ANGUILLA… THE BRAY THAT ROARED

Though some are still in silly mode, the majority of us here on Anguilla are back to reality. While they are being sued for millions, we are united at roundtables, speaking with one voice, one song, one accord… establishing the kinda atmosphere and Anguilla that will create opportunities for all Anguillians; and having the kinda discussions and building the organizations necessary for the reconstitution of a land we beloved and called home.

Team-AUF is an unavoidable change… a necessity… a team fit-for-purpose… that, what you did… an epiphany for which we now glee and wish well. Marvel, you must Anguillians… as your victory has demonstrated God’s will… so was the past five horrible years of an understatement of incompetence.

The Anguilla United Front is your government because of years of confusion of interest and the convergence of confusional cynical approach to nowhere from an inept Anguilla Utter Mess Administration under the leadership of Dr. Ellis Lorenzo Webster. 

You can be assured that under the competent hands of an Anguilla United Front Administration that full restoration of democracy, good governance, and political stability on Anguilla are in order… you have overwhelmingly voted to restore tranquility and economic prosperity back on Anguilla... notwithstanding the sense of peace we felt since April 22.

… and yet Anguilla rises.

By Realist Spikenice
Representative against Anguilla Utter Mess

AND YET ANGUILLA RISES...

We have learned years ago, working in community organizations like the Sea Scouts, Boys Brigades and the Interact, that progress and change in our country rarely comes from the top down. It's people like you, involving their coworkers, neighbors and friends… change begins with you.

It's a wonderful thing to understand that in theory but it's another to sit in a room full of motivated people, making plans and witnessing the effects of hard work. For us to win this campaign we must not take anything for granted by underestimating the depth of lies and divisiveness, from a confused and utter mess administration here on Anguilla. We must stay strong and build... it will only happen if your sleeves remain rolled up, not ceasing work.

To build on our hope for a better future for Anguilla and its diaspora, we have to take responsibility head on. We want to see all of us as Anguillians in these final days of campaigning, coming together once again in living rooms in that old Anguillian’ fashion… eating our signature rice and peas or fungi with fish. Let’s host each other as brothers and sisters while moving Anguilla in sync. It’s time to replace this 2010 synthetic change with confidence, track record, materializing set objectives - a program mapped out which will serve the interest of all Anguillians in 2015 and beyond. You want this because you believed so deeply that in the face of impossible odds, people who truly love this country can change it.

These election campaigns have sparked much controversy, and unprecedented waves of love and oneness coming together to eradicate a national menace… an utter mess administration. But we still have a few more days to go… It's up to us to harness that energy in crossing that finish line on April 23 morning. We have an incredible opportunity to change politics on Anguilla forever, where people genuinely care about our common future and believe that we have the power to shape the kind of society in which we live.

Thank you very much for your support, and see you at the polls my fellow Anguillians.

By: Realist Spikenice

Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

SURPLUS BUT UNPAID

Surplus they boast, a stronger house built on a strong foundation. But in reality, this Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration has shown nothing but incompetence, irresponsibility and poor leadership, responsible for the lack of any foundation at all, with loads of squabbling and confusion for five weary years and countless problems remaining to be solved: lack of jobs opportunities, shattered schools and hospital, disgruntled unpaid teachers and other civil servants, healthcare depreciation, roads unrepaired or needed resurfacing, misappropriation of funds, lacking airlift to and from Anguilla, water rationing, energy high cost leaving thousands of families sleeping in the dark, high duties on food leaving babies going to sleep hungry and kids going to school without breakfast, abandoned goods and services for the lack of knowhow and government financing, faulty equipment with serious health and safety risk, and loads of other empty promises. 

Surplus but unpaid… then they ridiculed and called you Puppets, Beggars and Jackasses.

The reality is that Anguilla faces huge challenges ahead for any new administration… but rebuilding is also an opportunity. Are we prepared to endure another five years of torture and poverty under this cartographic failed administration, or take the chance to create something stronger, a foundation as a rock on which dreams are founded. Our focus must be on strengthening the fundamental elements which all communities need to thrive: maintaining local law and order, rebuild our hospital, encouraging our doctors and nurses back to provide reliable healthcare, attracting top educators and restoring schools that will give our children the perfect chance to succeed and compete in the global market, clean drinking water, energy, food… access.

