Collet Area Rep Says He Will Never Resign from the U.D.P.

With all the internal wranglings in the U.D.P. over the past few months, the Opposition has whittled to the point where the seating arrangement in the House of Representatives has also been changed. Today the media noted with interest that the Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow has instructed that the Collet and Albert Area Representatives, Patrick Faber and Tracy Taegar-Panton, sit furthest away from him. Interestingly, the representative from Queen Square, Denise “Sista B” Barrow, who has missed all but one sitting, has been moved to sit closer to the leader. Today, however, Faber got up to say he doesn’t care where along the line they put him to sit, but he will never resign from the UDP.

 

Patrick Faber, Area Representative, Collet

“I feel compelled to stand this evening to make it unequivocally clear that my colleague  from Albert and I have not resigned from the United Democratic Party, nor do we accept, Madam Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of our party’s opposition, that we have resigned from the United Democratic Party. I say, Madam Speaker, that we are not aggrieved enough. Even though, I will tell you, that it..”

 

Valerie Woods, Speaker of the House

“Just for clarity of the record, what is the matter of, public importance? We normally ask that that be stated.”

 

Patrick Faber

“The matter of public importance, Madam Speaker, is that the Leader of the Opposition, even though it was not his official presentation, just now when he stood on the adjournment, I would have left it alone, had he not been allowed to say things. And I don’t accuse you, Madam Speaker, you probably did not even know that what matter he would have spoken. In fact, he just snuck it in there. He was actually speaking on the hospital land deal.  But the Belizean people must know, and if that is going to reflect on the record, then we must put on the record that we absolutely have not resigned, and that we reject, and we reject the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the UDP’s position that we have constructively resigned. Just let me, let me, let me illustrate to you, Madam Speaker, because we do have a Member from Mesopotamia.

Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“Please, on a point of order, Madam Speaker, you asked what is the issue of national importance. I still have not heard in that response.”

 

Patrick Faber

“It is a matter of national importanceIt is a matter of national importance, Madam Speaker, when the leader of a political party attempts to have duly elected representatives of his own party be removed, if that is not an emergency for the nation and I don’t know what is.”