Stormborn posted:Gilbakka posted:There has to be more to this story. He had to have co ordinated it with the PPP. They would not launch a no confidence vote campaign without a sense that there is a weak link in the APNU ranks. Everyone was genuinely surprised at his action. Lots of soup spigots got turned off!
Anyway, I understand his stated reasons and while I would have sought to fight for change where I was, he possibly knows better about who would have listened. The PPP and the APNU will now harden their ranks. Poor Ramson might not even make it on the PPP list because he would be seen to have a grievance ( as he should). Every Indian and black person on the APNU and PPP lists respectively will undergo serious double vetting. Suspicion to the level of paranoia will be the outlook going forward.
If only this was done by a black person, the suspicion it was a racial bushwhacking would not be so heavy in the aether. We are such an ethnically divided country that everything is framed in terms of ethnicity. It is why we need constitution reform.
In fact I have heard it being expressed that if the person who voted yes was black then the optics would have been better. Right now it fits right into the tribal politics of Guyana and as usual responses are based on tribal perspectives. AND the PPP is as usual blind to this locked into their own tribal narratives, blithefully unware that their failure to address these tribal perspectives WILL have repercussion for them when they win.
The facts remain that the AFC is as much to blame as APNU with all of this.
1. The AFC played a role with the 50% salary increase. Granger didn't get a 50% salary increase.
2. The AFC ministers were noted for mediocrity, and some for corruption as well. They had a significant % of cabinet. Did they use this. What about Ramjattan's performance as Minister of Home Affairs?
3. If Charrandass has a problem with how the AFC was behaving then he should have addressed this earlier. Now he looks like the stooge in a Jagdeo Machiavellian plot. David Hinds was open from this from the beginning and in fact was booted off the Chronicle by Moses Nagamootoo. He proceeded to continue to offer his views from KN. David Hinds has a right to talk.
"Yes Man" Charrandass who played along with the AFC until Jagdeo played with his ego (and maybe offered more) should have nothing to say.
Jagdeo himself hasn't learned a lesson. Walking around like an emperor with cheering Indian crowds. How does this deconstruct Guyana's tribal narrative of a zero sum ethnic race?