The Heavy Roller Will Win Castries North

On Thursday Stephenson King is expected to announce that he will contest Castries north as an independent candidate. His split from the Allen Chastenet led UWP is likely to be the death knell of the party at the 2021 polls. The odds of a UWP victory at the general elections are now razor thin.

Barbados based Caribbean pollster Peter Wickham speaking to the press this week said that King’s decision could end up hurting him or helping him. Wickham was wrong.

Let us remember that Stephenson King is a political Craftsman of extensive experience. His timing is impeccable.

The eleventh hour has arrived and without King the UWP will have no viable candidate in Castries north. The constituency is not a UWP stronghold as much as it is a King seat.

With the SLP not fielding a candidate in Castries north and the UWP in a tied up mess over there, One CARIBBEAN TODAY is calling the seat for Stephenson King.

Wickham was wrong because there’s no way the UWP can win Castries north in 2021 without King and
at this point, there’s no way King can lose.

By extension, it may also be safe to say that there’s no way the UWP can win the general elections in 2021 without Stephenson King. We insist that King brought the UWP to victory in 2016. Now it seems that in 2021 he will bring it to its knees. The party needs king even more now than it did then.

Our final big prediction is that Philip J Pierre will make history in Saint Lucia when he appoints Stephenson King to be an independent member of his cabinet. A new style of progressive political leadership that delivers loyalty to country over party will emerge in Saint Lucia at the swearing in.

History will tell the tale of Stephenson King who put the country first, the constituency second and the party third.