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Here's what he had to say about his exit, and the financial burdens he still bears from his time as leader of the party:

Hon. John Briceno
"I had already spent 3 million dollars out of pocket. Something that Said nor Ralph nor George Price, nobody has done for this party. I spent 3 million dollars that I recorded. I only di tell you what these people do to you. On top of that I made a loan of 1 million dollars for the Town Council elections for 2009. Right now I have to donate $14,800 to the PUP every month for a loan they made. I am paying that, not Francis, Francis no give a f***, and I can tell you everything that I spent, but at the end of the day I can only say look here I can continue to lead the party but I cannot continue to spend more money because, I will bankrupt my company and my family. And like you well know your family comes first. So as not to mess up the party anymore I made the sacrifice to say you know what if you want it take it..." "Three weeks after I step down there was no National Convention…the same PUP that is the cancer of the PUP you should be talking about. That's the cancer that we have.

Julian
I'm not saying you are the cancer, boss."

Hon. John Briceno
"No, no,no,no no,no,no. that's the cancer that we have. That cancer that came and stole millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars from the people. I'm not talking about a little bit of money...millions, tens of millions of dollars they stole, that had this been another country they would have been in jail right now...so I step down and I was sincere and they said that Francis was going to take it."

"If it had been another leader we would have won because we've all…I wasn't going to get into all of this but I think it is important so you can understand what has happened in the party Julian. From the time he came in what di Francis do? He kicked out Mark and Cordel. Maybe long term it's a good thing but short term it was a stupid mistake. I could have done that to Mark and Cordel but I know how it would hurt the party because they had a section of people, and like you said Julian, you control...a sponsor has his people who think that are oh Mark...now they are seeing Mark for who he is nuh. And what did these boys do? They realized that if they got into government, they said Francis will put them in back bench so why would they fight? Francis is king and only wants us in the back bench. They stepped down so we lost two seats, but besides that we still could have won but they are not thinking strategically...looking where they should."

As you heard, he had a lot to say about the outcome of the 2012 elections in which it is widely speculated that if the party did not kick out former standard bearers Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde, the PUP might be in government right now. Given last week Wednesday's performance of the recently returned Standard bearer for Lake Independence, Cordel Hyde, it makes for an interesting symmetry for Briceno's comments to emerge at this time.