Time to Move COP...

I have been told that it makes no sense trying to put a dress on a pig; all it does is get everyone dirty AND it upsets the pig.

In a world of half baked amorphorisms and tired analogies, you would think that the people struggling to hold the People's Partnership together would have figured out by now that in this instant, the whole may not be greater than the sum of its parts and (from the COP's viewpoint) it might in fact be better to just let the whole thing go.

Every day the gap between the Congress of the People and the United National Congress widens, and the only way to close that gap now is for either side to publicly abandon the policies on which their Party is built and swear allegiance to the other.

Nothing else is going to fool the people anymore, and someone needs to tell them how silly they are looking trying to keep up the charade.

Watching Prakash step into the gap for out of favor and unapologetic Anand last Friday I found myself wondering if he (Prakash) forgot how hard he worked to build his integrity and his political capital?

Is he not seeing how fast Winston Dookeran is hemorrhaging his own political stocks working to prop up an already dead Administration?

The Congress of the People's Members of Parliament (with the exception of Anil Roberts) have been given rather austere responsibilities and are being made to look tight fisted while Warner and friends are sharing State largesse like big daddies and racking up popularity points for it.

Why are they working so hard against themselves and the Party?

As I am on the point, Anil, I had cause to tell Therese Baptiste-Cornelis that it is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt; she apparently agreed and perhaps you should as well.

Now, I am not a strategist nor even an advisor to or for the COP, but I am a supporter, and like every other supporter would hate to see such a good opportunity die, especially after all the hard work that was put into building it in the first place.

Where the rubber meets the road (and i have said this time and again), if the COP were to leave the Partnership and resume the process of building itself as an alternative to Governance (especially while it had a presence in the House and controlled corporations), the moral high ground would be theirs for the claiming.

We have before us a wonderful opportunity to get the politics right (where have I heard that before?) but it requires people of immense character to recognize it and to seize the moment.

The electorate for the most part are fed up of what passes for Party Politics now and are craving change; compile that with the fact that the generation of Williams is now in decline, and this or that Party forever is a thing of the past. The people would literally work for free to build an alternative to the madness and chaos that is passing for Government right now.

Without the COP the Partnership becomes irrelevant and the UNC will be exposed for what it really is -  Austin Jack Warner and friends.

Trust me when I tell you that no amount of fancy dancing and spin doctoring will make that look like anything other than what it is, and that is a terrible waste of a perfectly good dress if you asked me.