The Gonsalves Government exists to serve its own people, not the workers it is supposed to represent.
The proceedings in Parliament yesterday, where we saw a Speaker of our House of Assembly suspend proceedings because she didn’t like hearing that one of her own team is being accused of criminal activity, was living proof that if one of their own is a risk they will step up.
At Get Rid Ah Dem, we exist to ask why it is that our Government, elected to represent working people, only acts when it concerns their own.
We’ve seen record levels on unemployment, hundreds of businesses close and more people line up for poor relief payments. Whenever they’ve promised more jobs, it’s been literally on moving sand.
They’ve not looked out for the working person, instead making life harder for them. Decisions to increase the customs charge and petrol prices at the same time will have the worst impact on those who are already unemployed.
But the Gonsalves Government doesn’t seem to care because you’re not one of them.
We’ve seen them look out for themselves before. Ralph started to think about retirement and Camillo needed a job, so he just put his son in the House of Assembly.
Isis Gonsalves needed a job, so Ralph found her one at the United Nations.
Now Senator Morgan needs to keep her job, so Ralph will deliver because she’s loyal to him.
Where are they when you need your job? Nowhere to be found.
Would your job be certain if you were accused of holding someone up at gunpoint?
These are the double standards we’ve come to expect from over 20 years of being let down. When they come into strife, they are looked after. When we come into strife, we are ignored.
This is not acceptable, and we will not have it anymore. Senator Morgan should not be protected by Ralph if she has broken the law. Ralph must focus on the jobs of the people who elect him, not the people he surrounds himself with.