David Hinds doesn't care a rat's ass about what others think of him as he has his job in the USA.

I suggest that the AFC looks at what happened to the UF (which formed alliances with both the PNC and the PPP in different eras) and the WPA.

The track record of 3rd parties which join either major party isn't pretty.

But I know that you all think that you are anointed by God so are different.

And of course most rural Indo Guyanese are conservative with their politics too, so you can ignore Hinds as you wish.

ahmmm . . . not the same type of "conservative"

my use is in the tactical sense

  I see cannot move away from the Janet Jagan, Forbes Burnham, and Bharat Jagdeo thinking.

Peopele aren't interested in being told what the politicians are doing.  They want to know WHY.

The PNC was bad in November and so the AFC promised to stay away.  Now it BREAKS its promise to its supporters by joining with the PNC.

Why are they doing this, and what changed since then, and why should these supporters believe that Nagamootoo will protect them against a PNC regime which they have been taught to fear.

And don't think that it is in the long distant past either given that most Indians connect Fineman and the Buxton violence to the PNC. Indeed some even believing that the PNC masterminded it.

And how many people in Guyana have the literacy to digest all the political commentary which is aimed at the intelligentsia?  So if you are relying on SN and KN it is preaching to the choir.

David Hinds is saying that Nagamootoo will have to convince Indians that he will keep the PNC under control.  He might have been able to spin this as the presidential candidate.  How can he do this when he will be the # 2 man, and the Guyana constitution gives all power to the # 1 man?

i answered your relevant question twice . . . but u seem to enjoy watching your word count rise in posts supporting 'arguments' you are having [with yourself] only in your head

Did you get wuk wid de PPP?

The rural Indo voter is conservative how ever you define it. 

Young people don't vote in full numbers any where in the world and in a political environment as damaged as Guyana, this will be even more true.  One need only look at the steep drop in voter turn out from 1997 and 2001 compared to 2011, with 2006 being even worse.

Did you ever stop to consider that the PPP will never hire the type of black man who will quickly expose how racist against blacks they are.

No the PPP is like you. Blacks must suffer in silence, and should they protest they must be damned as being racist.  Like you they love black Uncle Toms who reassure them that " we negroes is OK, we love massa".

DUDE . . . stop it!

your inane digression about Indo voters is not relevant to anything i said

my post simply referenced a feeling that David Hinds was being risk-averse in rejecting a coalition at this time

that's all

David Hinds based his analysis on his assessment of the rural Indian voter, so how can you claim that he is  conservative without addressing the political behavior of this very population?

This is an example of you getting stuck in the mud, and then losing sight of the larger issue.

By tomorrow you will be one of the few left cheering this move as the Indians hear from other Indians and then realize how impossible a job Nagamootoo will have.  He is going to be seen as useless as Sam Hinds is seen by blacks.

The worse of it is that the AFC cannot pull out of this "accord" and save it's theoretical vote.

This really is the "kiss of death."

Even if the AFC decides to pull out, the PPP already has enough ammo from this public embrace to bury them.

The AFC is finished as a parliamentary party among the Indos.

Well its is now good for 3-4 seats, which means that it is over by 2020.  All because the AFC founders have lost interest and handed the keys over to the PPP refugees.  I said so and again I am RIGHT!

I can't wait to hear the AFC strategy behind this blunder. Aside from vague jingoistic nonsense about "unity" and "coalition" or what not.

I really wanna know their principal assumptions in how they get to 51% in 2015 aside from 40 +11 = 51.

The winner of 2015 will be a Majoritarian Government. There is next to no realistic possibility of a hung parliament now. The PPP will hold and recapture it's 2011 vote and now can recover a good chunk of what it lost to the AFC or who stayed home. They have already laid the groundwork for this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before this MONC nonsense. Ministers have personally fanned out to bottom house meetings throughout the country. The PPP have laid the groundwork for victory in 2015 a while ago, They just needed a way to handle dem Coolie Bright Bais and Nagamootoo. Now they have it.

that's an assessment based on my take on the facts; we can disagree . . . what are u trying to salvage in all this?

aaargh!

The winner of 2015 will be a Majoritarian Government. There is next to no realistic possibility of a hung parliament now. The PPP will hold and recapture it's 2011 vote and now can recover a good chunk of what it lost to the AFC or who stayed home.

