– Some positives from the Pandemic
This working-class, man-in-the street column has survived virtually twenty-seven (27) years. In around year three the late founder and Editor-in-Chief of this newspaper, Mr David de Caires, used courteous, father-like courtesy to explain to me when he felt some contributions to his Op-Ed pages constituted mere waffle. That’s when the piece tended to be vague, incoherent, not too well structured, “wandering around”; “but quite readable” sometimes.
Guess what? This piece today might have to plead guilty to the above. Because my near-retired mind will merely express some “rambling” observations emanating from our “new” Parliament. I make bold to state, however, that they are brief but “readable”. Here goes.
The few televised sessions of the 2020 Emergency Budget sessions I endured interested me a bit and troubled me a lot. My self-imposed “troubles” had to do with standards of parliamentary decorum, delivering of contributions, even perceived character integrity of the members – especially the newcomers; the “veterans” too.
