On Wednesday February 20, 2019, the United Kingdom (UK) House of Commons released a report by their Foreign Affairs Committee. This report was entitled “Global Britain and the British Overseas Territiories: Resetting the relationship.” Photo: Internet Source

This is a clear sign of not only new age colonialism, but to be blunt, “White Supremacy” being exerted over us in the Caribbean, with our own distinct regional cultures, by those in Europe. Photo: Internet Source

On Wednesday February 20, 2019, the United Kingdom (UK) House of Commons released a report by their Foreign Affairs Committee.

This report was entitled “Global Britain and the British Overseas Territiories: Resetting the relationship”.

This committee was comprised of 11 UK MPs representing both the Conservative and Labour parties.

In this report there were three key recommendations in regards to the British Overseas Territories (OTs)

1. That the Overseas Territories will be forced to accept and legalize Same Sex Marriages (SSM), no matter if this is against our culture.

2. That the Overseas Territories will be forced to accept Public Registers of Beneficial Ownership, that will only serve to damage our economies.

3. That the Overseas Territories will be forced to allow UK Citizens, to not only vote in our elections but the ability to run as candidates.

Neo-Colonialism

So, what is wrong with this picture?

First and foremost, who are these 11 MPs, based in the UK, with no cultural ties to the Caribbean, to tell us what we have to do?

Not one MP in any of the 14 Overseas Territories can tell the Parliament and by extension, the people of the UK what to do. Not one.

So this is a clear sign of not only new age colonialism, but to be blunt, “White Supremacy” being exerted over us in the Caribbean, with our own distinct regional cultures, by those in Europe.

Let us have a reminder that British slavery days are over since 1834 and we shall not going to bow down to European colonizers any more.

Economic Hurricane 

Secondly, in regards to the Public Registers, this is a clear sign that these folks in the UK are prepared to throw their Overseas Territories, aka colonies, under a bus and severely damage our individual and collective economies.

Take a moment to think about the economic hurricanes that will hit us all, if our financial sectors are damaged.

Below, are examples of what will happen if this comes to fruition:

●             Mass unemployment of Financial Sector professionals

●             Mortgages unable to be paid

●             Tuitions unable to be paid

●             Drop in domestic economic activity

So, does it sound as if these 11 MPs in the UK, have our best interests at heart?

Thirdly and most importantly, In Bermuda, we went through this in our recent history during the 1960s-1980s, where persons from the UK were given Bermudian Status and then allowed to vote after living here for only 3 years.

The goal of that racial gerrymandering led to artificially inflating the voter base for the then UBP and residually for the OBA.

In all reality, this is even worse than the proposed "Pathways to Status" that Michael Fahy and the OBA were attempting to do as this would be the first step towards erasing any form of immigration control for Bermuda and other Overseas Territories.

Order in Council

The next possible step from the UK would be to pass an Order in Council that any British Citizen can freely reside and work in any of the Overseas Territories without a permit.

Essentially, erasing our individual immigration controls.

The irony in all of this is that the UK government is in an internal tailspin with them not even agreeing as to how they will exit the European Union within the next month.

 Adding to their national turmoil, both the Conservative and Labour parties have seen a number of their MPs defect from their ranks within the last few weeks.

So if these MPs in the UK cannot even govern themselves, who are they to attempt to govern us in the OTs?

If there ever was a time for the Overseas Territories to be on the same page politically, it will be now.

It is crystal clear that for our own economic survival, we in the OTs, all elected officials and most importantly, the people themselves, have no choice but to collectively resist by all means, these Foreign Affairs Committee recommendations for social, economic and political re-colonization.