Herbert's Folly... (Herbert's Hubris part 2)

First impressions are usually wrong, so I paid no real mind to my first impressions of the antics of Herbert Volney when he first appeared in the media on the fringes of the then General Elections as a possible UNC candidate.

I pegged his arrogance during media interviews  to neophyte and zealous political grandstanding, and his erratic behavior was accepted as, well eagerness.

When he took to the platform in St. Joseph and made a fool of the proceedings, a mockery of the event and an ass of himself props included I was still unmoved, and accepted it as normal UNC styled jester campaigning reminiscent of Dhanraj Singh and Basdeo Pandy.

It was his behavior in his Budget 2010 contribution as a Member of Parliament that former Justice cum Citizen Volney now Member of Parliament as well as Justice Minister Volney made us all sit up and take notice as he soared to incandescent heights and made himself a comic legend overnight.

In what is still perceived by many to be the mad act of a loony person, the Member connected the Chief Justice to the previous Attorney General by casting some discourteous, slanderous aspersions that left the entire legal fraternity shocked at his disrespectful and unwarranted attack against the third highest Office in the land, and the population at large confused as to what would come next.

With his Prime Minister and the legal profession moving to distance themselves from his attack, and with the Chief Justice himself outraged at the insult, MP Volney asked for and was given time to apologize for his 'misspeak.'

His apology was anything but, and it is evident that Mr. Volney takes the entire population for morons and thinks he owns the last dictionary of confounded phrases in the land. In a reading that can only be described as gobbledy gook and non-speak, Volney attempted to put the burden of interpreting his initial nonsense on the listener, reminiscent of Errol MacLeod's own apology to the Minister of Finance by his own unprovoked attack and his claim that what we heard was not what he meant.

In my article (http://plainlytalking.blogspot.com/2010/09/herberts-hubris.html) I called on the Prime Minister to accept nothing short of this man's resignation or fire him herself as concrete evidence that he was not speaking on her Administration's behalf. As she opted for the former to which the good gentleman has failed at miserably,  we again call on the Prime Minister to have Mr. Volney removed from the Cabinet and to wait out his time in the People's Parliament until he can be dismissed from that place as well.

I have said before there should be no more room for these loose canons and wild cards in our politics, and no quarter should be given to those who would make a mockery of our highest institutions by their grandstanding behavior. 

I suggest that the Prime Minister finds herself in agreement with this if she would prefer to not find herself in disagreement with the Chief Justice over her uncouth and ill mannered Minister of Justice (some statements are so pregnant with irony, to point it out is literally to belabor the point).

Seems my first impressions were right after all.