HOW ANTIGUA'S CORRUPT RULING LABOUR PARTY "STEALS" ALL THE YOUNG AND PROMISING LEADERS OF THE OPPOSITION; IT MAKES THEM AN OFFER THEY CANN0T REFUSE

Here is some pure pro-China propaganda published recently by House of Representatives Member DWAYNE GEORGE, who was formerly a rising political leader in the Opposition (UPP) in Antigua and Barbuda, until he jumped ship, and joined the ruling ABLP, the Labour Party. Many of the cream of the crop at the United Progressive Party have strangely switched their political affiliation to ABLP, literally stealing promising future leaders right out from under the Opposition's hands.

The answer reveals that there is a dark side to Antigua's already bare-knuckle politics; George, as well as a number of the bright, up-and-coming UPP politicians, are offered large (under the table) cash payments from individuals acting on the express orders of the country's corrupt Prime Minister, GASTON BROWNE. It is, of course, more money than any of these individuals has ever had in a country with a dysfunctional economy and no middle class; extremely tempting, and Greed rears its angry head more often than not, as these men see how affluent ABLP leaders all are.

Many bright and ambitious UPP leaders are led down the path of corruption which has been plowed for decades by the ABLP, and any chance that a popular budding politician can wreak change in Antigua is quashed, when he transits to the party that wrote the book on corruption.

This, the Dwayne George story, has been seen time and again, and as you can see, Dwayne, who abruptly shifted his political alliance, leaving his UPP friends in the dust, without warning, is only one of many that Gaston Browne has used to strip the Opposition of competent young leadership, and to perpetuate what is essentially a one-party autocracy, masquerading as a democracy, closely allied with the Peoples' Republic of China, Cuba, and the other dictatorships of the world. George's now ABLP-orchestrated political future rests solely on the party's smoke and mirrors, and as change is coming, he will have a long way to fall when it does.