How does a political party lose two elections in a row then come back to sweep away the competition the third time around? That’s what I wanted to know when the December 11 poll left the SLP decimated.

Where’s my parking spot!”Rumor was that a certain freshly appointed minister paid a visit to his new office on the waterfront immediately after being sworn in and demanded to be shown his space in the government’s parking lot.

What is it about United Workers Party types that makes them so different from the rest of our herd? Surely, I’m not alone when I say Labour’s followers tend to be more out there, more exuberant, more in your face.

Julian Hunte hit the nail on the head on Thursday evening, while being interviewed on TALK. If only politicians, incumbent and otherwise, would realize the value of an educated public at election time, he said, their goal of making a favorable impression on the electorate would be so much easier attained.

The impression may have been created that the St Lucia Labour Party alone had the magnetism to attract a huge crowd. Not anymore. From late Saturday evening the signs were evident that the Richard Frederick launch the next day would set attendance records.

Many, many years ago, there was this show on television: three individuals would each pretend he was a certain individual and it was left to a panel to question them then determine who were the fakes. Then the real Mc Coy was invited to step forward.