These are the failures which expose this AUM’s arrogance and incompetence which must be eradicated, a detachment from the lives of real people and an indifference to the consequences for the least fortunate among us. In rebuilding Anguilla, we need a team who will renew that commitment to one another… a team who will return to the core principle of our great nation by honoring our responsibility to our fellow citizens. The rude-awakening is that our failure is a UK liability in waiting.

My fellow Anguillians we need a team who will be our keeper, that will mitigate such an awakening, who understands, that foundation which makes all of us stronger…

Are you the one?

By: Realist Spikenice

Candidate against Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

BOP THEM (F)LIES, AND SWEEP THEM OUT!

This election, the attacks are vile and endless, where the respectable are disrespected by the disingenuous. Some of you may have heard about the disgusting lies perpetrated by the deceptive AUM's influential peddlers, or certain accreditation seeking serpents with their phony and bias analysis from their non-refereed sources - twisting arms trying to distort the facts and savage our efforts to bring civility back in politics on Anguilla. These attacks have been perpetrated to disrespect and smear our leader’s christian faith and deep patriotism, and distort his record of more than two decades of humble leadership in public service.

Their attacks are nothing short than being childish and pathetic. The same immature and bitter tactics this confused administration has used again and again when you rightfully and repeatedly sentenced them to the wilderness, soon to be returned. I know that our distinguished leader, Mr. Victor Franklin Banks, is committed to fighting every smear every time. He'll fight hard and stand up for the truth, but he can't do it alone. Therefore, whenever you hear the truth from Team-AUF’s platforms we need you to email it to your address books - print it out and post it at work - talk to your families, relatives and neighbors - call your local radio stations or write a letter to the editor of the Anguillian. If lies can be spread virally, let's prove to the cynics that the truth can be every bit as persuasive as it is powerful.

The power in the voices of the people is their commitment to bringing our country together to meet the challenges we face, though knowing that power gives up nothing without a struggle - and to win the chance to bring back civility in government on Anguilla, we must first defeat the hateful tactics that have been used to tear us apart for too long now. We're determined to turn the page on an era of divisive politics, that when we hear these attacks, we will take decisive action immediately with truths.

The fight for Anguilla and its people is in full swing. Like the last, we won't let them steal this election with their lies, distortions, and their Shangonism. And what we have learned is that these attacks, no matter how bogus they are, can spread and take root if they go unchecked. The truth matters, but how you fight the lies matters even more. We must be determined never again to lose any election to a lie on Anguilla by stopping this futile bunch at the gates on Election Day.

This campaign is not simply a fight to win an election... its a fight for survival. Get on-board my people... it's all about you Anguilla!

By: Realist Spikenice

Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

A PROSPEROUS ANGUILLA MAKES ALL OF US VICTORS...

A Right Honourable And Distinguished Gentleman:

Mr. Victor Franklin Banks - It's An Honour To Have Served

In Every Successful Government on Anguilla!

Mr Victor Franklin Banks’ performance in governments stood above the competition in this general elections, as the record shows the kinda qualities and judgments that will make him an excellent Chief Minister. His passion and conviction, patriotism and commitment to Anguilla’s economic development and sustainability, his ability as a unifier in maintaining political stability on Anguilla, his experience and qualifications, his charisma, respectability and great ability to communicate effectively at all levels makes him an excellent CEO of Government.

This is no comparison to his opponents' sporadic confusion and confrontational behaviors, and their inexperiences and rookieness. Anguillians are unified about the kind of change in attitude of the leaders representing the Anguilla Diaspora, and have decided to choose a candidate best suit, after five long years of an embarrassing debacle on Anguilla. Mr. Banks has shown commitment, steadfastness and ability over the years of experience to work diligently unbiased across lines of party, race, and religion to produce meaningful and lasting results, for over 25 years in governments on Anguilla.

WHEN WE WERE PROUD: 

Dale Pusching, Hon. Victor F. Banks, Hon. Donna Banks, 
Amelia Vanterpool-Kubisch, John Benjamin, Marie Walker 

- an Anguilla Tourism Executive.

