Gail Alexan­der

Sea­son­al spir­it flood­ed yes­ter­day's Par­lia­ment ses­sion, not on­ly via the red at­tire worn by both PP and PNM MPs, but al­so with PP House leader Roodal Mooni­lal's wise­crack­ing which con­ve­nient­ly man­aged to en­com­pass this week's po­lit­i­cal un­der­cur­rents.Hear Mooni­lal dur­ing de­bate: "The op­po­si­tion had two speak­ers in this de­bate last week–the Ch­agua­nas West MP (Jack Warn­er) is a mem­ber of the Op­po­si­tion.

"The Tabaquite MP (Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj) lose about 10 de­posit in elec­tions...he was your (PNM's) plat­form part­ner in St James re­cent­ly, you should be aware of his think­ing."On PNM: "They win three elec­tions and they still in Op­po­si­tion! They win warm-up match­es and they feel they win the Ash­es!"And PNM busi­ness: "All of them on the (PNM) front bench gone, they're all ex­pect­ed to go–they just don't know it yet... but I on­ly or­gan­ise duck cooks and ta­ble beat­ing...not PNM busi­ness," Mooni­lal added.

As with yes­ter­day's Par­lia­ment gath­er­ing, sea­son­al spir­it might have been blamed for cer­tain con­duct else­where re­cent­ly.But in elec­tion high-gear shift­ing, PNM la­dy vice chair­man Pen­ny Beck­les' at­ten­dance at a UNC cur­ry duck lime for in­stance, and PNM leader Kei­th Row­ley's in­clu­sion on the Prime Min­is­ter's South African trip will still al­so be po­lit­i­cal can­non fod­der.

The two lead­ers' unit­ed front per­son­i­fied T&T's own rain­bow im­age at Nel­son Man­dela's fu­ner­al, pre­sent­ing a feel-good "breather" in a year of fierce po­lit­i­cal fight­ing.Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar's de­ci­sion to tote Row­ley along and choos­ing him to view the body with her will boost her lead­er­ship and po­lit­i­cal savyy stocks, af­ter main­tain­ing a pos­i­tive high T&T pro­file via her own uni­ty plat­form over­seas.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers