Hon Skelton fires back: "I left with my intellectual properties"
Hon Skelton was last night, January 13, 2019 speaking at Brewers Bay and was responding to Hon Walywn’s assertion that he was in fact taking credit for NDP successes and not his own.
Hon Walwyn, in a previous rant had said in relation to Hon Skelton, “if you fly out of our nest you can’t walk with our straws, you have to look for your own straws.”
Flew The Coop
Addressing a section of the Second District constituency at Brewers Bay, Hon Skelton said, “I understand saying now that I flew the coop and I need to leave the straws…But all I want to tell them, I didn’t go with their straws, all I went with is my intellectual property… The intellectual properties are what I have in my head, how to get things done.”
He continued saying “…here I am with my intellectual property to assist the PVIM in doing what is good and right for the people of these Virgin Islands (VI).”
The night was Second District Representative, Honourable Melvin M. Turnbull aka Mitch's annual Party and State of the District Address where Hon Skelton and another NDP defector Hon Archibald C. Christian(AL), were present, addressing the people of the District—lobbying support for PVIM.
Full Slate
On the very platform, Hon Skelton also confessed to leaving the NDP after failed efforts to ascend to the position of Party Chairman at the internal elections Mid-2018.
Although only announcing a slate of seven Candidates, Hon Skelton is confident the PVIM will be having more soon.
“We have more candidates coming…All can’t come at the same time…We have some coming…We will launch them shortly.”
Further blasting the NDP—of which he is a founding member—Hon Skelton charged that the current NDP is getting the people of the Territory caught up in the minor things, while there are major difficulties facing the territory.
“So they do things like get you to clean ghuts and cut bush while you are much, much better than that…You can do much more than this.”
High Paying Jobs
He commended his team of Candidates who left high paying jobs to fight for their country.
“And I say they are not going to be about to attract those kinds of salaries as elected officials.”
According to Hon Skelton the backbenchers of Government and Opposition members attract a salary of $36K annually.
“That’s their pension when we calculate it…A similar job in government getting $80k and $90K…A Minister gets $60K salaries, the Permanent Secretaries and the heads of departments get a $120K to $130K.”
He also debunked the notion that the PVIM is an exclusive club putting Virgin Islanders against Non-Virgin Islanders.
“They need to stop,” he said, calling it an attempt to put enmity between him and boyhood days to present day friends for political gains.
“It needs to stop and it needs to stop now.”
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