1) A PNC Minority Presidency
2) AFC in the balance of power
3) The PPP as the Official Opposition which will then usher in an internal civil war for the future direction of the party. The party may reform or it may not.
4) The rise of Mayor Mark Benschop with significant U.S. backing as an unusual independent force in the Guyanese State. He will be no ordinary mayor.
The AFC will form a working parliamentary majority with the PNC and perhaps gain a few ministries.
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I further predict an Opposition PPP reformed under Anil Nandlall and others can rise from the ashes of electoral defeat as the mythical phoenix.
1) A PNC Minority Presidency
2) AFC in the balance of power
3) The PPP as the Official Opposition which will then usher in an internal civil war for the future direction of the party. The party may reform or it may not.
4) The rise of Mayor Mark Benschop with significant U.S. backing as an unusual independent force in the Guyanese State. He will be no ordinary mayor.
The AFC will form a working parliamentary majority with the PNC and perhaps gain a few ministries.
Plausible. Possible. Time for change.
A vote for the AFC or PNC is better than a vote for the corrupt PPP.
1) A PNC Minority Presidency
2) AFC in the balance of power
3) The PPP as the Official Opposition which will then usher in an internal civil war for the future direction of the party. The party may reform or it may not.
4) The rise of Mayor Mark Benschop with significant U.S. backing as an unusual independent force in the Guyanese State. He will be no ordinary mayor.
The AFC will form a working parliamentary majority with the PNC and perhaps gain a few ministries.
Plausible. Possible. Time for change.
A vote for the AFC or PNC is better than a vote for the corrupt PPP.
This is also the best thing that could happen to the PPP. The Party needs some time in the wilderness to cleanse itself of evil.
1) A PNC Minority Presidency
2) AFC in the balance of power
3) The PPP as the Official Opposition which will then usher in an internal civil war for the future direction of the party. The party may reform or it may not.
4) The rise of Mayor Mark Benschop with significant U.S. backing as an unusual independent force in the Guyanese State. He will be no ordinary mayor.
The AFC will form a working parliamentary majority with the PNC and perhaps gain a few ministries.
Plausible. Possible. Time for change.
A vote for the AFC or PNC is better than a vote for the corrupt PPP.
This is also the best thing that could happen to the PPP. The Party needs some time in the wilderness to cleanse itself of evil.
My thoughts too. Five years in opposition will chasten the PPP. As soon as it loses power all the opportunists and soup drinkers will jump overboard. There will be internal retribution against the corrupt party functionaries. The Jaganites will regain control and the Jagdeoites will scram. Rules for electing future party presidential candidates will change. Democratic centralism will give way to decentralized or members' democracy.
Then, and only then, will the PPP begin to regain the trust of the electorate.
Opinions are like ass holes, everyone has one. Katahars have been predicting this for decades.
And with that shitty batty face then you have two ass holes. That's a fact.
Such a remarkable intellectual addition to the conversation
I just saw this, after I made similar comments - like minds!!!
Very plausible prognosis BTW. Could very well happen. Benschop's mayorship may be a stretch given the demographics in GT and the baggage he carries in some minds.
Look, when a certified JOKER make a prediction we ALL should take it very seriously.
HEHEHEHEHAHAHAHAHA Seriously!!!
I have been saying the same thing for awhile and the reasons are clear.
The PPP can lose the next election. 8 points separate them from defeat. That eight points can be gotten simply by black people turning out in high numbers and the AFC poaching a couple of points. It is clear the PNC will not concede any powers. Why should they be expected to do so? Then, lots of these buggers are going to jail. The only thing between them and wholesale incarceration would be the AFC. I would hope the PNC award the AFC leaders some position in the government and so maintain their allegiances.
October 1, 2013 6:21 PM
The truth? I doubt you know what that is. The AFC is not a mere consortium of people. It is an opportunity gap to stop the PPP thieving. That will always exist since all of t he people are not sheep. A great many can see who are the crooks and understand the nature of interwoven corruption as control strategy in the society.
The PPP are never going to win a majority again. They will find it difficult to maintain the 8 points necessary to maintain a strangle hold on the society and practice their thievery unchecked. Between now and election the sugar industry will not turn around, crime will not be abated and kith and kin nepotism as policy will not be eased. The PPP cannot help themselves. They now have to exist with the curse of being crooks. They will lose.
I have been saying the same thing for awhile and the reasons are clear.
The PPP can lose the next election. 8 points separate them from defeat. That eight points can be gotten simply by black people turning out in high numbers and the AFC poaching a couple of points. It is clear the PNC will not concede any powers. Why should they be expected to do so? Then, lots of these buggers are going to jail. The only thing between them and wholesale incarceration would be the AFC. I would hope the PNC award the AFC leaders some position in the government and so maintain their allegiances.
October 1, 2013 6:21 PM
The truth? I doubt you know what that is. The AFC is not a mere consortium of people. It is an opportunity gap to stop the PPP thieving. That will always exist since all of t he people are not sheep. A great many can see who are the crooks and understand the nature of interwoven corruption as control strategy in the society.
The PPP are never going to win a majority again. They will find it difficult to maintain the 8 points necessary to maintain a strangle hold on the society and practice their thievery unchecked. Between now and election the sugar industry will not turn around, crime will not be abated and kith and kin nepotism as policy will not be eased. The PPP cannot help themselves. They now have to exist with the curse of being crooks. They will lose.
Never thought I'd see us agreeing
How times have changed.
Opinions are like ass holes, everyone has one. Katahars have been predicting this for decades.
And with that shitty batty face then you have two ass holes. That's a fact.
Such a remarkable intellectual addition to the conversation
I just saw this, after I made similar comments - like minds!!!
Very plausible prognosis BTW. Could very well happen. Benschop's mayorship may be a stretch given the demographics in GT and the baggage he carries in some minds.
Benschop is getting serious foreign assistance.
Very plausible prognosis BTW. Could very well happen. Benschop's mayorship may be a stretch given the demographics in GT and the baggage he carries in some minds.
Benschop might prove the elites of Georgetwon as wrong as de Blasio proved similar groups in NYC. Indeed just as Hammie did in 1994, when he defeated not only the PPP, but also the PNC.
The issue at hand isn't whether Benschop will be agood mayor, just as it wasn't for de Blasio. Neither have experience in running anything.
The issue is that there is a vast swathe of people in south Georgetown (where most of the population lives) who feel excluded from this rich Indian/red people/Portuguese circuit who run things in G/twn, and who have become increasingly arrogant while they do so. People like Brazzington and the Jagdeo crowd, I am referring to.
Benschop will be their worst nightmare, as he is random and unpredictable, and has a PERSONAL score to settle with them. What ever that might be.
The voiceless vote for anyone who acknowledges them, and the rich ignore this group at their peril. Just as a de Blasion win has the Upper East Side quaking in their $3 million co=ops, so might a Benschop victory in Georgetown. When Jagdeo locked up Benschop, and then couldn't find him guilty, so had to let him go, he made him a martyr. As opportunistic and as dishonest as that man might be.
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