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| Seen Richard? No? Damn. I shoulda known. |
The result was predictable, but it was amazing in two respects.
The A-Team (that’s what Allen Chastanet’s executive
supporters are called) swept the executive, clearing everyone else out of the
way. That picture of them looking over the Pitons in their promotional posters,
that’s basically the executive.
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| If Flambeaus preferred a deal with the 'Devil' over you, what does that say about you? |
But what was amazing was this.
Each and every one of them got approximately the same number
of votes. In almost every contest where there were only two candidates, the
A-Team won all but 99 of the votes. More than 250 of the 367 delegates in every
constituency in the island, including King’s Castries North and Richard
Frederick’s Castries Central, stuck together in a voting phalanx and ploughed
their way to easy victory.
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| The King is dead! Long live the Chas! |
Labour’s base, meanwhile, continues to hemorrhage support
based on the astute economic analysis that, “Kenny focking up de country.”
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| The Revenge of Compton may be the final victory of Mallet |
Furthermore, the business end of the party, which kept its head down for the
last seven years, is back. The PPP, which was George Mallet’s middle class
party before he agreed to play Robin to Compton’s Bananaman, was practically
the political arm of the Chamber of Commerce types before Bananaman came up
with the winning formula that kept St Lucia Flambeau, almost uninterrupted for
40 years . (Basically, the PPP was to the Chamber of Commerce what Sinn Fein was to the IRA.)With Chastanet as their poster boy, they may have finally open the
window to achieve their secret impossible dream of having George Mallet be
Prime Minister. With no Bananaman to steal the spotlight, the peasants are
finally not on top anymore.
This could also be a problem for Labour as the middle class
they built so assiduously takes hit after hit from this prolonged recession.
With the local big money back on Flambeau’s
side, Labour needs to block off Flambeau’s road back to their former best
friends, the Taiwanese, if they intend not to be completely outspent come the
next election.
But of course, the astute observer would notice that Labour is
remarkably quiet on Flambeau’s change of leadership. Secretly, they wanted
Chastanet to win. Their simple calculation is the Chastanet has proven to be a
loser in elections. They’re betting that he doesn’t dare attempt a by-election
and Chastanet’s team probably agrees that this is way more trouble than it is
worth right now.
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On top of that, word is that Labour has a plan for Flambeau
in the lead-up to the next election. Some of the pieces on their chess board
are already in play. The plan is designed so that anything Flambeau does, short
of replacing everyone who had anything to do with the last government, will
result in devastation for them, even before they arrive at the polls.
Wonder if Chastanet has any idea what he’s dealing with. He
should. But does he know how serious it is? Or is he preparing for their
attack? He should.
Because Labour is already prepared to do to him exactly what
he just did to Stephenson King and Richard Frederick.
ALSO READ:
http://thefloggblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/flogging-it-down-to-marigot.html
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| What me? Plan? I don't know what you're talking about, Jason. |
ALSO READ:
http://thefloggblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/flogging-it-down-to-marigot.html
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