When I grew up in Rio Claro, the older people used to talk about shame bush. A Patrick Manning revival says there is no shame bush in Parliament. A mouse in the House since his election hiding, Patrick the Peeping Tom overestimated the public’s collective dim-wittedness and amnesia; a photo of an incomplete house his way of making the spy scandal disappear.
Tough luck: no revelation by him could draw attention from the scandalous misadventure of using people’s constitutional rights as a footstool for gaining a vantage point to peer into their closets.
In any event, the PM’s improbable $150 million mansion is dwarfed by Manning’s defeat, prior disgrace and legacy of converting the Treasury into a personal slush fund. A growing number of expensive inquiries, commissions and investigations and the billion-dollar CLICO mess all conspire against Patrick.
Tough luck: no revelation by him could draw attention from the scandalous misadventure of using people’s constitutional rights as a footstool for gaining a vantage point to peer into their closets.
In any event, the PM’s improbable $150 million mansion is dwarfed by Manning’s defeat, prior disgrace and legacy of converting the Treasury into a personal slush fund. A growing number of expensive inquiries, commissions and investigations and the billion-dollar CLICO mess all conspire against Patrick.
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