FRANCIS Bailey, the person designed by VPAC in the Forward Guyana Movement coalition to represent VPAC in parliament, has spoken out. Bailey will not be going to parliament in the final year of the present parliament in 2030 because according to Bailey, Amanza Walton-Desir (AWD) has not agreed to accept VPAC’s share of parliament.

So, it will be three years for AWD and two years for Nigel London, the leader of another party in the coalition.

Bailey is relentless in his criticism of AWD for according to him, not honouring the original decision of parliamentary sharing. He has done a live video in which the opening lines have a warning to viewers that his flow will not be about the PPP only. Basically, Bailey was saying he will talk about other politicians who are unprincipled and duplicitous. Bailey in a conversation with me said harsh words about AWD which I will not repeat.

I listened to Bailey, and I wondered which country he has been living in. It cannot be Guyana, because if it is Guyana then he is either naïve or ignorant or simply live in an introverted world from which he has now emerged.

As I wrote in a previous column on Bailey, I have known him for a number of years because he lived in the house next to my neighbour which made him my second neighbour. I have been buying Bailey’s honey for my wife for years now.

Bailey is no teenager and he has been around now for a long time. He must know more than a few things about political hypocrisy in his country. He must know and I know he knows that so many organisations and Guyanese personalities that criticise the PPP are simply people who have no moral authority to make such criticism.

If Bailey had spent just one hour with his friend, Frederick Kissoon, I would have given him a lecture, titled: “Notes on the morally pauperised political landscape in Guyana” and he would have been a more knowledgeable person about his country.

Here are brief historical notes on the crass political double standards of Guyana. If I reveal what I know of Mark Benschop, some people will ostracise him right away.

A trade union official received a secret car from a gold company without his union knowing and his union had bargaining rights at the company. This man is one of the most insane critics of the PPP government.

I was a columnist for 30 years for the Kaieteur News owned by Glenn Lall. There is not one human in the past PPP leadership and the present PPP leadership that Mr Lall is better than. Mr Lall has no right to criticise the Government of Guyana. His record is by far worse and that is putting it mildly. Lall’s golden friend who is a crazy anti-PPP fellow is now in golden trouble.

I am speaking  of the now deceased Ramon Gaskin. Mr Gaskin had used up unlimited energy for 25 years criticising various PPP governments from the perspective of socialist economics, but the big company that Mr Gaskin was a financial adviser for was one of the cruelest exploiters of labour in this country.

I know an elder gentleman who is a financial analyst and he cannot walk in the footsteps of President Ali. The two men in terms of moral standing cannot be compared. There are people in the private media who have no shame. They have been calling for transparency and good governance, but they have no moral character to do so. These are people who have no professional ethics, but they pound the Guyana Government every day, telling Guyana that there are no ethics in the exercise of power as if they know what ethics are.

A man secretly arranged for hundreds of millions of outstanding taxes to be forgiven and it was forgiven, but he is currently one of those who constantly criticise the government, accusing it of every conceivable wrongdoing you can think of.

A middle-class woman who is an extremist anti-PPP hater, took 40 million dollars from a certain embassy in Guyana to do a project in Amerindian communities. She did not produce even one page of research. What moral authority does she have to tell the Guyana Government what is right and what is wrong?

Money came into this country for the economic elevation of African Guyanese. Those who wasted this money are known for their poisonous accusations against the government.

I hope Bailey internalises these brief notes.

I close with some advice to those who want to go into politics: do not criticise the goat-thief if you are a cow thief.

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