Choosing Sides... (Bring it on Jack)

After having been publicly humiliated by George Nicholas over the whole ATR and Caribbean Airlines affair, Jack Warner appears thirsty for something like a fight of redemption and seems to have chosen none other than the Leader of the Congress of the People and Minister of Finance Winston Dookeran and the COP as his foe.

Now, while I understand his pressing need to repair his image after the embarrassing and humiliating blow to his reputation due to the public 'ass whupping' he received from George, someone in his group of highly paid advisors and yes men must have the testicular fortitude and good sense to guide him away from this fool's endeavor.

If in his estimation he and Winston are in the same class he is not only misguided, he is quite probably delirious and someone needs to lead him to the truth; that as despised as he (Jack) is throughout the length and breadth of this country, Dooks is loved, admired and respected.

Mr. Warner is about to find out the hard way that bullying footballers and buying votes is one thing, building a career of respect, accomplishment, personal ethics and integrity is something else entirely and no amount of trickery and deceit on his part is going to alter that reality.

I warned him during the election that after Manning was indeed gone, the country would have to come to terms with having him (Jack Warner) in High Public Office, and as the feel of self disgust one feels after a questionable drunken one night stand is multiplied tenfold if the other party is still in your bed when the sun rises, so too the national loathing and public backlash that is sure to come when it finally dawns on people what they really got in exchange.

Mr. Warner also needs to be reminded that without the COP the UNC would be in free fall, but I gather from his moves that he already understands this. He is not so much threatening the COP with expulsion or any such notion, but rather is trying to 'whip' them into place, something that is becoming more impossible with each lie and broken promise.

For me it is my fervent hope that he continues on with his bull in a china shop approach so that the Congress of the People can finally dislodge itself from this unholy union and present itself to the people as the Party of Hope for a better Trinidad & Tobago.

The writing seems already on the wall and intuitive students of politics are aware that the Congress of the People have a unique opportunity (whenever the next General Elections are called) to be the first Political Party in the history of this country to receive a 'for' vote as opposed to benefitting from an 'against' vote.

While some may think my position harsh, this People's Partnership construct has hijacked the people's desire for change, is doing nothing positive for the nation and is busy using up all the nice sounding words and phrases to cover its total lack of substance.

How long would it have taken to pass the legislation for a fixed election date, seven months?

How about the right to recall non performing Members of parliament, how long for that ammendment considering the considerable size of the present Government's majority, seven months?

The right to referendum, seven months?

Or to implement the recommendations of the UFF report, the Bible from which all things were to flow, or at least so promised prior to May 24th 2010?

For all her pleasant sounding platitudes, the Prime Minister is leading the nation down a dead end path and for the life of me I do not understand why, having been presented by fate and destiny a wonderful opportunity to remake the country into a better version of itself, she would squander it to drink with julia and Fergie?

The promised leadership of a dynamic Prime minister leaving her own swearing in to wade through flood waters has evaporated like the nothing on which it was built, and in its stead we are treated to a diet of clever sounding nonsense.

To this writer it would be better for the country if this thing came to a head sooner than later, and I would like to invite Mr. Warner to carry on sowing the winds of discord by continuing to disrespect one of the nation's few remaining men of respect.

The whirlwind he will surely reap will consign him to the political dustbin, and some would say not soon enough.