I've been saying this in private conversations before the merger announcement

And what did the hung parliament achieve? The constitution makes parliament a joke. If there is no coalition the PPP would get back their 48% and rule exactly as they do. The coalition is a risk that has to be taken. We are all well aware of the risks. But at this 11th hr I prefer to focus on messages. I think the APNU-AFC team can win. My cursory sample of Indos living Guyana (I only sample the educated because the base of both parties will stay base) and all of them are voting Granger-Nagamootoo.

I couldn't agree more. All of us Coolie Bright Bais are not enough to make 1 single seat in Parliament. One seat in Parliament is approximately 5,300 votes.

Agree,risk have to be taken, this election

will be decided by the voters mindset,my

hopes is very high for a change of gov't.

It bought one election cycle and with a minority government. Guyana needed one more cycle to get the necessary dynamics aligned - emigration of more Indos, a growing mixed-race electorate and a younger electorate more removed from their parents' biases and hold-over from a bygone era, as well as more PPP thievery - to get rid of this incarnation of the PPP.

Being a junior partner with a still-feared PNC takes away the AFC's strength, that is, peeling away votes from the PPP in Regions 5 and 6. Now this will be blunted.

A hung Parliament is unprecedented in Guyana - they've had it for one cycle. Let it ripen for goodness sake. This is just a plain dumb move by the AFC. The PNC gains any which way and the Freedom House occupants are getting their cigars and champagne ready.

Poor poor Uncle Mose. Cousin Harmon tek away he PM wuk before de swearin in

Yes we have a new Government. Uncle Mose went from Opposition MP with the power to topple a Government to being Granger's part-time Secretary.

Me certain sure there is a kitchen Cabinet now from which he is specifically excluded.

I guess he hedging as he now needs to deal with the wrath of his "constituency" who now realize, the have resurrected the PNC, thanks to however puny number of votes they handed the AFC.

Since back in 2011 baseman saw the AFC as the "skid ramp" for the PNC hop to power.  Time may prove me wrong, but thus far, it is going the way baseman predicted. 

You have a right to your opinion.  Does not mean it is facts.

The closest aid to HE President Granger are Cde Moses, Cde Harmon and Cde Ramjattan and Cde Jordan.  That is your Kitchen Cabinet right there.

Whah is Comradess Moses and Comradess Ramjattan gonna do? Clap de aile roti in dis Kitchen and serve am to H.E. President Granger and Cde Prime Minister Harmon and Cde Minister of Finance Jordan as they run the country?

You in top form this morning.  You got be laughing here.

Thank you.  You started this day for me on the right foot.

Satire is a good this sometimes.

I would humbly advise you add all these comments and do a link show at the Culture Center.  You will get a sold out audience with these jokes of yours.

OIL ROTIE?    LOL

They are all Uncle Toms to Granja. Watch how this plantation owner demand these boys call him massa.

Nuff aile roti, nuff nuff flour fuh putz around with.

They might say 'forget de hile pun de roti..leh abbie use de hile fuh abie self'.

Uncle Tom are those negros who on the plantation sold out to the White Massa.

Are you saying Uncle Moses is now an Uncle Tom?

Clarify Please.

Further, whom did Uncle Moses sold out?

Only himself so far. No intelligent person really thought he cared about Indians.

Now he's Sam Hinds without the electricity portfolio.

Why would you say he sold himself out Shaitaan?

Moses the politician should be in absolute command of his 12 MPs and Ministers and should not have let a "Minister of State" be appointed. Even that trifle of "constitutional reform" got taken away promptly and given to Nigel Hughes and Trotman.

He got capooned real good from Day 1 chap.

On a serious note, if any Indian ever asks me if they should support Moses or Granger or where to go to give the bribe money...I'd send them to the Ministry of the Presidency and say ignore Moses. Moses is of zero consequence. Just as we all expected.

Moses is not in control of anything.  He was given 12 seats in Parliament as promised by Granger for his support in defeating the PPP at the general Elections on may 11th 2015.  There are eight former PNC members among the twelve mps'.  Moses has been conned real good.  he is being searched every time he goes into the PNC head quarters to meet his boss.

As a matter of fact, all Indians are being searched at PNC head quarters when entering the compound.   

Kari, you sound surprised! You mean a man of your stature and vision did not see this coming?

You're an idiot. I know Indos (including myself) that this never happens to. Maybe they search the coolie low lifes like you?