Working across party lines is not easy, but with such an accomplished leader at the helm of Team-AUF, it continue to reinforce the message of unity and commitment to bring together the best minds in reaching such greatness on Anguilla. True, real, and honest change we believe is a vigorous in-depth debate on the various issues affecting Anguillians, while delivering the best solutions incorporated from the brightest and smartest among us.

Peace, political stability, economic growth and a nation’s prosperity is a vote for Team-AUF, because it's all abut you Anguilla!

By: Realist Spikenice

Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

WITH THEIR STRIPES WE WILL BE HEALED!

The Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration and their influential peddlers still measure success solely by falsifying arithmetic ie. everything calculated as a catastrophic failure - economy, tourism, education, well-being, health, crime etc. And though we hold our own on that scorecard, we can prove a much more powerful point. We can prove that it's the success of the people that measured our excellence prior to 2010. 

So while the AUM continue to fabricate and propagate their mountains of lies and innuendos in this general election... the say-anything-to-win whispering campaign to no where... Team-AUF is on a course of setting goals in support of you the electorate who seeks a new kind of politics in the depth of people's commitment to political stability, economic development, peace, and a nation’s possibilities and prosperity.

We can do this with your help; there's power in numbers. If you're ready to be part of Team-AUF, now is the time to stand up and be counted, my fellow Anguillians. I know what I'm asking for is hard... that the AUM's politics and politicians have disappointed you so badly, to the point where sometimes it seems easier just to tune out and walk away.

But what you have to remember is that when you walk away, the same old politics wins every time like they did in 2010 - the nutshell-mentality fear-mongering approach with their decades of false starts, disunity, trials and failures delivering failed leadership and governments - the politicians who lie for a living, steal, the Custom' Duties evaders, the wife-beaters, the women haters, the adulterers, the animal cruelters, the sexual assaulters, the illegal substance pushers. That's what all the people who benefit from politics on Anguilla as a game are counting on.

That's why we need you. That's why we cannot do this alone. Team-AUF is not just asking you only to trust its ability to restore good government and change this country forever – it's asking you to trust in yourself; in your own instincts; in your own sense of possibilities; in your own sense of what's right for you and generations of Anguillians.

If you're ready to go down this path, there are thousands of others ready to go with you right now, here on Anguilla! So, get on-board my people... It's all about a Diaspora!

By: Realist Spikenice 

Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

CONFIDENT AND UNAFRAID

The Anguilla United Front (AUF) continue to build the largest support in campaign history on Anguilla, while our opponents and their influence-peddlers are still in their rut... a convergence of confusion.

The comparison is simple – an Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) empty legacy... a disunited political approach to nowhere or a fit-for-purpose Team-AUF who is committed to major development projects to be implemented following this forthcoming general election:

• Procurement of investment for at least two marinas within the first two years of office.

• Extend the Clayton J Lloyd International Airport and improve aerodrome facilities within the first three years.

• Government to facilitate and support investment with the private sector in developing an Anguillian scheduled airline service to provide better access to the hubs in the region, especially St Maarten/St Martin within the first two years. This will involve all local investors in the industry.

• Construct The Valley Road Development Project within the first three years of the AUF’s term.

• Build new terminal facilities at Blowing Point within the first three years.

• Construct a Commercial Port Facility at Corito within the AUF’s term. This project will involve a holistic development plan for the area including solutions to the landfill site; access roads; a study of the feasibility of a cruise facility in the area; and a plan to mitigate the negative impacts on the residents in the area.

• A major social development project to establish cafeterias in all the schools within the next two years. This will be informed by a proper nutritional plan to be developed and managed by the Department of Food and Nutrition.

The Team-AUF has long turned the page - the kind of politics based on the idea that we are all connected as one people, that we all have a stake in one another... you can count on politics once again. We strongly believe that ordinary Anguillians like you can change our country.

Sadly the AUM’s position remains status-quo with their empty say-anything-to-win, can’t-do, won't-do, won't-even-try style of politics on Anguilla.

It's all about you my fellow Aguillians...


By: Realist Spikenice
Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration 

YOUR BRAYS WILL BE ANSWERED!

