Requiem… in the PNC bunker

Yes…now that the dust has settled after the dust-up of the last elections, we can see the PNC’s camp has now been converted into a bunker! The PNC’s bedraggled troops “led” by Aubrey Norton are desperately scrambling for survival. It sorta reminds your Eyewitness of Hitler and the remnants of his (once glorious) Third Reich as the Russians advanced from the East and the Allies from the West in a pincer movement!! With defeat staring them in the face it was every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost!! Some underlings even flew all the way to Britain to try to cut deals – and Hitler took the coward’s way out when he took his own life!!
And so it’s turning out in Guyana as the PPPC continues its political blitzkrieg along all fronts – economic, political, social, cultural etc. – against the moribund PNC, with Sanction Man’s WIN using his ill-gotten gains playing the victim to hold on to the PNC’s scrapeheads he’d scraped off!! Unlike Hitler – who tried to mass his troops till the (bitter) end – PNC leader Norton seems to have immediately retreated to his bunker at Bam Bam Alley!! Can you imagine what that’s done to the morale of his troops? And as the PPPC and WIN move in to fill the leadership vacuum, the rump PNC – reduced to a pitiful 12 – seats can see the real possibility of disappearing forever!!
Not surprisingly, there’s much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth – not to mention loud lamentations! – from some carpetbaggers Norton brought aboard about the fate of the PNC. In politics, if your followers are trooping across to your opponents’ banner, you better take a hard look in the mirror. There is, of course, the object lesson of other parties that once had tens thousands of followers who’ve now collapsed into black holes from which nothing emerges – even radiation!!
So what can we figure Norton’s newbie leaders – Parliamentary Leader Fried Chicken Man and the Black Pudding Man – gonna be doing in the New Year?? You’d suppose they’ll have a go at putting together their Humpty-Dumpty party back again after its great fall, no? But sadly, if probably inevitably, the two of them seem to be working at cross purposes. Fried Chicken Man’s consumed with issuing eye-glazing academic dissertations of the status of the Natural Resource Fund – after his Cash Grant protest foray into populist mobilisation fizzled out like a damp squib!!
One-trick pony Black Pudding Man has stuck with (virtually) haranguing a handful of outside Guyanese about the perfidies being inflicted on Afro-Guyanese by the “slave catching” PPPC government that’s providing them with jobs, houses, educational opportunities etc.!!
And ensuring PNC’s extinction!!

…for a blonde bombshell
The news that Brigitte Bardot has passed brought back a flood of nostalgia to your Eyewitness, who you would know, Dear Readers, is an avid film buff. So in case you’ve just muttered aloud, “Who’s Brigitte Bardot?”, know that you missed an iconic movie star from the mid fifties and sixties who redefined what it was to be female and free. Not by preaching no women’s lib rhetoric but by being who she was – a woman who insisted that her sexual side didn’t have to be smothered by the hypocrisy of the age!!
Marilyn Monroe was a decade ahead of her but the French Bombshell’s breakout appearance came in 1956 when at the age of 18 she starred in “And God Created Woman” – a provocative film that launched her to international stardom. For many, she was a symbol of a new age of sexual liberation with her tousled hair and natural beauty!!
An emblem of the modern woman, she refused to conform to stereotypes!! Viva Brigitte Bardot!!

…for Caricom?
The firestorm raised by T&T’s PM Kamla with her unapologetic support for the US’ actions against Mad Maduro, continues unabated. But your Eyewitness notices that the major woke usual suspect – Barbados Mia Mottley has suddenly gone quiet??