For­mer UNC Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Anil Roberts has reap­peared on the po­lit­i­cal front say­ing that he wants to ‘douglarise’ the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Roberts told Guardian Me­dia that since 2015 he’s been ‘spread­ing the gospel’ of the par­ty to var­i­ous con­stituen­cies along the East/West cor­ri­dor which con­tains some of this coun­try’s mar­gin­al seats.

“Every­thing that Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar did on pol­i­cy is more ben­e­fi­cial to the Afro Trinida­di­an com­mu­ni­ty than Kei­th Christo­pher Row­ley…from Hague Street in Care­nage straight down in­to Moru­ga and San­gre Grande, the Afro Trinida­di­an com­mu­ni­ty is flock­ing to the UNC and douglar­is­ing the par­ty,” Roberts said.

But po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj says what the UNC is do­ing in 2019 is from an old play­book used in the Bas­deo Pan­day era where they use non-In­do Trinida­di­an rep­re­sen­ta­tives to win over the swing vot­ers.

“The UNC as a po­lit­i­cal par­ty is ir­re­spon­si­ble with re­spect to its hard­core tra­di­tion­al sup­port­ers by lead­ing them to be­lieve UNC’s pol­i­tics, as it is, will put them in Gov­ern­ment, if the UNC wish­es to be a cred­i­ble al­ter­na­tive to the PNM to form a Gov­ern­ment they will have to go back to the draw­ing board and re­view what their po­lit­i­cal strat­e­gy is,” Ram­samooj said.

Ram­samooj added that the con­tin­ued use of Anil Roberts shows that the UNC leader’s in­abil­i­ty to at­tract new peo­ple of sub­stance, cred­i­bil­i­ty and char­ac­ter.

De­spite be­ing the Sports Min­is­ter when the au­dit in­to Life­s­port found sev­er­al dis­crep­an­cies, Roberts said he was not con­vict­ed of any­thing.