Your generosity is what will make it possible to mount a winning campaign in this general elections. Thank you for taking the most extraordinary and deeply humbling time to take ownership of this campaign in such huge numbers we've been witnessing over the past few weeks in our political process. It means our campaign has more supporters, and it’s a wake-up call to our current politics and the wishful thinking of the dove under the tree. 

While our opponents are in government grandstanding, we've demonstrated that we've defied the pundits’ expectations and turned the political process on its head - now it’s time to build on our milestones of success - that Victor Franklin Banks​ is clean, McNiel Rogers​ is honest, and Curtis Richardson is innocent.

It means ordinary people like you and I will no longer be taken for Jackasses; that we are coming together in unprecedented numbers to demand economic growth and prosperity, tranquility, and stability in the restoration of good governance on Anguilla.

It means that you've clipped the DOVE, defied the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) and their influential peddlers - rejecting their cynicism and negativity, and embracing the hope and confidence that the Anguilla United Front (AUF) Team is fit-for-purpose on day 1 in office - a united team of professionals that you can trust to take us forward and continue changing things for the better, on Anguilla​.

We are building this movement so big, so deep, and so personal that even our youths like Shamica ain't silent no more. Those silent stories that ring true with passion, and a hunger for continuity, are all out now in droves standing up and being counted in this general election, fully aware that the stakes are too high and will not be auctioned to a set of vile bidders in this up coming general elections.

But even though so many of us share a common goal, our success is not inevitable. While everyone is marveling at our numbers and patting us and each others' on their backs, we still need to continue focusing on building and organizing,, and remind the electorate to look how long they were taken and threaded like Jackasses - so much so that they believed that even a Poodle was qualified.

We know that working together with a common purpose can continue transforming communities; and the same is true for our country. We need to continue reaching out to our friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors, identifying our common grounds and working together for the common good on Anguilla.

With such solidarity and a well organized AUF-Team under the stewardship of Mr. Victor Franklin Banks, we cannot thank you enough for your generosity and continue support to get Anguilla back on track. It’s impressive and inspiring, but we have a few weeks more to go still.

By: Realist Spikenice

Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

HIDE-AND-SEEK POLITICS ON ANGUILLA MUST END TOO

THIS IS NOT PARTISAN

Politics is too important to be left to Politicians - your life, your future and generations literally depend upon it. Real change only occurs when people like yourself stand up and be counted. We must ensure that hide-and-seek childish politics be discontinued on Anguilla by introducing fix term elections dates. In the UK, following the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, the dates of the General Elections are set in advance. It is time that we mature to such levels going forward, limit the insults from your politicians, and demand that the electorate are well aware way in advance on the date of General Elections. It is time that the election dates be set by our Supervisor of Elections in accordance with constitutional parliamentary terms, by similar Act on Anguilla, or by Order in Council (which is too often necessary to enforce commonsense in Overseas Territories). This, in my view, is of national crisis level and need urgent attention.

A Fixed-term Parliament Act will have a major impact on the timing of parliamentary elections on Anguilla. The Act will set the date for general election every fifth year thereafter. Early elections can be held only if a motion for an early general election is agreed either by at least two-thirds of the whole House or without division or; if a motion of no confidence is passed and no alternative government is confirmed by the House within a certain time set.

... I'm just saying.

By: Realist Spikenice
Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THEY WERE COOKING?

AUM plans folded...

The Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration's nutshell mentality is campaigning in this election for those who benefit from politics as a game - the selfish special-interest industry on Anguilla... you know them, also known as the ones who influence them to say-anything-to-win dirty kinda politics.

However, the Anguilla United Front (AUF) is not going to play that game. We are making it abundantly clear that people like you have always and will always dictate Anguilla’s policies. We're going to continue transforming the political process by bringing together the best brains on Anguilla. We believe in honest vigorous in-depth debate on the various issues affecting Anguillians while delivering the best solutions offered. We will be honest about the choices and the challenges we face, listen to you and learn from you, even when we disagree.

To do this, we need to dramatically multiply the number of stakeholders because the only way we can win is by making this campaign belong to as many people as possible. Because its all about you, and your demands are simple.

The AUF will continue to deliver those demands: continue leadership which ensures that the work of the people is properly done and done properly - quality leadership with the qualifications a nation so yearns – the kind of leadership that elevates, with associated respectability; equal opportunity for all at home and abroad with the hope that their voice matters in a political process that too often leaves too many Anguillians out; legislation; security; reliable healthcare, an education that will give our generations the chance to compete and succeed globally.

