Well, as everyone predicted – but not for the same reason!! – this was a very historic election!! While THE PPP WON – as your Eyewitness had predicted (he modestly reminds his Dear Readers!) – the history-making event is the displacement of the PNC by the three-month-old WIN led by Sanction Man!! Initially, the PNC egged on WIN, thinking the old ethnic politics would play out and the “Indian” Sanction Man would nibble off PPP votes around the margins! But from what we now see, his crowds didn’t lie, and his appeal to Scrapeheads gobbled out HUGE chunks from the old PNC base!!
As old people say, “All smart fly does end up on cow’s backside!!” The sixty-six-year-old PNC’s gonna have to get some big-time necromancer to raise it from the dead!! Your Eyewitness ain’t gonna be crying no river of tears for the PNC – which bequeathed a legacy of gutting our democracy by rigging elections! So who’s gonna be that necromancer? We know it ain’t gonna be Aubrey Norton – who followed the advice of the Black Pudding Man from what Burnham called the “Worst Possible Alternative”!! He stuck to the hymnbook of that old-time (racial) religion – from which young people of all stripes have turned away with a vengeance!!
If he’s smart, Norton can do one of two things – both of which demand him departing from the (PNC) scene with great haste. He can resign forthwith as leader of the PNC and allow an open process for the election of a new leader. Or he can do a Corbin and bring in a leader who’s got what it takes to rally a following behind a new PNC banner. But your Eyewitness thinks he’s gonna do neither as he stands on the deck to go down with the fatally crippled PNC that struck the WIN iceberg!!
But one question would be – WHO can be a leader that a mature Norton can bring aboard to rescue the PNC? The old middle-class Coloured elite have completely disqualified themselves by their vehicles – AFC, FGM, etc., etc. – being destroyed even more comprehensively than the PNC by WIN!! It’s clearer than daylight that the old politics where the people will vote for persons just because they are lawyers and doctors are OVER!! In a land where money is now flowing like a river, and Sanction Man’s a BILLIONAIRE without a degree behind or before his name, he seems to have convinced Scrapeheads that they too can make it with a leader who will be UNABLE to speak in Parliament – because MPs aren’t allowed to read their speeches!!
Has Sanction Man ever uttered more than two sentences without a script or a prompt??
…Mad Maduro’s gambit
As Mad Maduro continues to bluster in the face of the US tightening the noose around his neck – which has a US$50M “Dead or Alive” bounty hanging on it – he’s taken to venting his bile against us and Trinidad – by name!! – for supporting the US flotilla off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast!! And let’s not forget that there are eight US bases in Columbia on their western border that can be called upon!! While we haven’t been as expansive as Kamla in T&T to offer our land space on their East, your Eyewitness thinks Pressie should ask the Yanks to support a massive increase in our deployment of troops in that sector.
With Sanction Man the Opposition Leader-to-be, he should be put to the test – sooner rather than later – on whether he supports us taking a more aggressive approach to Mad Maduro’s depredations!! Let’s not forget that the gold-smuggling generals of the Cartel of the Sun are right across the Cuyuni River!!
As the Chinese say, we live in interesting times!!
…responsibilities kick in
It’s said that “when a clown enters a palace, he doesn’t become a king. Rather, the palace becomes a circus!!” So the question arises: what does Parliament become when Sanction Man enters as Opposition Leader??
