If you go by the numbers, he's the current UDP's most popular and successful politician - but - as we told you last night - five term representative Patrick Faber's candidacy has been rejected by the UDP's nominations committee.
And today that made the political King of Collett do a desperate thing - the kind of thing that only minor political figures like Mark King are forced to do: he led a protest at his own party headquarters.
He timed it to disrupt a UDP press conference on national issues staged by Party Leader Shyne Barrow. And that it did successfully do - as Faber and a rag-tag team of supporters made a ruckus outside. Courtney Menzies was there:
Patrick Faber is a man on a mission. After being rejected from running for the UDP in the next general elections, he returned to the party's headquarters - the first public appearance he's made since he showed up in the House in July - to reclaim the keys to Collet.
And he came in like a wrecking ball - standing under the scorching sun with a group of protestors to crash the UDP press conference, hosted by the Leader of the Opposition.
And, ever the politician, he energized the crowd and even got some passersby to honk in support.
He even tried to get those who were a part of the press conference to mutiny against the current leader - though that didn't go over too well.
And after about fifteen minutes of Faber's version of anarchy, he pulled away in his Haval, seeking refuge in the one community that still embraces him wholly - Collet. It was there that he spoke to the media:
Patrick Faber, Collett Representative
"We made a very impromptu, just a little glimmer of what is possible last minute when it is we are uncomfortable. in fact in ordinary times I wouldn't go out there in front of the UDP press conference to make noise. I wouldn't do that, that's disrespectful to may party. But I am now convinced that the people who are running this party don't have any regard for the rules."
"When you see these folks gathered here today this is but a minute fraction of the number of supporters that I have in this constituency. We tried to give peace a chance - there are things that we had to speak about and of course the most recent thing is that they will say to me as a long standing member, general of this party that we no longer hold you in good standing in this party - and that you are no longer in good standing that you helped to build from the shambles."
Faber had about 15 supporters at the protest and about the same at his constituency office today.
When we went back up to the party leader's press conference and tried to ask Shyne Barrow about the Faber action, he strictly refused to comment on any internal party matters.
