The UDP internal war is playing out in public like a bad soap opera - and though, sometimes we just want to look away - the plot twists just keep coming.
Tonight, Shyne Barrow is the one leading the narrative. You might think the parliamentary Leader of the Opposition would be licking his wounds and preparing to change his license plate after his Party Leader, Patrick Faber, survived a recall convention.
But, instead, Barrow today told us he and Faber's opponents are emboldened after the party leader failed to get 50% of the support from the party's 483 voting delegates:
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"How do you feel in the aftermath of it? you feel disappointed in the outcome?"
Hon. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"No, I feel relatively vindicated - 54% is significant. Delegates still decide not knowing whether it was going to be Perry, Bradley or Shyne still said anybody but him."
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"However, its not enough."
Hon. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"If it were that he got 300 or 400 votes, yes and we got 8e votes, then you could argue and say bwai Shyne da only you di sing dat song. He lost the majority. He didn't even got more than 47%."
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"Yes, he may not have 50% of the delegates supporting him. Accepted, but you all failed to reach the threshold."
Hon. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"We feel embolden, those of us who wants reform, who wants real change - feel embolden by the fact that 54% of the people said no. A majority is a majority is a majority and so as the chairman of the party said that Mr. Faber needs to do come soul searching and I don't think that those therapy sessions are working, because I see all over the media he's taking shots at his colleagues, you know he is running down the delegate list saying that the delegates list are stock. But I'd like to tell him that his mother, his sister, his sister-in-law are on his delegate list. So, he is being disingenuous when he tries to make it seem as if it is not normal practice for all the leaders to put who they deem fit on their delegate list. So we are not walking away, we are going to continue the resistance. 12 months will go by like nothing. The next national convention will be here next year and I will continue to work until then for real change, real reform."
