‘Stop bamboozling the people with the current numbing narrative which is piped round the clock on the various channels of the state-owned broadcaster, turned régime propagandists to make a Goebbels proud: Trust us! We have everything in hand! Big Brother is riding to our rescue! Trust us! We know what we’re doing! Bright days are just round the corner... You cannot spin your way out of the mess you’ve landed the country in. Flogging a dead horse doesn’t bring it back to life.
We should begin to prepare our people for the worst. We’ve been doing it so well for years when faced with a menacing tropical cyclone heading our way.
I see severe economic dislocation ahead as the global economy attempts a post- Covid reset, and brings some system change to the architecture of global business and the piping underlying it.
With the gathering storm — an economic one, certainly, but also a social and political one, with the latter dangerously amplified by the regime for base party-political purposes — we should, by now, have hoisted up a Class IV Warning flag on Government House. “