ON Monday, I gave a little history of the PNC in office and their tampering with the constitution to suit their own intents and purposes. I was simply updating Henry Jeffrey and persons of like mentality on a piece of history we would rather like to forget. This is not an easy thing to do because you are dealing with a group who are very intellectually dishonest; they would even try to rewrite history if the opportunity affords them. If we are not keen enough these people would erase all factual evidence of their horrible past. So writing at varying intervals on matters of the constitution to make them turn out to be the good guys is quite laughable. So let me go back to the constitution debate. The PNC after taking care of the British, then turned their attention inward as to the best way to deal with the opposition. And there was no better way to deal with them than to fiddle with the constitution. This they set out to do with great enthusiasm.
Burnham and his boys then crafted a piece of document that totally obliterated the opposition. The opposition’s contribution in Parliament was reduced to nothingness as everything was quantified and qualified by the name PNC. Jagan and the PPP were  mere mocking stocks. You see, the PNC are good at the art of making fools out of people – well I should say trying to make fools out of people – because no one is fooled by them but themselves. Their contempt for others is reason to try these stunts.
When you have someone with the DNA trait of a bully in a position of power, then the logical thing to do is to render your opponents helpless. It is that mentality that led Burnham to become the dictator that he was. So the constitution had to reflect this.

However, thanks to the PPP/C who changed all of this and gave the opposition hope; they brought back relevance to the word opposition. The opposition can, as it were, breathe a new breath of fresh air hitherto denied them. They are now abusing that privilege with the one-seat majority.
But there is a twist to this story.  Let’s say for academic purposes the opposition, that is, the PNC wins the next election and the PPP/C gets a one-seat majority in a combined opposition. Do you think the PNC would be speaking the way they are at the present time? Of course not! They would forthwith go back to the drawing board to change the constitution to get rid of the irritants. Be careful what you ask for.