Barbados Labour Party's Economist uses cheap tactic of Homophobia on a Dead Prime Minister
Channel: bajanreporter
Date: 2012-02-17

In Barbados it is claimed one cannot libel the dead, so seeking to capitalise on a cheap Pot Shot at former Colleague David Thompson, the PM who died of Pancreatic Cancer in October 2010, Economist for the Barbados Labour Party - Clyde "Political Quisling" Mascoll - seemed to have implied at least twice that the former leader could have been gay.

This is the same ex-DEM now a rabid Bee who says issues and not mud slinging should be the basis for any Election. He was the only speaker at a St James South BLP Constituency Branch Meeting to use a Power Point to take a long time making a simple statement - while Bajans may make more money now, the current tax regime leaves them with less disposable income than about five years ago.

During the excessively long and placid presentation, Mascoll made a great play of saluting Owen Arthur as an Economist of note, which is rather surprising considering how Arthur dismissed Mascoll as an opportunistic turncoat when he left the DLP to join the Bees while under the post of Opposition Leader, an unprecedented switch under any global form of gubernatorial politics. Thus Owen ended up coining the term of 'political Quisling' for Mascoll, the term Quisling is actually a Norwegian name from World War 2 when a Mayor in Oslo collaborated with the Nazis in exchange for immunity, his surname then became synonymous with being a traitor for profit.

Other lecturers that night included Kerrie Symmonds who alleged he possessed a copy of a letter sent to Freundel Stuart complaining how the Board of the Sanitation Service Authority was being micro-managed by Environment Minister Denis Lowe. Symmonds, an ex-General Secretary of the DLP now a BLP Senator picked by Owen Arthur, stated this Micro-Management if true of a Statutory Board is not only irregular but against the laws pertaining to the Cabinet of Barbados.

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