New Leader Shyne Barrow also committed to reforming the election of delegates - though he would not commit to expanding the size of the pool of delegates.
But, let's just say, he's proven early on that his positions can be flexible. We say that because he moved swiftly to purge the central executive of the UDP of Faber loyalists. Now, that truly is par for the course in any political transition - especially an inter-party transition. We've seen it before in the PUP and the UDP.
And that's why we asked Shyne very directly on Sunday if he planned to do the same. And he said he didn't. Here's that back and forth:
Jules Vasquez
"But the first thing you do is you have to flush the loyalists of the former leader and there are many Faber-ites who remain in various senior positions in the party, what will you do now to instil Shyne Barrow's leadership and loyalty at the highest level?"
Shyne Barrow, UDP Party Leader
"You know that is not how I am thinking, I love this party and part of a democracy is that you will have dissent, so my position has never been to have any type of hatred towards people that were not supporting me. So, I say all that to say I am going to sit down, we are going to look at everything. I am more concern about people who were just occupying positions and not working, but is someone was doing an outstanding job in a particular position just because that person may have voted for Tracy or may have been a Faber proponent, my instinct is not to get rid of anyone, that's not how I think, I want whats best for the party and wise people actually take those that were against them and get them to join forces with them."
Jules Vasquez will have the tough questions for Shyne Barrow tomorrow night on Uncut.
