…on saving their a55es
Did you notice that almost all of our former Ministers are suddenly more invisible than the “Invisible Man”, who HG Wells wrote about? These are creatures who would’ve walked over their mothers’ graves to get a mention in the news yet suddenly, you can’t even get them to say a simple good morning!! What’s going on??
Here it was, from December to the day before elections, they were so ubiquitous out in the field that you could be forgiven for thinking they were nomads! Excepting that they came bearing all sorts of gifts but insisting that they weren’t bribes for voting for them, but just gestures for them to touch the common folk. But what are they doing in the middle of a pandemic where more than half of our work force who live from day to day can’t work and as such have starvation staring them in the face? Don’t these ex-Ministers think they ought to be amongst the common folk right now distributing some of that largess??
Don’t they see those shadow Ministers from the PPP – starting from their Presidential Candidate Irfaan Ali on down – getting with the said common folks, distributing not only advice on how to deal with the COVID-19 attacks, but actually distributing masks and food? Even though they don’t have access to the Government coffers as the caretaker Govt ex-ministers do!! We know and the ex-Ministers know, they’ve lost this election…but aren’t they looking ahead at 2025?? Leaders are judged by how they react to crises and challenges, but it does look like these PNCites – with the AFCites that’s now completely merged as one – are prepared for a “Decade of Being in the Opposition Wilderness”!!
Well, some may say the ex-Ministers are scared of contracting the COVID virus and they’re self-isolating. That’s understandable…it’s OK to be scared and quivering when you’re only thinking of enjoying the mega salaries and bribes that were collected. But what about even defending their government’s position on the elections?? Up to now the only fella we heard from was Ramjattan, who caught two Russians who had the apparatus to hack into our pencil-and-paper elections!!
So, how come cat got the tongues of the rest of these worthies?? Couldn’t be the threat of personal sanctions being slapped on their behinds, could it?? Just can’t stand the thought of not being able to shop at Bloomingdale’s??
Whatever their reasons, it just goes to show that from Granger down all the former members of his Cabinet, these are a bunch of invertebrates!!
…in war
With hindsight, it’s clear this whole counting and recounting business is the occasion of the war, not the cause of the war. The “casus belli”, not the “causa belli” as Burnham – who knew more than a thing or two about creating occasions for war – was fond of saying. The PNC created this occasion when they Mingoed the Reg 4 count, in full view of the world.
So unlike past elections, the PNC cannot hide their raison d’être of politics – seizing power – any longer. Even though they insist it’s all about race, or so they’d like their supporters to believe!! The ironic thing is that they were able to break the racial-ethnic voting pattern when they hitched up with the AFC and got into power in 2015!! All they had to do was walk the one-love talk they spouted during their campaign!
But they didn’t – their erstwhile supporters saw this, and now they refuse to reap the whirlwind they sowed!! The PPP attracted at least 20% of “their” supporters!!
The best laid plans of mice and (PNC) men oft go awry!!
…in counting
First, it was the Reg 4 ballots to be recounted ‘cause the Opposition parties – and the entire international community – demanded this after being Mingoed. Then, the PNC demanded a recount of all 10 regions.
Now Volda’s handmaiden says the recount is illegal? What’s next? Burn the ballots? Hold it…that’s been suggested also!!
