Is there nobody in UK Parliament that Turks and Caicos Islanders can Trust? Parliament Ignores Demands for Local Elections and Return to Democracy

By: Denny G.

It’s commonsense that the members of UK parliament should be smart cookies who are up on their current events. They can’t be oblivious to what is going on in their own territory with the withholding of our local elections and democracy. Turks Islanders are not taking UK abuse laying down anymore. Nobody in parliament is listening to us and we need to wake them up.

God knows that the [installed] British interim government is not listening to us. That's when we turned our attention to parliament and the foreign affairs committee to get someone to listen to us. But what we hear back is stuff like what Lord Nigel Jones told the TCWeekly. He said that we need to work with the British interim government before we can have elections and democracy. Excuse me, but that’s assbackwards. Lord Nigel Jones is saying that we have to work with the corrupt British interim government to stabilize our economy and correct government malfeasance. Excuse me, the British interim government is who destroyed our economy and if they don’t have government malfeasance fixed by now after two years of direct rule then they have proven incompetence or are purposely stonewalling us. Some of us believe that the British interim government is causing the malfeasance on purpose.

You know, I am sorely disappointed in the UK government. We were patient and helpful for a long time. We were trusting that they wanted to help. But the UK government is taking advantage of us and playing games with us. Lord Nigel Jones knows what he is talking about and he knows that Turks Islanders have been sucker punched. He has traded sides from his former position of going to bat for us. That really hurts.

It also really hurts that the UK is not looking out for our best interests. They are playing every trick up their proverbial sleeve to find a way for this draft constitution to bypass our approval. It’s out of order for us to trust the UK who took our democracy from us to start with. Now there is proof out there of some kind of health care deal and developer contracts that is driving the UK to be installed in Turks and Caicos. Our faith in the UK is gone. How can we let the UK govern us on any level even if it’s only as a territory supervisory level? We need independence just to keep the UK armed robbers from our doors.

What also really hurts is that it took the president of the United States to speak of our rights. When Barack Obama made that speech that the territories have a right to self determination and democracy, the camera turned to William Hague who looked angry at the president’s statement. They have no compassion for what they have done to us, only contempt.

We got the short stick being imprisoned by UK politics. They have turned against us and blame us for why we are suffering losses of rights and freedoms. Only abusers do that. It reminds me of a battered wife who is beaten by her husband and she’s blamed because “she had it coming”.