His recent calls for opposition unity while at the same time accusing Winston Dookeran's COP of illegal, even immoral, relationships are the continuing rantings of an unstable politician.
It’s no wonder though. We just have to look at the history of his political behaviour.
The only time he showed any semblance of stability was during the period he served as prime minister.
Before and after his stint in the Prime Minister’s official residence he was like a spoilt child who would rant and rave when he didn’t get his own way.
It seems that if Panday can’t win the seat of power he would mash up everything.
Given the history of his political relationships, nobody could ever hold his party together, in government or out of government. He just can’t keep a united party.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar showed promise as a person capable of succeeding him; he have her no chance.
Dookeran came to rescue him; he gave him no chance either.
No rational, sober-minded, intelligent person could ever conclude that, on the basis of that historical behaviour, there’s any chance Panday could ever change.
What is sad about the situation is that there is a loyal UNC base that continues to put its faith in him in the hope that he could lead them to government.
However, Panday needs to do the decent thing now. He must reflect on his own irresponsible and maverick behaviour, on the widening opinion that he is “tainted goods” (as he himself put it), on his own personal circumstances with his court matters, and recognise he is irrelevant to the current politics and bow out gracefully.
I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist, but I do observe human nature and it appears that Panday has been stable all along... just not as a rational, sober-minded, intelligent person to quote Bickram himself. The description of a spoilt child with a temper tantrum is quite accurate; in this he has been quite stable, and having paid attention through the media for over 30 years, I too see that no rational, sober-minded, intelligent person could ever conclude that, on the basis of that historical behaviour, there’s any chance Panday could ever change.
Which is why I admire Winston Dookeran and his stance of no unity. Regardless of whether he wins, loses, or draws in this election, Dookeran cannot trust Panday, and his efforts at creating a different political party will certainly come to nought. He will also lose all respect he has garnered from his supporters, who are mainly with him because they are disgusted with Panday and disillusioned with Pa-trick.
Should that happen, I may well have to vote for one Kurt Seecharan-Fuentes, the one-man political party calling himself the common sense party of Trinidad and Tobago.