You can take ownership of good government. It’s definitely no turning back to a failed utter mess administration. It means that you the people would have made history and took control of your destiny.

Get on-board, we must do this together..

By: Realist Spikenice
Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

YOU'RE NOT JACKASSES...

Pasquale (Pat) Minicucci, B.Comm, FICB, ICD.D Owner
at Minicucci Coaching & Consulting - former Senior Vice
President Caribbean Region for Scotia Bank; and the then
Honorable Victor Franklin Banks: Minister of Finance, Economic
Development, Investment and Tourism.

Mr. Victor Franklin Banks is that kind of special leader with an amazing ability to bring people to the table from across party lines in maintaining political stability and economic prosperity on Anguilla. With such highly qualified leadership and team of professionals, properly vetted, organized and fit for purpose, It's humbling and inspiring, but more than anything, it's an awakening for each one of us here on Anguilla.

It’s embarrassing for too long now, that while an intelligent globe seeks to select their elites to compete and lead; we were deselecting our elite and electing our non-intelligent animals... while our sisters and brothers in the region laugh at our staged comedy circus.

An AUM case study...A+

But we still have a challenge, an Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration therefore, we are taking nothing for granted as we work hard to get your every last vote in this general elections. We've seen what happens when the will of the people is swept aside. Corruption and incompetence paralyze their will power and ability to think; where standards are diminished, and the fundamental fairness of our society diminishes to benefit a visionless bunch of no-brainers and their influence-peddlers...

Then they label you as Jackasses!

By: Realist Spikenice
Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Administration

CONVERGENCE OF CONFUSION

 "... listen, the Anguilla people are Jackasses. I destroyed Ronald

then give him a holiday. I destroyed ADP, and ANA had to take 

Victor in. I replaced an intelligent radio announcer, put an idiot to 
run in  his place, and the people voted for him resoundingly.   
I raised Eddy, buh tat boi too lazy, I couldn't support him no more. 
Look... the Transshipment was brilliant, but Victor was full of 
tricks... too smart for me, so I had to get rid of it. Whenever 
anything go wrong with my government, I blame you white 
people in London, and you know that the people believes every
word I says. So, what do you call such people other than Jackasses? 
Let me say this before I go, listen to me... I suppose to have 3 sons
left... one is mine... one don't know that he is not mine ... and one
want to be mine."

We recall the Hubert Hughes’ Vote of No Confidence; his ADP/AUM Better Government for Anguilla debacle; his transshipment saga; his infidelity with Jerome Roberts and Edison Baird theatricals; his refusal to appoint an Opposition Leader in Parliament - his raping of the taxpayers purse on an outdated phone bill - mistrust, jealousy, envy... just to name a few of his convergence of confusion in Governments on Anguilla.

This Chief Minister's greed has demolished equity... blatant Nepotism beyond possibility of restrain. In the end, his unchecked greed threatens freedom, undermines the social fabric of our society, and was an undemocratic force. His government was unconstitutional for over 3.5 years... ignored by his evil British, as they were simply afraid to be labeled as evil colonialist intentionally destroying the economy and driving Anguillians back into poverty and slavery by taking their homes, lands and jobs and killing us with taxes.

However... the jury is out as to why the loyal opposition waited til this eleventh-hour to act. This boycotting of the House of Assembly on Anguilla is believe to be one of the most brilliant moves yet by a shadow government on Anguilla, saving us that level of continued embarrassment from this disgraceful debacle, this utter mess Government - shuttling in the kinda of change we so urgently needed.

I therefore admonish this utter mess to fast forward, and call general elections now! Your greed has ran its course therefore, the Legislatures Pension Act has escaped its onslaught, and in the quest for political stability and economic prosperity on Anguilla, you have given the Anguilla United Front (AUF) Opposition, an unfettered mandate in this general election...

It's important to know that though we the electorate cannot regulate stupidity, we surely can usher you into Parliament or facilitate an anticipated exit.

By: Realist Spikenice
Candidate against the Anguilla Utter Mess (AUM) Government of Anguilla