Leader of the PDA. Oswald Skippings is 2nd leader of a political party to have commented on the UK’s exit from the EU and is sounding off on on the grave effects that this will have on the TCI.
In his release to RTC, Mr. Skipping says and I quote:
The recent advent of BREXIT afforded the British people to make a bold move to determine their own destiny as they decided by majority, and to the dismay of their Prime Minister, to exit the European Union.
While the British populace is uniting and embracing the timely opportunity to take authority and control their destiny as it relates to issues such as their money, their immigration, their security, their jobs and their social services, the British Government and its local administrators in collusion with locally elected officials, seem hell bent on opening up our doors for mass immigration to the extent of widening the franchise, leaving our borders unprotected facilitating the escalation of mass and dangerous crime, taking away from us the control of our money, and giving our jobs to foreign work permit holders thereby impoverishing and disempowering our people.
This British European Union shift has changed the financial dynamics of the entire world however temporary and slowed down commerce and brought the British pound down to its lowest in history, not to mention the escalation of the volatility of the financial market. Consequently, the threat of a United Kingdom breakup has become even more real and does nothing to calm the fears of the global community including the Turks and Caicos and its remaining Overseas Territories.
Moreover, during the next few years while Britain negotiates what their actual relationship with the EU will be, the possibility of an even greater economic fallout is possible. One possibility is that our free-flow immigration relationship with the EU will automatically change along with the likely British passport changes and the future of EU grant funds to the Turks and Caicos will also be uncertain.
Closer to home, the economic stability of the United States is heavily dependent on its ability to negotiate mutually beneficial arrangements with allies and other friendly jurisdictions and because of the global political, economic and industrial intricacy, that ability may now decrease, not to mention that when the US sneezes, the Turks and Caicos catches influenza.
However, regardless of past mistakes and misdeeds, we cannot as a Turks and Caicos people continue any longer to be apathetic and complacent and remain immersed and lamenting in our dreadful past, we must awake and arise and take our country back. This is a wake up call for our clueless Turks and Caicos leaders to end this political mediocrity and step up both their political and economic governance to avoid a relapse into recession and economic disruption.
Because of a Draconian Colonial constitution and an impotent political directorate, we are being left drifting, merely going along with the flow and now more than ever, we need gifted, bold and visionary political leadership with proactive, creative and innovative ideas. Leaders who are able to plan and put in place strong economic, social and political strategies and progressive policies that would demonstrate that we are prepared for self-determination when the Turks and Caicos people so decide.
Therefore for this upcoming election, the Turks and Caicos electorate has to become more politically conscious and much more election savvy in order to end our subservient and powerless status and secure a comfortable, safe and prosperous niche in this global community, a universally coveted position that only the Progressive Democratic Alliance is equipped and committed to accomplish in these difficult and trying times for our Beautiful By Nature Turks and Caicos Islands and its disempowered people.
God bless our Turks and Caicos! End Quote.
Many of you may recall that the Premier the Hon. Dr. Rufus Ewing responded on the exit on Expression of Friday Morning last.
