And, depending on who you listen to - the House Meeting was a dud because the Prime Minister didn't pull the trigger on an early election.
Now, he never said he would, but speculation was rife that he might - yet, he didn't! But speaking with the press after the meeting, he conceded that an early election is a likelihood. How early? Well, that's another question:
Jules Vasquez
"It is in the air that the election is somehow eminent. Are you incline to do so eminently?"
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"Well I will say this, I don't expect to wait until the last moment. I certainly feel that the stars are in the right alignment for us to think in terms of an election next year, certainly not 2013. But when next year is all together a different matter. As of now the inclination certainly is to have the municipal elections which will provide a kind of test to tell the government where things really stand and then depending on those elections to call the general elections either a little sooner than would normally be expected or a little later in the year still thinking though that ultimately I wouldn't want to wait until 2013. I my view as of now certainly elections next year more towards the second half of the year but of course in politics everything is timing. I ask that nobody hold me to that because I will have to assess things on a moment to moment basis."
