Monday, September 28 2009

CHAGUANAS WEST MP Jack Warner says Prime Minister Patrick Manning must have a place in history as being a Prime Minister of contradictions.

He said as Manning addressed an almost empty Hall at the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Saturday, the prime minister told the international community that although countries of the world were now slowly emerging from a global recession, that there is no room for complacency.

“He is quoted as saying, We should not countenance the resurfacing of discredited patterns on financial streets and capitals. We must be very wary of the level of adventurousness in leading financial institutions, which contributed very significantly to driving the world to the edge of an economic precipice, from which we are just starting to pull back.” ‘

But Warner yesterday said this admission from the Prime Minister was a masterpiece of contradictions as mere weeks ago his Government in its Budget presentation, turned its back on the “level of adventurousness” and continued in a flippant and frivolous dispensation of the public’s purse.

“Two weeks ago, his Government presented a fiscal package that bore no resemblance to a ‘watchful’ financial approach that he advocated before the UN General Assembly.

“His advice therefore, to the UN and on the need to be wary still of the financial times, mere weeks after his lavish budget at home, must be listed as the consummate economic paradox. Manning’s inconsistency even borders on political schizophrenia; saying one thing at home and another thing abroad,” Warner charged.