UK & Governor have 'knees on VI's collective neck'- Skelton-Cline
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"Every time the United Kingdom uses its cohesive powers, that's a knee on our collective neck. Every time the United Kingdom threatens us or gives us an ultimatum, that's a knee on our collective necks," he said on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.
Skelton-Cline on his radio talk show pointed to issues such as British Overseas Territories (OTs) being forced to sign the Protocols for Effective Financial Management, "that's a knee on our necks," he said.
In addition, he said imperial UK legislation such as ones that affect VI's financial services sector; that can also undermine the economy, are all oppressive strategies of institutional racism to suppress the people of the Territory.
RDA 'a knee on our necks' - Skelton-Cline
Skelton-Cline further pointed out the establishment of the VI Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) as all oppressive institutions in the VI.
"Every time in this recent history where this Governor overrides the Public Service Commission and their recommendations to honour the requests of the newly elected government for their own PS's," he said that is a knee on VI's collective neck.
"Right now the United Kingdom has been non-responsive to the petition of our elected government regarding these same financial protocols, that's a knee on our necks."
Premier can't breathe - Skelton-Cline
The man of the cloth said it is not just George Floyd who couldn't breathe, "we can't breathe our Premier [Andrew A. Fahie (R1)] cannot breathe because we have a Governor with has knees on our necks."
He said the current and previous Governor's alleged interference into the local politics of the democratically elected government are all 'knees on VI's collective necks' while calling on the UK to decolonise the Territory with urgency.
"We must come together and lend our voices and ask the United Kingdom to take their knees off our necks!" Skelton-Cline charged.
A youth organised local march against racial injustice has since been scheduled for Saturday, June 20, 2020, beginning at 2:30 pm at the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park in Road Town and ending at Queen Elizabeth II Park.
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52 Responses to “UK & Governor have 'knees on VI's collective neck'- Skelton-Cline ”
the g******* need to stop blogging piss..He hates Fahie and the VIP government and there are questions being ask about honesty
And it is, as my mother used to say, “uncalled for!”
And, as folks say here, “go siddown”!!
Of course you have no one to help in a crisis, no one keeping an eye on crooked politicians, etc.
complaining.Buy the way, you can’t beat the UK.
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Why can’t someone bell this cat?
Wait! One final question ... when will all this nonsense stop?
I am soo shame of him. His conduct is not pleasing at all. Mr. Skelton, you have change the behavior of our yours since election. It is now over and you are choking us with your knees. Please for heaven sake if you are a man of cloth decease. Go into the highways and byways and do what you are come on this earth to do. "Win the lost". Many of us are suffering and we need to hear God's word. We are on the blocks waiting. Drugs and Woman don't do it. So many of us "youths" are are dying with lost souls. Can't you see it. It is time to leave the politicking and focus on God and he will guide you into putting our country back to what we have. Where were you with the premier to pray for the deliverance of the virus on the shut down? What you need to do is to go on your knees daily interceding for the government and us for a better way forward. It just seems that things getting worst in our country after all that prayers. Did we sincerely pray for repentance or it was just lip service? Please let us get our house in order. (Anger and hatred, let forgive and get ready for his return.
Prayer changes things and I am going to do that.
Let us go into our closets and sincerely prayer for the BVI. We hand two warnings. Flood and Hurricane.>
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How blind are we...looking with your eyes you are blind...Claude is the only one and will be the only one who speaks the truth...the G******* has his own agenda and an ulterior motive...apartheid happened over time...this ****** is here and has agreements with people in the UK to take over this pebble...But Andrew and Claude have their eyes on the pulse...STAY WOKE
It was super-necessary to set RDA the way it was set, otherwise you would have had more "$millon walls".
Please Pastor, stop this race baiting talk. Bite your tongue now and not in 2 months time when is the peak of hurricane season. Fighting racism and xenophobia-discrimination and hostility towards foreigners, should have been an ongoing and constant worldwide approach. Playing race card is not only playing, it is pathetic.
Additionally, he needs to stop flying on other people's kite.