June 21, 2022
Haven’t we had enough of Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley popping up everywhere now? Every platform, every event, she is there and it’s giving a cheesy feeling now. I’m sure there are other statespersons available who can speak a word.
The novelty just can’t seem to wear off on the lady with some people. Ok, we get it- she has a vagina and a politician and her country’s leader. We get it! But at some point and time it has to end and the over-doing her in every sector of Caribbean life is becoming nauseating. In fact, it’s already nauseating. Fact is she is a regular politician, vagina aside. She should be treated like one, with respect for her guile and craftiness and not exulted because she has different genitalia than the garden variety politician.
Why I say this is because I know how some of “our people” *rolls eyes* get to praising these mere mortals and lose all of their common sense. They lionize the Black Ceasar, and in this case, the Black Queen and neglect to hold these mortals to account and when their hearts are broken, they start making a whole heap of noise and want someone to listen to them cry and simper. God bless their hearts!
While she is refreshing, when you boil down some of her political rants, they are either rehashing the problem or saying what these other politicians were too afraid to say, but the people knew and have been saying. She is kind of empty, but the international media are in love with a strong Black woman in charge that they wet their pants every time she opens her mouth. But to say she comes with fire breathing solutions to solve your problems would be a great stretch.
Down to brass tacks now: What happened to the economic agenda Ms Mottley bragged about when she swept into office the first time? The COVID-19 changed those plans, we understand, but yet again she is not even anywhere close in the vicinity of a credible economic agenda that resembled what she brought to the Barbadian people- Check her party’s Manifesto and then revert to me. We knew some of that in that book was undoable, but it was good politics because people were so tired of the former Prime Minister Freundel Stuart that Ms Mottley, who was campaigning for this job all of her life, just could have walked in and won with relative ease. Of course she crushed the opposition, as a great political tactician would- taking a sledge hammer to an ant, when a newspaper would do.
But, she got to working wih the International Monetary Fund from the first week after her 2018 election sweep. The IMF was not in any of her pronouncements leading up to her first landslide and it reeked of someone taking the easy road to buying a re-election, which is by and large what she did.
But truth be told, IMF programmes does not a healthy economy make. Yes, the IMF helps to put the fiscal house in order, but if the political directorate had the will to do the work necessary for common sense reforms the IMF would not be needed and all IMF money turns into is slush money.