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<span style='font-size: 14pt'>I think the shock of the General Election defeat, especially for PNP leader Simpson Miller is beginning to subside. Members of her own faction is starting to impact on her that to continue the hostility to PM Golding et al is causing several problems, not least playing into the hands of the other PNP faction of Peter Phillips,Omar Davis etc who want her removed.
She figures that if she starts "talking" with Golding,as he had requested, it would give the public appearance of a "leader of stature".Privately she is still bitter about the defeat in the election debate and more importantly the defeat in the election itself.
She realises has to put this aside and call off the PNP criminals who initiated the wave of violence that has taken place since the elections (this is actually what PNP leader was referring to yesterday when she said, "it's not for Mr. Golding, it's for the Jamaican people and part of serving the people is to ensure peace..".
Apart from trying to subdue the Phillips faction,the other consideration are the impending threat of of public disclosures over the corrupt affairs of Trafigura and those Cuban light bulbs.By Monday Jan 7th Dutch police investigators will be landing in Kingston while local investigators into those light bulbs will be presenting their report quite soon.
It is more than possible that if either of these confirm PNP corruption "Mamma's" credibility and her position as PNP leader will be no more. This much has dawned her now. What to do? She has to go and talk "politely" to Mr Golding with the view of coming to some kind of "arrangement" to lessen the impact of those two scandals on her, personally.
What will Golding do, will he facilitate her? One consideration he may well be contemplating is that he would prefer her as leader than anyone else in the PNP leadership because in any "toe-to-toe" confrontation he can beat her easily! Plus as long as she remains PNP leader, the leadership will continue to be weak because it is riven with hostile divisions. But I think Golding is smarter than that, so he is unlikely to come to any arrangement that would help her out with the Trafigura/Light bulb issue. She made a big mistake of not going to talk with Golding immediately when he publicly gave the call instead of playing the so-called "badhooman" over the petty "termite" issue.
I think her days are numbered and its her own doing because she had the chance as soon as she became PM because she had popular support. She should have fired that serial crook Phillip Paulwell over the Light bulb issue and admitted party corruption over Trafigura. But this is the problem when you are part of corruption, you cannot take a stand against it when your own colleagues are involved. </span>
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