See me in the above photo?* I am pretending to be haughty, contemptuous, aloof, pompous and overbearing, in other words I am pretending to be a politician! Janette Layne Clarke the writer and producer of the recently concluded comedy production Pampalam, selected me to play this part of a politician.

At first I was lost at how to play it, then I thought of most of the politicians I have had the pleasure of transacting business with, and the supercilious pretentious attitude which they exuded. The servant of the people who become the master of the people until they have to beg you to become your servant again.

In Pampalam I played a Government Minister whose constituents (Eleanor Rice) are complaining about the state of the roads and I don’t give a rat’s ass! They are wasting my time complaining about dust giving them asthma when I have to go to a diplomatic lunch. Politicians are like that not just here in Barbados but internationally, they do anything to get your vote and then when they are elected, you become insignificant. They come to your house skin their teeth in your face and kiss your baby, and when election day gone they gone too!

The Government’s efforts to set up the Festival Events Bureau are an example of how politicians operate, they claim to have your cultural interests as a priority to get your vote, and then turn around and start talking about how they will exploit you for their own “entrepreneurial” gain.

Here’s another typical example of how politicians operate. Last election day a politician sent a car to my home to see if I needed transportation to go and vote, you think that if I was to wake up a morning now and my car would not start, that I could phone the same politician and ask them for a lift? I don’t think so!

Let me finish with some lyrics to a little ditty that Eric Lewis wrote for the Best of Barbados Gone Madd comedy show some years ago, sung to the tune of Sesame Street’s “The People in your Neighborhood”.

A politician is somebody who

Does come and get your vote from you

And when you put the x next to his name

You don’t ever see the bitch again!!

Well in defense of politicians Eric is not totally right in this one. You do get to see them on TV meeting important people and thing, its just the important people are not you….

Have a good day, You plebian rab!

* Do you see the supercilious look on my face? that is acting yuh idiot!
p.s; Asiba can complain about the tie as usual

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