Opposition dying ‘a slow death’ with its one-seat majority

OLD Kai hears it almost daily from the Opposition hacks. In their efforts to drum up invisible support for what has become a dying campaign by both the AFC and APNU during this life of parliament, they never hesitate to refer to the PPP/C being bought slightly under the 50% mark in the last general and regional elections.

When one listens to either Granger or Ramjattan and their monologues, someone unfamiliar with the elections results would automatically believe one of them would definitely become the next President of Guyana.
Old Kai could however, understand their resort to this combined one-seat majority they share in the National Assembly as two years on since the last elections, it is the only thing they have to show the Guyanese people. Nothing else! They have failed and failed miserably. They have been exposed and they try very hard to hide behind that one seat majority. But all Guyanese have now seen them for what they are and have witnessed their level of incompetence.
Truth be told, even supporters of the ruling party are embarrassed for the Opposition politicians as, quite frankly, they expected a bit more with all the grandstanding, the expertise and articulated solution for every problem Guyana faced in the lead up to the last election.

Why would the Opposition try to jeopardize Guyana’s future and that of our children? Alas, that is Machiavellian politics for you, the art of deception!

Reality has come crashing down and the gulf between officials of the ruling party and the Opposition in terms of competence in administering the affairs of Government is patently evident.
On the other hand, embarrassment is an understatement for the average Opposition supporter. They are now asking themselves some serious questions as never before had they had cause to wonder about the sincerity of their leaders towards their very own support bases. They were led to believe that the PPP/C Government was deliberately sidelining Opposition supporters and the Opposition used every opportunity to inject a racial/ethnic connotation in this regard.

That was in the lead up to the November 26, 2011 elections but here was the Opposition pushing for all GPL consumers to pay a 22% increase, while the PPP/C party was fighting to let government absorb that cost rather than passing it down to consumers. All Guyanese but particularly Opposition supporters were perplexed; ‘why would the APNU and AFC do this to us?’ they thought.

Amerindians were left completely out in the cold, after the LCDS was cut where significant funding was directed to hinterland communities; monies to rehabilitate interior airstrips were cut from the budget, funding to train young Amerindian entrepreneurs and which provided solar panel sets in Amerindian homes were affected and, most recently, the Opposition attempted to deny Amerindian children the provision of school buses to save them from the long distances they usually have to trek to attend school.
The people in Region 7 who voted in a narrow margin for the AFC and then APNU to come out on top and be in charge of the Regional Administration wondered aloud, ‘are these the same people who spoke and interacted with us during the last elections?’
Why would they try to jeopardize our future and that of our children? Alas, that is Machiavellian politics for you, the art of deception.

(To be continued)