Delivering his contribution to a PPP congress about a decade ago, Mr. Clinton Collymore, executive member of the PPP, was rewarded with much applause when he said that the PPP would be in office for a thousand years. Perhaps he did not properly appreciate the origins of the prediction or the likelihood and consequences of a regime being in office for so long. Nevertheless, the PPP has lasted in government nearly twice as long as Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich, about which the original thousand year prediction was made. But the fortunes of the PPP have changed so dramatically that should Mr. Collymore or anyone make such a statement today to a similarly sympathetic PPP audience, they would be laughed out of court.
It is precisely this changed reality that has led to the prorogation of parliament. Indeed, one position on the PPP’s prorogation (to which I do not adhere) is that the president
