What the United Democratic Party needs now is love, says Michael Finnegan

Published by BBNTEAM at November 29, 2024

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Posted: Friday, November 29, 2024. 6:29 pm CST.

By Aaron Humes: Former Mesopotamia area representative Michael Finnegan managed to bring the United Democratic Party (UDP)’s two leading horses, Moses “Shyne” Barrow and Tracey Taegar-Panton, to the cooling waters of his biography launch on Wednesday – but he couldn’t make them drink, that is, talk to each other directly.

With the leadership of the party up for debate in the courts, many are not holding out hope for a UDP worthy of its name at the polls for the next general election.

He took no sides, but Finnegan told Channel 7 News that the party now needs love: “Love, love is the most important word. I love people, I literally love people. I don’t know how to hate, and that is what I am trying to instil in the UDP. The UDP will go nowhere as long as it is divided.”

But with that love comes a dire warning: “If the UDP comes together, there might be a glitter of hope. If they remain the way they are, we are looking at a Barbados situation or a Grenada situation or a 1961 Belize situation.”

Finnegan referred to the recent times political parties in the Caribbean failed to win any seat in their respective lower chambers. In British Honduras in 1961, the then National Independence Party (NIP) didn’t win a seat, so the colonial Governor had to appoint two Opposition members, Phillip Goldson and Horace Young, to serve. Additionally in Jamaica in 1983, the People’s National Party (PNP) boycotted general elections over a bloated voters’ list. The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) led by Edward Seaga swept all 60 seats against minimal opposition.

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