Of Popes, Luncheons and White Hats

The Luncheon

The aged Dr Roger Forbes Luncheon has always been seen as a pillar in the PPP/C administration having been at the helm and hierarchy since the Party attained office in 1992 and now in 2015, Luncheon, almost a septuagenarian is again on the PPP/C lists of candidates seemingly ready for another five years in office, if the PPP wins the elections, that is.

At present, Luncheon not only heads the Presidential Secretariat, but he is also the Chairman of the board of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and is also Secretary of the Civil Defence Commission. (Hearing that’s he’s retired but I don’t too well believe that.)

Notice all of those positions? I am sure there are others that I missed, but don’t you dare think that I forgot that he is the Olivia Pope of the PPP/C administration and sometimes he fixes other times he just plain destroys.

Context: Olivia Carolyn Pope is a fictional character portrayed by Kerry Washington partially based on Judy Smith for the political drama television series Scandal. Pope is a Washington, D.C.-based crisis manager who runs her own firm, Pope  & Associates, that specializes in political situations (messes). [Wikipedia.]

The fact of the matter is that over the years, Luncheon has been able to take the PPP out of some of the biggest messes that it has seen. He is  either behind the scenes or at his almost weekly press conferences a man of many words and empty explanations.

Fact is, he speaks a lot of crap, but convincing crap. He can be asked a tough question and you’re like “eh eh ah get he deh, lewwe see how he coming outta this one.” Then he responds with a long winded answer that just leaves you dazed, even though he might not have answered the question, you are still left dazed.

Peculiar? No.

My Questions – White Hats

Will a now old and nimble Luncheon be able to save the PPP come May 11? Is Luncheon wearing his white hat or a red hat? The white hat analogy is taken from the scandal show, which implies that anyone wearing the white hat is doing something for the greater good of the state and perhaps the world.

The answers are not so easy; it’s not clearly discernable whether Luncheon will be able to save his Party of whether he is putting the interest of Guyana above the interest of the PPP. Which is it comrade? PPP or Guyana?

His utterances don’t given one any clear indication where his true loyalty lies? Or have they?

Luncheon has been regurgitating the rhetoric that the PPP/C has used to fuel its elections campaign for the 2015 elections – fear the military or I should correctly say fear the ex-military men present in the APNU+AFC camp and ignore those in the PPP/C domain. Ironic.

But for all I care, the man I once had some respect for, is no more. I lost all respect when a feeble man could mount a political stage and for the sake of political gain use Guyana’s suicide endemic for political gain.

To give them an opportunity is suicide, national suicide we have to drink some gramaxone together,” Luncheon told supporters at a Linden rally? Clearly the white hat has fallen off and he is no longer the Pope. He maybe a Cyrus Beane drunk on alcohol and drugs but he is no Olivia Pope. Because for sure, that wasn’t very ‘Popey.”

But oohh the amount of scandals that Luncheon has been able to quell with his adept lexicon and toothless grin.

Walking on sunshine.

But all of this being said I figure you’re trying to fit the rest of the Cabinet into the same scandal gene pool but before you guys start, let me just say that Bharrat Jagdeo fills the template for Rowan Pope.

But screw the white hat, Luncheon like’s his red hat.

Lunatic Out.