‘Mitch’ cites frustration in abandoning NDP Gov’t
Hon Turnbull, in a video called ‘Inside the PVIM: #AskMitch’, –released via the party’s Facebook page on December 6, 2018– cites lack of empowerment, frustration and no accountability in the NDP as the driving force for his departure.
Against beliefs
“Internal election has nothing to do with why I left the NDP, why I left the NDP is, I’ve been serving with the government for the last almost three and a half years, and in 2015 when I joined the team, I believed that it was, in fact, the best hope for the BVI, but after a year I started speaking out, I started seeing some of the things that goes against my belief,” Hon Turnbull said in the video.
Turnbull said his vocal tirade was not only privately, but publically as well, “I started speaking out, privately as well as publicly and the way the NDP is headed, the way the leadership of the party has been going, and the entire government has been going, is not in the best interest of the country,” he revealed.
“[It is] basically where we are having people depend on us, [not] empowering them, not giving them their opportunities to lead and see us in a position where we are responsible, where we are held accountable to them,” a frustrated Turnbull cited.
Clear position
In a PVIM press conference on December 5, 2018, during a media engagement with Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) leaders, Turnbull said his position was clear prior to leaving the NDP, as he wanted to address the issues.
“I made my position clear to the Chairman of the party… If we are to go forward I need to understand how we are going to address the issues,” he told the media.
“My reason for leaving the NDP is a host of reasons in terms of frustration, and not being able to do the things that we set out to do for the people,” Hon Turnbull said in the Facebook video.
“For example, transparency… reporting on the proper finances of the country, just following through on basic principles of what it means to stand on integrity… don’t say that you are going to do something in a certain manner, [then] it goes completely wrong, not having the decency… not having the courage to even accept you were wrong.”
“Apologize for your wrong and make the corrections, we [NDP] have been going on the wrong place for far too long,” he said.
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YOU SEEM TO BE HUNGRY FOR POWER. BUT THAT SEEMS TO BE THE TREND WITH TORTOLA PEOPLE.
STATUS AND WHO HAS WHAT AND WHO IS WHO MATTERS MORE TO YOU PEOPLE. TO MANY PEOPLE COMPETING WITH EACH OTHER ON THAT LITTLE ISLAND, AND VERY GREEDY. AFTER ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED IN JUST OVER A YEAR, YOU WOULD THINK THAT YOU PEOPLE WOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR LIFE. YOU GUYS HAVE ONLY GOTTEN WORSE..