{"id":68131,"date":"2012-07-12T06:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=68131"},"modified":"2012-07-12T06:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:51:21","slug":"dennis-joseph-weekly-uwp-a-short-history-of-action-transaction-and-illusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/dennis-joseph-weekly-uwp-a-short-history-of-action-transaction-and-illusions\/","title":{"rendered":"DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: UWP &#8211; A short history of action, transaction and illusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67106\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67106\" title=\"dennis joseph\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph.jpg 193w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dennis-joseph-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Joseph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the twilight years of the Dominica Freedom Party and during the struggle of a deflated Dominica Labour Party to \u2018pump up our volume\u2019 a new bunch emerged. They loudly called themselves the United Workers Party.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP demonstrated a relentless surge toward their goal with a display of \u2018Fear no more\u2019 advertising and promotion techniques that razzle-dazzled the electorate causing even Granny to utter in creole, &#8220;Yo ni un force oui papa\u201d (They have a powerful drive). Bob Marley\u2019s \u2018One Love\u2019 was a rallying musical call to all the disillusioned of our land and infused with an almost miraculous life force they stormed through the political firestorm and in just 7 years\u00a0 moved in 1995 into the government seat.<\/p>\n<p>The UWP was then a party of action and its quick trigger \u201ctou patou\u201d all over approach to development caught the national imagination. It seemed the UWP would be in government for the next umpteen years until as Granny would say,\u201d Cock grow teeth.\u201d In 54 months a confident UWP called for elections and they were kicked out.<\/p>\n<p>But the energy did not fade and they appeared to be still the action party expecting to be back in office by the next poll. It did not happen\u00a0 but something else did.<\/p>\n<p>The party in its change of leader struggle became a party not of aggressive outward action but of inner transaction and in the transaction period passed leadership from Edison James, to uh..uh..perhaps Julius Timothy but after\u00a0 bitter name calling\u00a0 settled on Earl Williams instead who promptly vanished in disgrace and so in great haste to a reluctant even unprepared\u00a0 Ron Green until\u00a0 it has come full circle to a reluctant Edison James again and even some wonder if this is closure.<\/p>\n<p>It is that period of transaction that caused the party to have divided focus and lose the next elections. It seemed all was lost and \u201cdiwi cho all fall down\u201d would replace the Workers song.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when\u00a0 a few months later the Edison James clarion question from the platform, &#8220;Mr. Skerrit do you have an interest in (certain luxury) lilac\u00a0 villas?\u201d rocked the Labour Party administration and threatened a meltdown, it appeared the UWP was back on horseback and the DLP would\u00a0 soon be taking a dose of disappearance without\u00a0\u00a0 water. Then the PM consolidated his move and he took them to the next level. He gave them a target they could not ignore &#8211; a radio show with controversial hosts-as he slid away into the background. The special hosts called themselves folk tale animal names like Lapere and Tig; the opposition labeled the radio shows\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cthe animal program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while the political theatre runs on a daily basis with the same political gladiators throwing out accusations and allegations at each other the people look upon the spectacle and ask, \u201cWhat next for Waitikubuli?\u201d Is it General Elections campaigning all year round in and out of season? Will there be a change of government and even so will anything change?<\/p>\n<p>Those who advocate change would do well to understand that real change must first take place in the heart and minds of the people. If the UWP is to make a significant dent in the tight hold of the administration on the next elections they must move back into aggressive mode with new voices, new faces well organised outings, and try to regain first blood.\u00a0 The old must become new again.<\/p>\n<p>Battling with the \u201canimal program\u201d has been a trip to nowhere. That battle has worked for the PM in 2009 and still does. The UWP must assertively push forward its leader as the alternative and insistently show how he is better for the job not just assume that people know. Elections season is no more than 30 months away. The focus must be on\u00a0 plans for the development of Waitikubuli because a UWP \u2018Let\u2019s outdo Tony\u2019 addiction can turn reality into a rose coloured illusion as it did in 2005 and 2009 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Labour Party should be very careful. The PM implies that\u00a0 his large collection of ministers are not fully working, we know\u00a0 the economy is not\u00a0 working, the last Commissioner knows\u00a0 the police force is not working properly as he tells us\u00a0 officers are in bed with drug dealers, the Public Works is not working, tourism is hardly working, the farmers bitter experience is\u00a0 that agriculture is not working and our youth have given up looking to find work but on the other hand VAT is working, the underground drugs and money laundering economy is working, the bobol and illicit gains factory is working and the passport business is thriving.<\/p>\n<p>Yet despite all of this everybody seems to be shrugging \u201cSo what, who else?\u201d It is this \u201cso what, who else\u201d attitude from the people that breeds arrogance.\u00a0 But that kind of arrogance brought about by too many easy successes can have its price and could cause an addiction to power which can itself create a rose coloured illusion of invincibility.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chinese saying, \u201cThe same water that floats the boat can sink the boat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The views and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of dominicanewsonline.com or its advertisers.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the twilight years of the Dominica Freedom Party and during the struggle of a deflated Dominica Labour Party to \u2018pump up our volume\u2019 a new bunch emerged. 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