Explaining… PNC’s (amazing) shrinking

Your Eyewitness has already mentioned PNC leader Aubrey Norton’s speech to his party’s Ghana Day commemoration last week. Not being invited, your Eyewitness had to rely on news accounts and video feeds to get an idea of what pearls of wisdom fell from Norton’s lips on this nostalgic occasion. Your Eyewitness mentioned a jeremiad – an impassioned and desperate lamentation, Dear Reader!  – on his party ignoring “youths” – who then slouched over to Sanction Man’s WIN party that was distributing green-coloured money and motorbikes!!
Well, it seems there was more in his speech – still nothing to do with Ghana – but all having to do with his party’s whupping at the polls to end up as an “also-ran”!! This is according to the Stabber News that decided to commit hara-kiri and exit the scene. Why? Says – like with so many other hard-copy papers – it can’t feed itself!! Anyhow, they quoted Norton as asserting, “As a party, I felt that one of the biggest problems we had in the last elections was the level that the internal division went to.”
Well…if that isn’t the understatement of the decade!! After Norton took over the PNC in 2022 the internal “divisions” were more like an atomic explosion where all the particles – protons, electrons and neutrons – are hurled outwards at supersonic speeds!! And since things just don’t explode on their own but need some impacting force, the question Norton should’ve answered was what or who applied the force to fission the PNC!!
From your gimlet-eyed Eyewitness’ close observations during that period, it seems it was nobody else but ole Norton himself!! He’d challenged Granger and the coterie brought in when they were recruited by Corbin in 2011 – over Norton’s strident opposition and protests!! Three of the new blood challenged him for the leadership – as was their right according to the PNC’s constitution – but Norton took it badly!! He used his power to stack the deck against them, and they not only pulled out of the leadership race but also from the party!! One of them formed her own party – which snagged a seat in the elections!!
Another disruptive Norton action was his alleged sexual harassment of Linden strongwoman Vanessa Kissoon – who resigned after a promised probe into her charge of stillbirth!! This was followed by the resignation of an even bigger PNC heavyweight – a member for 54 years and a past Chairperson of the PNC, Amna Ally – who criticised Norton’s behaviour. A slew of other resignations followed that left the PNC with the sycophants who supported Norton.
A prime example was the rabidly racist Black Pudding Man from the detritus of the WPA – who was the final nail in the PNC coffin!!
And Norton decided to blank Parliament!!

…Iran war
At a news conference last week, the secretary of the newly designated Dept of War, Pete Hegseth, explained that in the war against Iran, there ain’t gonna be “no stupid rules of engagement”!! Imagine that!! In another, he said the US military would shower “death and destruction from the sky all day long”.
No longer would there be talks about moral purpose or democratic ideals. As the NY Times explained, “His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars.”
He won’t let President Trump make that mistake. Today’s campaign isn’t about enduring freedom. It’s called Operation Epic Fury. “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality… Violent effect, not politically correct.” The question, of course, is whether Iran will also not play according to any rules, as it has shown.
The joker in the pack is whether Israel’s gonna use its nuclear bombs!!

…end of nobility
The House of Lords just passed the Hereditary Peers Bill, ending Britain’s hoary system of hereditary peers who could still sit and vote in the House of Lords.
Is abolishing the monarchy next??