Fonseca Fires Back at Opposition Leader’s Budget Response

Freetown Area Representative and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francis Fonseca, didn’t hold back during today’s budget debate. He dismissed Opposition Leader Tracy Taegar-Panton’s response as nothing more than “empty, hollow rhetoric.” Fonseca criticized her remarks as weak and uninspired, even suggesting her notes were filled with Google searches and ChatGPT-generated content. He also took a jab at the opposition’s presence in the House, pointing out that Hugo Patt and Miguel Guerra were both absent from the debate, leaving their side short on representation. Fonseca’s comments added another layer of tension to what’s already a fiery exchange over the proposed national budget been.

 

Francis Fonseca, Area Representative, Freetown

“She said we are not here to just criticize and oppose, we are here to be balanced and so, but the absolute betrayal of that desire was almost immediate when she started to talk. What followed was empty hollow rhetoric, this dark meaningless rhetoric which offered no vision for the country not one plan for the country. She said nothing about what the UDP could do, no plan for the country, no vision, ideas, solutions. Typical UDP, so in my view it was a very weak, lazy response. I say that, before anybody say the lady weak, lazy, I said that about the former leader too, his response was always lazy. No thought or effort had gone into the preparation  of their presentation. Just lot of googling, lot of google thing extracted and paced, a lot of  cut and pace or googling. Chat GPT nuh. Very disappointing. Even two members of the other team on her side  already have a slim team over there, a maga team and two of them couldn’t bother to show up. Two of them could not get them selves out of bed to witness the leader of the opposition.”