If UK wants to help OTs 'they have to look @ their individual needs'– Hon Hodge-Smith
“There are opportunities, they all have the necessary skills, all the necessary experiences to guide us and get us over the hump that we are now. They may not want to give us the finance, but at least give us the technical assistance.”
Mrs Hodge-Smith made the comments on the May 22, 2023, edition of Talking Points ,while speaking on the topic of the UK and what more assistance it can provide to Overseas Territories.
“And not just for prison and police, yes we have some issues, but we also have other areas that we can get assistance from,” she said.
OTs have different needs - Hon Hodge-Smith
Mrs Hodge-Smith added, “I think that if the UK generally want to help all the OTs they have to look at their individual needs because the OTs are not all the same, they have different needs,” she added.
According to Hon Hodge-Smith, the UK must therefore look and listen to OT concerns to understand where they are coming from, given the UK and its OT have individual histories.
“There’s nothing more than having your own sense of being you and having your own identity instead of someone else deciding for you, you’re under my rule, you do as I say,” she said.
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Hon Luce Hodge-Smith, the UK does give a rat’s a$$ about the OTs. In fact, they were then willing to cut loose the larger sugar islands in West Indies, some of their most profitable colonies as soon they and slavery ceased to be profitable. They tried to let them go through the West Indies Federation and when that failed it turned to independence. They turn loose countries with poor economies, poor infrastructure, poor healthcare, poor education, etc. These countries are still struggling from the legacies of slavery and colonialism. The UK is still governing the last small remnants of its empire through the Colonialism construct, ie, a racial supremacy/hierarchy. The attitude was that you are an inferior being (equivalent to field animals), an out group, a underclass with a servile role that should know your place. As such, we are Lord of all we survey and we will what to do and what you need and when you will get it , if you get, and how you will. And we will not tolerate your questioning our authority or worse telling us what you want. Know your place boy and don’t be looking me eyes, thinking you are an equal. They still want to behave as if it were 1723. The UK has its own challenges so it does not give a rat’s ass about OTs . And hope their wish is fulfill, ie, all of them declare they want to go independent. A burden and a nuisance lifted.
Try smiling more and doing some chatting work for the less fortunate and keep off social media spreading your hate.
Why don’t they help the BVI. The corrupt, rich. Why wait for U.K. tax payers to subsidise what is already a fairly comfortable living for the majority of BVIslanders (not work permit holders or the minimum wages).