbados?

    You would do well to remember Wickham, as your fellow Bajans would say:

    “De higher de monkey 🐒 climb, the more he show he tail” 🤣🤣🤣

  6. Gisele gets what Gisele wants. She has MORE BALLS than the MANicous in the UPP. She wears the pants 👖 while they wear PANTies.

    Gemma Handy run gone, so serpent 🐍 is now the Editor of his own newspaper. Guess that demanding role is taking a toll on his health

  7. I have been a committed PLM/UPP supporter for more than four decades and am a constituent of St George’s. I will never vote ALP under any circumstances. However, if Serpent were to be endorsed again as the candidate for St George’s, I would withhold my vote entirely. That is the depth of my objection.
    I find Serpent wholly unfit for public office. His supposed charisma does nothing to mitigate what I regard as an offensive and immature “rude-boy” political persona, one that falls well short of the standards expected of an elected representative.
    I wrote to Serpent not as a supplicant and not to seek legal advice, but to raise a matter clearly in the public interest. His response—that I should obtain legal advice—was dismissive, evasive, and contemptuous of his responsibilities. It demonstrated a complete unwillingness to engage with constituents or to discharge the duties of his office in good faith.
    This interaction has left me with no confidence whatsoever in Serpent’s judgment, temperament, or suitability to represent the people of St George’s.

  8. Well,well, we’ll! The Winkup is back. This paid,political prostitute, disguised as a pollster, only surfaces when election is imminent.
    Winkup is as believable as the DAWG. Let’s just hope it’s not taxpayers footing the bill for this puppet.

  9. Spot on Whickham. Those who know nothing politically will not be able to accept or deduce from the reality. The UPP is even more fragmented.

  10. The snake is not cut out for politics. Let him.stay on radii. He’s not even cut out for farming. The whole of Antigua knows his legacy of ONE PUPAH TREE 🌳 on 26 acres of land.

    Old clothes, dirty pampers etc

  11. @Serpent, Bowen n Richard Lewis BOYCOTT PRINGLE SWEARING IN CEREMONY.

    You need to be more specific. ONE MAN PUPAH TREE so you know he nar produce nutten.

  12. Lmao 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 even worse. Natta fart he contribute to food security

  13. With Shuggy, Lewis, Pringle and Giselle, yes Giselle in the party, I’m highly confident in the UPP going forward.
    Giselle yes, because not only that she’s a strong/smart woman ( I love strong/smart women) she is that thorn in the flesh for this ABLP administration, and I love it. 😂

  14. Why is it that a demon is put in place through education to present their demonic self to us speaking to our kids, little boys at that, to Steer their minds into emulating them?
    This man peter Wickham with the physiques representing a man is married to a man as wife material, in those Muslim countries he would have the privilege to face decent normal spiritual minded people. And he is even paid by the tax payers to model himself as a batty boy.

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